'Don't believe the hype' is Jack Conan's warning to his Ireland team-mates in the wake of their superb takedown of the All Blacks.
Conan was one of seven players who faced New Zealand for the first time last Saturday night.
But what happened after Ireland's last searing display against the Kiwis in Dublin is on the minds of Andy Farrell's charges now.
Beating the All Blacks in November 2018 was the peak moment in a Grand Slam winning year that ended with Ireland named the top team in world rugby.
But the following October, their World Cup dreams turned to dust as the All Blacks stormed to a facile quarter-final victory.
Just as try-scorer James Lowe vowed after Saturday's nine-point win that there will be no "backward step" from the team now, Conan insists there can be no let up.
“People always say 'Winning makes you soft.' It does," the no 8 said.
"Sometimes it can paper over the cracks. You think, 'Oh yeah, we won, we had a great performance'.
“But we left loads of points out there. Some of our lineout stuff wasn't great or we missed bullets and barrels in rucks that we should have got, things like that.
“I suppose for us, it's about not believing the hype. Yeah, we are a good side - but we are not as good as what people are saying.
“I'm sure everyone will be saying how great we are and yeah, it is fantastic to beat those lads, to give the Irish public that massive day, a huge lift.
"But we are not as good as people think we are.
“We need to be better. We need to go and look harder at ourselves and work harder on the basics to be better.
“You can't let winning make you soft. You can't think because we rocked up and went really well, that the same is going to happen next week.”
That is the consistency that Farrell is looking for and that he is now getting.
Saturday's deserved victory was Ireland's seventh in a row, going back to the Six Nations win over Italy in February and following back to back losses against Wales and France.
Up to that point there were only flashes of what the head coach was trying to implement in his side's play.
But it is coming out more and more now and the All Blacks couldn't sufficiently respond to a three-try salvo that in reality could have been five or six.
Conan said: "We spoke about it on Thursday night.
"Johnny (Sexton) said, 'This is a chance to write your name into Irish history, into rugby history, to be one of the few people that have ever beaten the All Blacks'.
“Long after all of us hang up the boots, that memory and that legacy will bond us.
"It's something when you're 60 or 70 that you can tell your grandkids about. That's why we do it.
"The atmosphere, I have never ever experienced something like that. From the anthems to when Caelan (Doris) scores that try to Tadhg Beirne making that turnover right at the end.
"The noise, you feel the crowd, it was like they were standing on the pitch.
"It was the greatest experience, atmosphere-wise, I have ever been a part of. It was absolutely incredible - it made the hairs on your neck stand up, it was class.
"It was just the fact that the crowd was there for 80 minutes. You heard them throughout.
“It gives you such a lift, it gives everybody energy. You live off that. You get bigger, you get stronger. You become more defiant as you hear that noise.
“It's so special to have my girlfriend there, a load of my mates. Sadly my parents couldn't be there, but it was just so, so special.
“They're the things you miss over the last few years."
The Lions star added: "On the biggest days, having the people who mean the most to you and being able to share it, that's what makes you tick.
“The faith that they put in you and all the sacrifices they make along the way with you, it's not easy on the personal side of it sometimes, the highs and lows of it all.
"Repaying those people with big days out is why we do it. It's unbelievably special.”
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