"Now working with Sydney FC,one of my prime focuses of attention is providing tools and techniques to the players for greater resilience,particularly when results don't go to plan,"Conway said on a social media account.

Conway wears the team tracksuit,hovers around games and training sessions helping embed the culture coach Graham Arnold speaks so highly of. It starts with an expectation to win,rather than an ambition. As one of the"one per centers"footballers love to talk about,it's up there with Sydney's famed fitness levels that have led to so many late goals this season.

Nearly half of all Sydney's goals come in the last 30 minutes of games and no team has scored more in that period than the Sky Blues. It's a record that,according to Sydney FC fullback Rhyan Grant,has as much to do with their mental training as physical.

"We've done a lot of mental stuff this year with Arnie and the staff,"Grant said."People like Mike[Conway] have come in talk to us about that sort of stuff so we're prepared for that. It's a confidence thing and we have that belief in each other that we can always get a goal back,go up a goal and go until the final whistle. It's not just physically but mentally. It's put belief in everybody. We know that we can run a game out and score goals whenever we put our minds to it. That's the main difference."