What Eyre can crow about though is the Taniwha led from start to finish in a real spectacle for the hundreds of fans who turned out, many speechless afterwards.
The result for Eyre though wasn't one of surprise, saying the team believed they could do it after an intense week of training.
"We weren't actually all that far away last week. We just needed to go back to basics and believe in each other.
"The guys were a lot harder on each other at training this week. There were a few [heated moments] that broke out at training this week which shows they wanted it, and it helps having locals."
From the get-go the Taniwha were on fire, Awanui winger Jone Macilai swooping on a dropped ball from Wellington to sprint over and dot down eight minutes in. Macilai's try, which was his first in the ITM Cup, was met with cheers from the home crowd as they enjoyed what they thought might be a rare scoring play.
However, that was just the start. Nearly 20 minutes later Macilai was back in the points again after Brook Gilmore stole a ball out of a Wellington player's hands and popped it up to the Fijian to sprint in for his second.
Sitting 15-0 up heading into halftime you could sense the panic in the Wellington camp, turning down shots at goal in a bid to catch up.
After the half Northland looked just as calm and collected as they had in the first half, withstanding a barrage of Wellington attacks inside their 22.
Next to cross for Northland was Hora Hora centre Warren Dunn, who finished off the first of two 100m tries.
With the Taniwha defence standing tall, Wellington ran out of options and popped a chip over, which Macilai reeled in before beating two defenders on the touchline and chipping it over Wellington's fullback. On hand to regather the chip was Dan Hawkins who handed it to a rampaging Dunn and he outsprinted a Wellington defender to score in the corner.
Again Macilai played a major part in the next try, this time to Dan Pryor, as he beat a defender from first receiver before feeding the ball on the inside to Pryor.
Northland's second 100m try was the final play of the game and came from turnover ball as Wellington looked to grab a consolation try.
From the turnover, it was spread wide to Kara Pryor - who is a flanker but was on the wing as a replacement for Filipo Nakosi - who pinned his ears back and offloaded the ball inside to his brother, Dan, he too pinning his ears back and scoring out wide.
Wellington managed a consolation five-pointer to fullback Jason Woodward towards the end, but it would have given their coach Chris Boyd little comfort.
Northland 35: (Jone Macilai 2, Warren Dunn 1, Dan Pryor 2 tries; Dan Hawkins 2 pens, 2 cons). Wellington 5: (Jason Woodward try). HT: 15-0.
