It was a disappointing result from an Irish perspective, but a good lesson too: namely when you get the ball don't go "Oh dear, I better get rid of this fast" ... far too much passing the ball to avoid responsibility by individual players, but not enough where it mattered. Also far too much of this 'sledgehammer' approach of lobbing the ball far up the pitch and hoping for the best. We can perform reasonably well when someone else takes the initiative and forces us ... again, not the way to go. On the night the Russian team were by far the better team. Probably the best we could have hoped for was to come out of it with some pride, which we did, but that is not good enough.