Frankly it makes little difference who we pick - not because I don't think we can win, we can and we always could but for thirty years we simply haven't had a
team who's mindset allowed them to do it.
Forget about size, skill and speed - we have that it just doesn't show up on the big occasion. What we need is the perfect storm which is what the Aussies always seem to create. That's 17 players, on form, all fit and all understanding the game plan and the ticker to carry it out.
It's not rocket science, when an ordinary player like Cooper can make a real fist of it in the NRL then you know they are not supermen. They are beatable if you believe they are.
In WW2 the British soldier considered the Japanese invincible in the jungle after suffering a number of catastrophic defeats. Then an eccentric officer called Ord Wingate took a group of ordinary (not elite) soldiers and created the Chindits. The effect the Chindits had materially on the Japs was small though more than was expected. However what it did prove was that we could fight just as well in the jungle as the Japs and ultimately we won. It was all about organisation, belief and proving a point.
That said the WW2 generation was made of far stronger stuff than more recent one