Gerard

What happens when you come back is how are you going to use it?

The gains were plentiful individually along the way, and we plotted those right throughout the season.

When you've taken a step back, how significant were the gains of the season?

What did you do squad-wise?

You kept... There was clearly some attempts to poach.

It looked like you kept your squad pretty tightly together.

So you referenced Ollie Peake, who's about to go on his first Australian squad as a white ball player.

In terms of his development and exposure, is this a clever way to go about it?

How significant is the determination to have a Victorian batter become a key plank for the Australian test team in the long term, given how rare that has been for 30 years?

And it wouldn't be right to finish our chat without a salute to Scott Boland, who at 37 years of age played an astonishingly good summer of cricket or season of cricket, Shield and international.

Great.

Thanks for coming in.

Congrats on the new contract.

And we'll pick up the journey with you a little later in the year.

Chris Rogers reappointed for two more years as the Victorian cricket coach.

And we start out Thursdays through the eye of the coach with Adam Simpson.

How are you, Simo?

Morning, Gerard.

Well, they don't really look at it.

It's something to think about is you harness all of the energy and some of it, the on-field, a lot of it, the off-field, the angst of fans and the like, and get it reprised as quickly as possible.