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Message: [QUOTE="Skathen, post: 3355279, member: 8789"] I still stand by them being intrinsically linked, it's not the only factor in form though, as you point out age and injury take their toll too. But without the right attitude, you'll never peak no matter how good they are physically. For all athletes in any major sport - attitude is often the defining feature as it affects everything from how they train, to how they prepare and how they focus on the event itself. Someone with awesome physical talent and zero attitude is never going to make it to an elite level. Dave Taylor is probably a perfect example of this. If that guy ever got 3-4 seasons of great attitude, he would have been super fit and unstoppable. He was in my mind, the biggest waste of talent I've seen in the last 20-30 years - all because he didn't want to get his weight down and fix his attitude. Re: Corey's games - we'll, a tad hard to do as he only played one season in the last two, some due to injury, some due to be flat out dropped by the coach - perhaps an indication I'm not the only one who views him as not putting in all the time? Re: Not putting in and being found out - true, but the NRL also has a salary cap and limits on numbers of players and the last two years we were at times close to a second string team with half of our squad injured. Sometimes he was getting a run for lack of any real option - when the alternative is blooding yet another zero experience youngster they were gambling on him to come good. [/QUOTE]

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