When you lose a game and then you have a day off afterwards, many people ask, ‘What are you doing?’ Their reaction is to get the players in and push them after a bad result, but this is wrong. The reverse is true. When you lose, of course you have to analyse what went wrong and how to address it next time, but you have to put that game behind you. You have to try to forget the defeat as soon as possible so you’re in the right frame of mind for the next game. It is at times like this that the president and the press will begin to say, ‘You’re too weak, you’re too nice. The players aren’t
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