I don't think people should panic. I do believe the situation will be better in a week's time or less,

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

That's not a panic situation we just have to keep working hard.

It's not a situation of panic, that's the last thing you want to do. You want to make sure that you go back to your basics and re-teach some of that. We have to take things in stride. I've said all along that this conference can be won with three losses. I'm confident that we can get back on our feet and back to our winning ways.

...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last free from the illusion that time is linear.

In panic, time stops: past, present and future exist as a single overwhelming force. You then, perversely, want time to appear to run forwards because the 'future' is the only place you can see an escape from this intolerable overload of feeling. But at such moments time doesn't move. And if time isn't running, then all events that we think of as past or future are actually happening simultaneously. That is the really terrifying thing. And you are subsumed. You're buried, as beneath an avalanche, by the weight of simultaneous events.

We didn't panic. We have seven seniors. We had been in that situation before. We just had to calm down and be patient. We played 12 people and you could just see them getting tired. We just wore them down.