Phil Davis

And so three years post two and a half years post, I'm still seeing my same cycle.

And that level of continuity is fantastic.

And

And then during my career, I had a sports psych who was there on all the major tent poles of the week.

So first day of the week, main training, captain's run, and then game day.

I always had that.

That never changed through my career.

Even post COVID, we always...

had someone there so maybe other clubs had cut it back but I always had the two figures running together and and I think what we're talking about here feels like it's just I'm not sure exactly how they're going to classify that because to me they're two very different things Joe they can be intertwined but I do think there's something here where

We've got to make sure we're having the right care around us and not just a psychologist because that might not hit the mark.

I think it's definitely helpful.

I think definitely when it comes to performance, because I think, you know, what we're seeing here and how it's been reported here with Elijah is how does that stack up with like, you know, that performance anxiety, you know, that behavior that is not really coherent with normal behavior if it wasn't having a mental health episode.

I think they're largely linked because a lot of the work you do with a performance psychologist, Jared is around, well, how do you handle the adverse feelings that come around because of the game, because of a particular moment?

And yeah, you cover that off with sort of like a more clinical psychologist.

But from a performance psychology, it's like, okay.

So for me, I used to, more back end of my career, get quite nervous.

In the warm-up 45 minutes before the game, I used to like get like my hands, I used to sort of like feel like I lost touch in my hands a little bit.

And so what I used to do was I used to go and get a ball

And I'd go to a goalpost and I'd bounce the ball against the goalpost just for a little bit and then I'd be fine.

But that was like a cue to sort of match an action with a feeling to do it.