Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

I was interested to get some direct quotes to find out what Andy Farrell said of the performance, rather than interpretations, so have put together a few quotes below that I thought were interesting and illustrative of his point of view.
From what I can see, he didn't blame the two out-halves explicitly but instead turned the attention onto the whole team.
It's interesting that the main issue seems to be the entire team forcing it under pressure, so who is responsible for getting the team to stop that when it starts to go wrong on the field?
That's the main role of the captain (Doris) I would have thought, to get the team refocused when things go against them, and also every player would have a responsibility in their own roles to execute their core skills well.
It also seems that the main concern was how the team allowed the game to get away from them towards the end by making errors, particularly once New Zealand took the two-point lead with 20 minutes or so to go.

Post-match press conference:
IrishRugby TV: 'We're All Gutted' - Farrell and Doris Post Match

Q: Sum up the disappointment?
"… We didn't manage to put our game out on the field, now obviously the opposition have a big say in that, but I thought we compounded too many errors and almost suppressed ourselves a little bit at times and the energy or the accuracy, wasn't what was needed to win a big test match like that."

Q: How frustrating was the penalty count, after scoring the try gave away a couple in quick succession, and lost a bit of momentum?
"We will get a few answers and clarification on a few of them, but it doesn't really matter whether it was wrong or right; we still shouldn't have suppressed ourselves a little bit you know. It's not right to try and be desperate, chasing your tail, when you've made an error, whether it be a penalty or a dropped ball, and then compound that error with another error and all of a sudden field position is just completely gone, and points come on the back of that. And we've done that a number of times, so we need to fix up our mentality as far as that's concerned, getting back to neutral and getting after the ball back the way we want it. We became a little bit too desperate and on the back of that the energy wasn't what was needed or the accuracy, well both of them obviously."

Q: Perfomance of the ref?
"No excuses … A lot of errors … stop/start, Slow game … We needed to be in charge of looking after our own ends and we didn't do that well enough."

The last 20 seconds or so in this post-match interview clip sums it up nicely.
Q: What were the positives?
"Staying in the fight, certainly after half-time, but, the turning point was the crucial penalty from the scrum that they kicked the goal, and obviously it started going in their favour and we compounded it therefore after."

Virgin Media Sport's post-match interview:
Andy Farrell reacts to defeat to New Zealand

Q: Disappointment over the performance?
"We suppressed ourselves I thought at times with too many back-to-back errors, and that's not right, it's not the feeling that that should happen anyway."

Q: Why so many errors?
"People trying to fix things on their own, a little bit too desperate, sometimes, instead of just being calm enough and understanding how we get the ball back properly, in a way that we want the ball so we can get the right field position, but obviously the opposition have a say in that as well."

Q: Why poor discipline, with so many penalties conceded?
"We'll look at some, I'm sure we'll debate a few with the officials, … but no complaints, … we've gotta be better than that, and we normally are."

Rúaidhrí O'Connor - Irish Independent
Much of the analysis has centred on out-halves Jack Crowley and Ciarán Frawley who both endured a difficult night against New Zealand.
“Game management is not just down to them, it’s down to others helping with the calls and seeing the space, etc. Having said that, if you are playing you would expect yourself to hold on to the ball for more than a couple of phases which we didn’t do at times,” Farrell said, before being asked about the lack of impact from the bench as a whole.
“I think some of them came on a little bit too desperate, there were one or two errors or penalties or whatever, but that wasn’t just the bench, that was throughout the game with the team.”

Thats the last of Henderson in any meaningful game barring injuries....

I suspect alot of International retirements after this Autumn series....POM, Murray, Healy, Henderson......

I think Farrell prob did as much as he could with the selection this week.

No Qs Frawley and Henderson have been dropped. Deservedly so.

I would have also dropped Kelleher and Ryan to the bench. Harsh but just because the LO continues to be a problem.

He's obviously hoping Continuity is important for improvement. I prob would have started Baird at 6.