Murray said it was something he struggled with in the old three-game tours of New Zealand that would have preceded the inaugural Nations Championship this year.<\/p>\n
“When you’ve lost two matches, the last week is long. It’s hard and it builds pressure,” added Murray.<\/p>\n
“But on the flip side, when you are driving in on the bus to Eden Park in the evening and it’s all lit up with the floodlights, it’s special, cool and it ignites something exciting.<\/p>\n
“There’s nerves, but then there’s also, ‘jeez this is where it’s all at, this is the All Blacks away’.”<\/p>\n
Paul Marshall, who toured New Zealand in 2012 with Ireland but did not feature against the All Blacks, said it was “suffocating”.<\/p>\n
“It was funny, we stayed just outside Auckland in Takapuna and there was a wee tennis club across the way from the hotel,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was all new to me being on an Irish tour and being in New Zealand, and there was a sign that said ‘bored of rugby? Try tennis’. <\/p>\n
“I couldn’t believe it, just every shop you went into everybody was talking about rugby.<\/p>\n
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