Ireland 13-23 New Zealand: Ireland must get ‘back on the horse’ after All Blacks loss says Finlay Bealham

Ireland prop Finlay Bealham says there can be “no sulking” from the side in the aftermath of their 23-13 defeat to New Zealand on Friday.

The All Blacks ended Ireland’s unbeaten home run after 19 games in a game where Will Jordan scored the only try in the second half.

Ireland have further games this November against Argentina, Fiji and Australia.

“Everyone is obviously bitterly disappointed,” said the Connacht man.

“Look, there’s still three games to go in this series, and we’ll dust ourselves off.

“We’re not feeling sorry for ourselves, we’ll analyse it properly and we’ve another big Test next week. Back on the horse.”

Head coach Andy Farrell said the Ireland players were “sombre” in the immediate aftermath of the defeat, but with Argentina in Dublin next weekend, Bealham said the mindset quickly shifted to improving upon what was an error strewn performance.

“It was a disappointing dressing room,” he added.

“It’s always tough to lose at home. We got into a huddle and just said ‘no sulking’.

“We’ll get on with it and learn from the mistakes we made. We have an incredibly tough test match next Friday and we’ll look to fix the stuff we can be better at.”