Gary

Breakfast with Gary and Tim.

It's alright.

Yeah, it was a good relief.

It's been a while since we've lost three games in a row.

I think that happened at the start of 2024, so an unusual circumstance for us, fortunately.

I felt good after the Fremantle game, to be honest.

We finished that game really well.

I think we had 28 shots on goal that night and a lot of inside 50s, so we did quite a bit right and went down by 25 points against Fremantle.

the informed team of the comps so we took a little bit of heart from that sort of the day after that 3-0 game I rang or called up with every player individually just to find out how they were going with it all and from those conversations it sort of became pretty clear to me that we needed to lighten up a little bit around the place and just have some pretty simple focuses coming into the Gold Coast game and

That's what we did and it seems as if that has worked and hopefully we can continue our form.

on from the way that we played on Saturday because we did play a very good game, I thought.

No, no, they all call me back even if I can't get them straight away.

And that particular day, our reserves were playing down here at our training base.

And so I was able to catch up with a few of them in person.

But it is a significant exercise.

It takes you a few hours to do it.

But it's just a good way to tap into your group.

And, you know, I could sense after having spoken to them that there was an element of them just trying too hard, which you can do in sport, trying to live up to their reputation, et cetera, et cetera.

So, yeah, it was a week of taking a little bit of pressure off them and

having a little bit more fun.