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Andy Gray
'We wanted to make a statement'published at 22:13 GMT 1 November 2025
22:13 GMT 1 November 2025
FT: Ireland 13-26 New Zealand
Fabian Holland, player of the match, speaking to TNT Sports: "It was a massive game for us. Credit to Ireland, they are a quality side and we are stoked to get the win. Credit to our boys, they were awesome".
On motivations from 2016: "Yeah, it was massive. We knew what that meant to Irish rugby and we just wanted to make a statement at the start of this tour. Hopefully we were able to do that. We talked all week about backing each other up and that's what we did."
It's so nearly worth the wait as New Zealand rip Ireland open with a flowing move and Leicester Fainga'anuku thinks he has scored a cracker, but there's a forward pass and that will be that.
I'm not saying Barrett knows the game is done, but he tries a weird banana kick from the penalty that goes straight instead of into touch, and Ireland have the scrum on halfway.