"But the guys have learned and are adapting well".
Nowell bagged himself two tries, the latter coming from a brilliant break from Daly down the left wing that saw the ball recycled on the 22 and fed to the Exeter Chiefs back who finished superbly, and it was the first time on this tour that the back three - completed by Liam Williams - have hit top gear to devastating effect.
"It's not like it's new", he said, adding: "There're a lot of teams defending like this in Super Rugby now".
He also pointed to the fact that the Lions midweek side has restored some pride as a group and also the perception in New Zealand and about the ability of the players.
Similar to the much hyped Crusaders, the Maori All Blacks were a major disappointment, not because they lost but for the way they went down. "That's about enjoying rugby and enjoying playing with the ball in hand". "If I got anywhere near it, it would be unbelievable".
"They were able to dominate us in a number of areas".
"They are experts in electronic surveillance, to ensure that we are not being looked at or listened to", Lions chief executive John Feehan told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"This week we are bad at something else, and next week I can guarantee we will be useless at something else next week, so that's how I'm treating it".
The clinical performance came on the back of what many expect to be Gatland's preferred test team suffocating the Maori All Blacks into submission in their 32-10 victory in Rotorua on Saturday.
"At one point captain Rory Best went up to Garces and said, 'when we put those little dinks in behind them they're body checking.' The Lions are fed up with this sort of nonsense, as the whole of rugby should be, and have chose to make a concerted protest". "We have always said how hard this tour was, we've known how tough the schedule is and the quality opposition".
"This is unlike anything that's been taken on before".
"Someone like Jack Nowell, it just hadn't happened for him in the first couple of games", said Gatland after the win over the Chiefs.
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"We have demonstrated that. We've got a healthy squad all chomping at the bit".
"We were apparently bad scrummagers last week", Foster said.
Asked what Test selection would mean to him, Daly replied: "It would be unbelievable; at the start of the year I didn't think I had a chance". Not everyone agrees with that opinion.
"The selection meeting will be tough and that's the way we want it".
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The New Zealand-native should have had another when Tommy Seymour broke through the gain lane to set up what looked like a certain try, but the Scot's woeful pass was knocked on by the Ireland worldwide.
"From a defensive point of view, we are getting stronger and stronger".
"But on Saturday we're up against the best team in the world in their own back yard, a place they haven't been beaten at since 1994".
The Lions head coach will sit down to pick the men to meet the All Blacks after being given food for thought by the Lions' crushing win over Waikato Chiefs earlier today.
According to English winger Elliot Daly, however, the management have not yet addressed the Eden Park factor.
Asked if that substitution means he has done enough to warrant Test squad selection, Daly however replied: "You never think that".
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