Originally Posted by
Sockeye Salmon
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. They don't win because they are somehow special, they are just labelled special because they won. The reality is they won because they were better than the other mob.
I'm with Topdog. All this "we're not mentally tough enough" is bollocks.
Two teams play, one team wins. It doesn't mean one is mentally tougher, it just means one was better. Sometimes it might come down to someone choosing the right option at the right time, maybe it means one was a even bit luckier.
Even if someone blows it, it's not necessarily mental weakness, players stuff up every game, but if your timing is lousy and you make a mistake at the wrong time the calls of "choker" or "mentally weak" ring out. No, he's just done the same thing that a dozen other blokes have done in this match, his mistake just came at the end.