Bennett's great talent is to encourage self-belief in his players. To give them confidence.
Many have said it over the years without ever understanding why.
His trick is that he can sell it.
As coaches we can all sit in a team meeting and tell our players that they'll dominate the opposition.
That we've trained harder for longer and that we're better prepared, that our talent is superior.
So that's what you've got to ask yourself: can you sell it?
Bennett can. And he can because he believes in it. That confidence, those beliefs, are then in everything he does.
It all sounds so simple, doesn't it? It's no harder than saying be true to yourself, which we can find in any self-help book. But if you keep peeling back the layers eventually you'll get to the soul of it, which is that it takes great courage to do that. [..]
Bennett wins the hearts of his players first.
With that he gains their faith and, with that, belief.
The rest all falls into place.
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The most noticeable difference was the confidence in the players.
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