Gerard Whateley

Luke Hodge, Thursday night in Perth, Fremantle and Hawthorne.

Try McCafe's Drink Range.

Let's head to the newsroom with Nath.

I think there's a bit of PTSD that goes on with these things once you've lived through coach sacking, coach sacking, coach sacking, and now there just seems this grim march to the next coach sacking.

Oh, I'm glad I asked.

Oh, you can't.

I didn't quite realise we were going to end up there.

And that plays to your demeanour and the way that you played your career.

Yes, well, Mickey Arthur deliberately leaked the game plan for South Africa because he thought it would get into their heads, and it did.

And, Gerard, it's funny how when a game plan like this leaks out, it does actually get a level of mental penetration, which is quite unique.

Adam Gilchrist was playing for WA when John Buchanan left a game plan in a McDonald's.

in Perth in a Shield game and it got out.

And the local paper went crazy on it, the West saying, hey, would you like a Queensland game plan with your Big Mac?

But Adam Gilchrist said it got through to him.

Like he was consumed by it a little bit, you know.

But there's been some funny ones over the years, hasn't there?

I remember Chris Cairns against New Zealand when Australia leaked a one and it called him mentally fragile.

Everyone was waiting to talk to Chris Cairns.

And he came up with a beautiful reply.

He said, hey, of course I'm meddling fragile.