Robbie Henshaw: 'We need to be calmer and we need to be clinical'

FOCUSED: Robbie Henshaw during Ireland rugby squad training at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

For the more experienced among this Ireland squad, the 2018 series in Australia has become hugely relevant in the wake of last Saturday’s opening Test defeat to New Zealand.

It was four years ago at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium that the Wallabies took a 1-0 lead after the opening Test and the Six Nations champions found themselves with backs against the wall heading to Melbourne for a decisive, make or break second encounter.