His first asset was confidence: a refusal to believe that any next step could be a jump too far for him. Plenty of upwardly mobile footballers have “confidence,” but Austin also worked out that movement would keep his natural finishing skills relevant at this higher grade. If you study him in games, he is constantly looking for the areas where defenders least want him to go. This intelligence and flexibility has allowed him to evade the closer attentions of better stoppers than he faced up to now.