A reluctance to adapt is an accusation Postecoglou and Martin each share. However the latter’s former Norwich Metropolis team-mate, Angus Gunn, would dispute that.
Gunn got here up in opposition to Martin’s Southampton workforce within the English Championship en path to, what was, their unsuccessful return to the Premier League.
“They have been a tricky workforce,” the Scotland goalkeeper mentioned. “We had a few good video games in opposition to them. One was 4-4, one was 1-1, so fairly contrasting.
“Once we first performed them they have been fairly open. Then once we performed them once more, they have been a bit of bit pragmatic and I believe that reveals a coach that may adapt and alter the best way his workforce performs.
“Watching his groups over the few years that he was there, I assumed he did that though some folks in all probability mentioned that he was reluctant to alter so much.
“I assumed he did that fairly effectively, particularly within the Championship.”
The narrative across the former Scotland defender, significantly with Southampton within the Premier League, was that he was too cussed and wanted to adapt.
The previous Rangers defender’s response was agency.
“There’s a distinction between being cussed and having conviction,” he advised BBC Sport. “When you actually imagine in one thing as a coach, supervisor, chief, then the logic for me is that you simply keep it up and attempt to be higher at it.”
It suggests the rules of Martin’s strategy will not deviate if he will get the Ibrox job.
