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Schmidt: Intensity unfamiliar to some Ireland players

Monday, October 19 2015 by SNTV
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    SOUNDBITE: (English) Joe Schmidt, Ireland head coach:

    "As difficult as it is to be going out of the World Cup at this stage, I think it was a fantastic Argentinean performance and I think it was a performance from us that the players will learn from. There's a lot of players who have never ever been in a match of that intensity and hopefully that learning experience will offer something in the future. I could tell you the dressing room is very disappointed and it is difficult but unfortunately that's the nature of the game."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Joe Schmidt, Ireland head coach:

    "I think on any given day we have seen Northern Hemisphere teams compete with Southern Hemisphere teams. For us, we've got to be at our very best to be competitive. Even if they are a little bit below par they can still be incredibly dangerous against us."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Jamie Heaslip, Ireland captain:

    "To go 17-nil down very quickly in the game is tough and you really have to kind of get the collective together and kind of forge ahead and try and get back into the game, which we did, and got to 23-20, nearly 23-all. And then it could have been a very different game. But when you're chasing the game against a side like that who are so well organised, have athletes peppered throughout the squad, especially out wide and can punish your slightest mistake, it's always going to be quite hard - and you saw that in the way they took those tries at the very end of the game."

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