Phil 'Gus' Gould

We deal with it a lot.

We talk with it a lot.

Yeah.

You have to, right?

You have to.

Has that made players less coachable?

I recently went out.

I do a bit of work with –

one of the clubs who does work in schools, going out and talking to schools and parents.

I went out to Granville Boys High School the other night, which is a very multicultural area out in that area, and they have their issues and that sort of thing.

And this was a whole lecture from the police and the education department and the school's teachers and all that thing, talking about mobile phones, talking about technology.

You go and sit in a cafe, you go and sit at the airport, you go and sit anywhere,

And everyone's got their face in a screen like that, looking at a mobile phone.

What are they accessing?

And you know as well, the algorithm, what it throws up on you and what it knows about you and how it's going to influence you.

And there are some extraordinary documentaries around the effects of this.

And our footballers are not immune to it in any way.

Our coaches are not immune to it in any way, shape or form.

That's why they need a great support system around them and

people around them to prioritize what they should be seeing, what they should be hearing, and what they should be thinking about, and how they deal with that noise.