All Out Rugby broadcast Jake White’s team talk after the victory against Australia.
“At 16-10, I could see in your eyes that you actually believed you could win this game. I just said to someone after the game, ‘That’s how you win a World Cup’. Put that into your memory bank. That’s how you win a World Cup.
“You’re going to be against the wall sometimes and you have to look at each other and say ‘listen, we can pull this one out’.
“Honestly, I give you my word, you wouldn’t have won that game four years ago. I promise you. So well done to you guys. I’m really proud of you.
“This is hard. This is Test rugby guys. This is as hard as it gets.
“Those guys have won two World Cups and now the momentum’s broken. Now they haven’t won a game for eight years in South Africa.
“So I want you to understand this is a good team (we have). This is a team that is going to win the World Cup.
“I’m not just saying that to win you over. You’ve just come back from 16-10 down to win the Test match. You can’t coach that. Where is the manual that coaches you that? Tell me.
“How do you come back with eight minutes to go and then you get two drop kicks and then you score in the last minute? Who coaches you that?
“That is what I want you to believe. As soon as you decide as a group that you can do it, then it becomes easy.
“I want you to compliment yourselves. It was unbelievable, but I never doubted you.
“You’ve got the All Blacks next week. Now it gets even harder, but we get born to play rugby against New Zealand. That’s why we get born in this country.”
Stirring stuff!
A fascinating look behind the scenes.
Put that one in the memory bank??? Well done, well played etc etc… However, it could so have been a different result! Too close for comfort – the rematch in a few weeks time will be one to watch!!!
Quite frankly, I don’t need this amount of stress – my health is failing -> Much like the Bokke, I may not make the WC Final!!!