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<blockquote data-quote="Gay-Guy" data-source="post: 121876"><p>They say sports at the highest level is 90% mental and 10% physical.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I would fully agree with that!</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>The AB's only have a slight edge on the other top nations with the physical. NZ's top 15 players DO NOT TOTALLY their outstrip Aussie, S.A, English, French couterparts. Ireland and Wales also have some good personnel.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>In '95 Wynne Gray said in the herald the morning of the final that "man for man" the All Blacks were a better team than the Springboks. I would say this was true with maybe the exception that Jeff Wilson was not fully at his peak in his career against Chester Williams. Even the young and powerful Os du Randt struggled against Olo Brown, Francois Pienaar had nothing skill wise on Kronfield, Joubert was a rolls royce but was outplayed at the tournament by the dynamic Glen Osbourne, Mulder and Le Roux were no where near as classy on attack as Little and Bunce, Small was fantastic but was too much of his namesake against Lomu, Andrews looked predictable against Zinzan Brooke, Strydom and Wiese weer not mobiole enough......the springboks of '95 were a nuggety team but not in the class of the AB's that year....</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>....yet strangely they won......</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>The only RWC the AB's did not have the talent to win was '91. Australia had some great stars amongst them who were in the form of their lives.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>The winner of the 2007 RWC will be.........</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>.....the team who <span style="font-size: 10px">mentally</span> WANTS it the most!</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>In '87 NZ wanted it more than France in that final.....the AB's were in killer mode which everyone could see from the quarter final with Scotland onwards to the final whistle against France and which lasted for another 3 years. In '91 Australia wanted it the most with their total faith in their skill levels led by Horan and Campese. In '95 South Africa wanted it more with their never say die defence.....thats all they had actually lol! In '99 Australia wanted it more when they realised that France had played their winning card a week before against the AB's and had slipped into cautious mode. In 2003 England wanted it more.....well that was plainly obvious at the start of the year that england were the toughest team mentally despite not having the stars that other teams had.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Every team wants it badly but only one team will have the "correct" frame of mind when it comes to sudden "death". The team with the mental toughness to do whatever it takes is not neccessarily the best team........unfortunately we may not know until sudden death time comes and we see the REAL AB team show themselves amd what they are made of. This is also true of every other nation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gay-Guy, post: 121876"] They say sports at the highest level is 90% mental and 10% physical. I would fully agree with that! The AB's only have a slight edge on the other top nations with the physical. NZ's top 15 players DO NOT TOTALLY their outstrip Aussie, S.A, English, French couterparts. Ireland and Wales also have some good personnel. In '95 Wynne Gray said in the herald the morning of the final that "man for man" the All Blacks were a better team than the Springboks. I would say this was true with maybe the exception that Jeff Wilson was not fully at his peak in his career against Chester Williams. Even the young and powerful Os du Randt struggled against Olo Brown, Francois Pienaar had nothing skill wise on Kronfield, Joubert was a rolls royce but was outplayed at the tournament by the dynamic Glen Osbourne, Mulder and Le Roux were no where near as classy on attack as Little and Bunce, Small was fantastic but was too much of his namesake against Lomu, Andrews looked predictable against Zinzan Brooke, Strydom and Wiese weer not mobiole enough......the springboks of '95 were a nuggety team but not in the class of the AB's that year.... ....yet strangely they won...... The only RWC the AB's did not have the talent to win was '91. Australia had some great stars amongst them who were in the form of their lives. The winner of the 2007 RWC will be......... .....the team who [SIZE=2]mentally[/SIZE] WANTS it the most! In '87 NZ wanted it more than France in that final.....the AB's were in killer mode which everyone could see from the quarter final with Scotland onwards to the final whistle against France and which lasted for another 3 years. In '91 Australia wanted it the most with their total faith in their skill levels led by Horan and Campese. In '95 South Africa wanted it more with their never say die defence.....thats all they had actually lol! In '99 Australia wanted it more when they realised that France had played their winning card a week before against the AB's and had slipped into cautious mode. In 2003 England wanted it more.....well that was plainly obvious at the start of the year that england were the toughest team mentally despite not having the stars that other teams had. Every team wants it badly but only one team will have the "correct" frame of mind when it comes to sudden "death". The team with the mental toughness to do whatever it takes is not neccessarily the best team........unfortunately we may not know until sudden death time comes and we see the REAL AB team show themselves amd what they are made of. This is also true of every other nation. [/QUOTE]
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