Ange Postecoglou has two coaching rules of thumb that have never diminished with age.
The pressure to deliver success and the pain of defeat remain as acute as the day he started to cut his coaching teeth at South Melbourne a quarter of a century ago.
It was revealing to listen to the Celtic boss play the role as wise sage as he spoke of relative apprentice managers such as Dundee United’s Tam Courts, recently deposed Dundee counterpart James McPake and possible pretender to his own throne, Scott Brown.
