But he has to do it week in, week out and not just against the big teams. He has to raise his game against everyone.

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

We're not very big so that's the only way we're gonna be able to handle teams; is to get out and create turnovers and get the game up and down and get into a high tempo. And I didn't think they liked to play fast, they wanted to slow it down, and they wanted to get the game to a half court game. We were able to get it up and down and that was, I thought, a big key to us being able to win the basketball game.

We fell apart a little bit; we can't really dwell on it. We have a big week coming up. We're just trying to focus on those games.

Carl did an excellent job. We'll start over this week. With any of our backups, special teams are a big part.