IRELAND coach Joe Schmidt admitted: “We’ll just have to dust ourselves off. It’s nothing that we didn’t expect.
“They’re an unbelievably athletic and talented team. The last time they played here they beat the All Blacks.
“That’s the level and we’ve got to be able to compete at that level and get the margins to fall our way, albeit they were pretty skinny today. “With 14 minutes left we led 9-8 but you gotta lead after 80 minutes.”
Australian coach MichaelCheika said: “We were far from perfect but work ethic got us thro...