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We sat down with former Wallabies Captain Nick Farr-Jones to discuss the problems facing the Australian team in 2017.
The 1991 World Cup-winning skipper identified a hatred of losing and enduring mental toughness as the key factors that helped Australia to emerge as one of the great Rugby nations.
However, he believes the modern-day absence of these qualities, demonstrated in both Super and Test rugby, is the driving force behind the Wallabies poor performance.
“You see them after the game, shaking hands with the opposition, smiling sometimes when they see someone. I don’t get it… I don’t get that,” he said.
Farr-Jones shared his experiences playing alongside the passionate faces who dominated rugby in the golden age of the sport.
“You’d see it in people, the older people around you, how steely they were, how tough they were. The game was never over, the fight was always on,” he recalled.
He explained how the Wallabies seem to lack the enthusiasm and dedication that defined his generation of the sport, adding that “losing test matches got me in the solar plexus, and got me for a long time”.
Check out the segment in the viewer above, or watch the interview in full over here.
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