O’Toole had been promoted to Eire’s matchday squad for the All Blacks recreation after Tadhg Furlong’s harm meant Finlay Bealham began at tight-head prop.
It was a giant recreation for O’Toole, who didn’t characteristic in the summertime’s two-Check sequence in opposition to the Springboks in South Africa after making only one look off the bench on this yr’s Six Nations.
Whereas the Drogheda native says being concussed so quickly after being launched was “actually robust”, he insists he wouldn’t do something in another way had been he to seek out himself in the identical state of affairs.
“Whenever you’re developing in opposition to the All Blacks, particularly at residence and the way huge of a recreation it was, you come on and inside two minutes you get a scrum, a carry and you are feeling such as you’re within the recreation after which impulsively you are out,” mentioned O’Toole.
“Sadly, I do not bear in mind an excessive amount of after it. Watching it again is clearly fairly disappointing.
“That is rugby, with out being too tacky or no matter. That is the sport, that is what occurs. [I’ve] most likely watched it over 100 instances to see if I might have performed something in another way however sadly you may’t actually.
“I simply bought caught. As I mentioned, I want I might’ve performed one thing in another way however I do not suppose I might have performed something in another way if I had it once more.”