Pre-match encouragement takes many forms, but Nick Mallet's one-liner was a classic
, Mallett’s friend and team manager Rob van der Valk remembers Joost van der Westhuizen looking at him with a raised eyebrow. It was a little less than they were expecting.
Mallett later told Van der Valk he thought he had over-psyched the players before the game against Australia, where they had not played as well as they could and had come away with a 14-13 win.It worked. The Boks tackled the hell out of the All Blacks for 60 minutes on a blustery Wellington day in that old open-side stadium that overlooked the Pacific Ocean and Cook Strait. The main stand was incredibly steep and would sway in strong winds.
The Boks were 3-0 ahead through a Percy Montgomery penalty. Ten minutes from the end, a move Henry Honiball had dreamt up at training on Wednesday came together perfectly to put Pieter Rossouw clean through for the winning try.The US Ryder Cup team captain Steve Stricker did just that before his team utterly dominated Europe over the weekend. In the past the team had brought in Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps andThis time around there was no speaker.
“Millie is a sports guy, in each sport he does he is brilliant. Without Millie it wouldn’t have been possible [to have the same level of success]. His kind of a little bit dirty dressingroom talks I cannot do, these things you say in the dressing room that I am not allowed to say in public,” he told the team’s website.Siya Kolisi and Jacques Nienaber will weigh their words carefully on the eve of their final match against the All Blacks on Saturday.
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