Gerard Whateley

Australia's played a role in some of that, and we pick up our Socceroos conversation.

No sporting superiority here, no snobbery.

If you are Australian and you are following the Socceroos, you are welcome to a view on the team.

Glorious one week, and it was just a bit disappointing the next.

Hello to you, Crash.

G'day, Gerard.

Yes, that was a nice little tweet you had, text there you had about the Brisbane Lions.

I just sensed that punters that back the Lions are just about ready to have a sneaky go and the feeling that they're still hiding in the bushes and ready to pounce.

And we often talk about that Hawthorne way of the 1980s when they were just lobbing, lobbing, lobbing, and then go bang.

All right.

What did you think of the Socceroos?

Well, do you know what?

I thought it was an interesting case study in sports psychology.

I really did.

Because it was at 5 a.m., Gerard, and I didn't want to wake up my household, I watched it with the sound down.

And because of that, I was really taking particular interest to body language and everything.

And we used the word frozen in our headline, and it was – the occasion was – that was perfect.

The occasion was just too big for them, wasn't it?

From Tony Popovich down, like, he looked like a guy who had a thousand-yard stare.

He really did, and so did the players.