Ange Postecoglou

But you can't because it comes back to you tenfold and it distracts you from what's happening.

I think what Virgil's saying is that maybe today's players don't understand or ex-players don't understand exactly how much that criticism or whatever it is gets amplified in today's world and what that fuels.

I still think you have to have criticism.

You have to have scrutiny.

If somebody's not playing well or makes a mistake, whether it's a manager or a player, you need to be called out because that's how you improve.

And there wouldn't be a player or manager on earth who says, well, actually...

You know, when they're by themselves, he's right, I'm mucked up there.

But it's just the saturation of it, it does affect young people.

Maybe, or maybe it goes the other way, which I've found, as I've seen a couple that have just come out of it, who...

try and become even more sensationalistic, if that's a word, to get traction.

Yeah.

Because they know what's going to get them headlines.

Yeah, yeah.

And he's a really mature guy.

He takes it.

He does understand it, but...

A lot of them, and I'm sure you guys, they're very young, mate.

Look at them and I just think, in life terms, they're very young people that still got so much to learn and try and understand.

It's not just them, it's the people around them because they say, oh, get off social media and then somebody in their network will say, oh, did you hear what he said about you?

Have a crack back and they'll go, oh.