Gerard Whateley

The whole week, you can't snarl at him.

You've got to embrace and make them feel okay and you've got to get them up and about.

And so resetting the mood was, I think, is critically important and that would come around to some sort of connection type piece that they could run.

And they would have had their week planned out.

They wouldn't have had it planned out for 124-point loss, but they would have had it planned out on what they were trying to achieve.

And I think...

You know, when you do that, you have your connection pieces in place.

You have to move past the result then.

Really, really important to get over that result and move on to being, hey, I need to enjoy my time here.

I need these players to enjoy their time here because if they don't, there is absolutely no way they're going to play well.

They're going to live in fear.

And sometimes you build the fear up too much.

It becomes overwhelming.

Yep.

So performance, you know, remember the cricketers.

I keep going back to your call.

The cricketers, Greg Chappell just kept getting out.

You know, it wasn't because he was a bad baseman.

He just kept missing.

But you don't want to go in there with a mindset, oh, I can't afford to fail.