New Zealand defence holds on to beat Ireland

New Zealand beat Ireland 28-24 in their World Cup quarter-final

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00:00 "Sometimes the sweetest victories are when your opponent plays really, really well and

00:05 tests you to the limit. We didn't want to play Ireland with two yellow cards and Ireland

00:13 have got a big record of winning big games when the opposition get cards and they often

00:18 do get cards when they play Ireland for some remote reason, I'm not sure why. But at the

00:23 end of the day we played a lot of that game with 14 men and I couldn't be more proud of

00:29 the effort of Sam and the players and I thought we looked in control of it and it felt good."

00:35 "What an incredible finish to a Test match. 37 phases, it's almost as long a period to

00:44 defend that I've heard of or witnessed. The ability for the boys to just keep turning

00:50 up for each other. I think obviously it's pretty clear that defence probably won us

00:56 the Test match tonight."