This is a not a cry normally associated with Australian sport - but a leading light says their rugby players aren't cocky enough. In a very un-Australian moment, commentator Rod Kafer believes an inferiority complex is at the heart of a disastrous run of trans-Tasman results. Advice is flowing thick and fast for beleaguered Australian rugby, and Brumbies icon Kafer has joined the fray urging it to stop "aping" New Zealand. Kafer also believes that constant put downs of the Australian teams have seeped into the players' psychology. It's almost in the Australian psyche now, that deferment to New Zealand, and it becomes self-perpetuating."

Source: New Zealand Herald April 03, 2017 20:03 UTC