Gerard Whateley

We try to look for some positive stories.

We get to Tuesday and Wednesday and then we go into Remind.

We've got to see a better performance from North Melbourne this week.

That's what we've got to see.

You know, so it's a similar pattern that, you know, I'm lucky to be a part of both now.

It's a similar pattern they have to go to but...

Really critical week for Clarko.

I would say it's a critical week for Clarko to do his absolute best work, and there would be no one better at being able to, you know, do those things I said, review, reset, remind, and then earn respect back.

So I think, you know, I think it's a challenging week, but sometimes they can be your best weeks, and they can be the most satisfying weeks, particularly, I mean, if he can get his team to turn up and play really strong footy against the West Coast this week and come away with a nice, strong victory...

We'll quickly forget it.

We won't always forget because we'll remind them if it comes up again of having another terrible performance.

But we'll quickly move on to, no, they're progressing and they're going okay.

Yeah, we had this great chat, Gerard, didn't we, over the weekend once it went on and with the King's birthday trip that we had.

I got it back to sort of four R's.

The four R's, I reckon, you have to remember when you're in this situation.

The four R's to me was you need to review.

You need to reset, you need to remind and you need to earn respect.

That's probably what you need to do in that week.

So if you go through it and we start from the review part of the week for Clarko and his team, he has to review and he has to review harshly and he has to remind the team really closely there.

But the review part there is probably the first quarter and a half of that game.