'Big Bird' says Windies won't lay off

West Indies manager Joel Garner says Australia's recent poor form in Perth does not mean the tourists will give anything less than their best in the third Test starting on Wednesday.

India beat the home side by 72 runs in mid-January, 2008 and Mitchell Johnson's first innings haul of 8 for 61 could not save Australia from a six-wicket defeat by South Africa this time last year.

The man known as "Big Bird" impressed on reporters that while his players are confident heading into the final Test, they are focussed on the task at hand no matter what history says.

"If you are going to play in a cricket game and you're not confident in your ability, or what you got to do, then don't bother turning up," he said.

"But we have to be conscious of what is needed and how we go about doing our business.

"I don't really look at the records too much because you tend to get carried away."

He said the Australians are always going to be a threat, no matter where the game is played.

"I know Australia want to also play to the best of their ability and continue in their winning mode," he said.

"Like everybody else, we'll be very wary of them.

"I won't say we'll be overawed, but we will be going to compete."

Sticking Together
Garner says he will be expecting a lot from all his players.

"Every member of the team is important," he said.

"There's no 'I' in team if you want to put it that way.

"It is very important that all the fellas come out and play to the best of their ability. I think that if you have a collective effort on the part of the players then yes, you will get a result."

He said inexperienced spinner Sulieman Benn needed to keep a brave face on a WACA pitch that will follow tradition as a paceman's paradise.

"I think that was a wake-up call for him - one day on top, the next day not there, but you have to keep fighting," he said.

"I would say he is also an important member of the team and you have to contribute to the overall scheme of things.

But Garner was coy on any advice he had dealt out based on his own playing experiences at the WACA.

"I would be telling the rest of the world if I told you," he joked.

"I've played on some dead tracks, I've played on some lively ones.

"I think you have to get what you can out of the wicket and if you can't, you keep plugging away anyway."

Future Driven
Garner said the team showed positive signs that it had made some impressive steps forward together between its capitulation in Brisbane and its draw in Adelaide.

But he warned against looking too far ahead instead of concentrating on the present.

"It is always good to look at what happened in the past and look forward to the future," he said.

"We've built some momentum coming out of the first Test into the second, we've made one or two mistakes but I think we could have done things a little differently.

"It is important that we go and play cricket in a positive manner and keep looking forward, as opposed to looking to far ahead.

"It is 15 sessions of cricket that we've got to play and if we can play 15 sessions of cricket and be competitive then the possibility also exists that we can get a result."