Bullet
Colin Calderwood
I think good coaches can take it on fairly quickly and apply his specific requirements. Often they have been a manager as well as a coach, so they are talented and can adapt.
From football.london
The training sessions are more layered with tactical information with the football foundations now laid. This is a different Tottenham team to the one that ended the last campaign and the results just haven't matched the displays thanks to poor finishing, which will change as Postecoglou gets his strikers back and sharp.
For the Australian, it's all about shutting out the external noise and focusing on the process.
"Firstly, you can say, well if we lost the other night we would have been in crisis, but if we won our first game, I’d probably be sitting here and people would have been saying 'can you win a title this year', and both of them are just not the reality of my world," he said on Friday. "I have always been pretty good at staying clear-eyed and focused about what is important.
"To me, in terms of what I’m trying to build, I think the external noise, whether it’s valid or not, I just find it’s a massive distraction to what you’re trying to do. I learned along the way, in both ways, whether things are going well or not going well, not to let that external noise distract me from what I believe needs to be done.
"Many parts of my life, I’m not very disciplined, especially around eating, but when it comes to football I’m really disciplined. Nothing will take me away from what I think needs to be done. I don’t really care … not care … but I won’t let it enter my space."
He added: "I ignore the tide and just keep swimming. Others may feel that way and if they do, there’s nothing wrong with that. You need to embrace the struggle. You don’t get success just by everything rolling out perfectly. There are times when you’ve just got to roll your sleeves up and keep going.
"Whether that’s swimming against the tide, running up the hill, going against the wind, you can use whatever metaphor you want, that’s great, that’s what you need. But I ignore it because I don’t think that’s going to help me in any way. What’s the best process for me is to stay steely-eyed focused on what I think I need to do to get us to where we want to.
"It’s all the same. It’s been a constant in my career, but I don’t think I’m in a unique space. I keep saying to people, show me a success story and I’ll show you a struggle. It’s not something that’s unique to me, it’s universal. People forget the struggle and look at the end bit, but you need to go through that.
"That’s the time that tests your resolve, tests your belief, tests everything you want to do. This is no different to anything else I’ve ever done. It’s exactly the same process."
