LOL. Draw spot on?!? You been smoking that good stuff bro! 🤣
Ruthless coach = kids who hate soccer. U don’t want ur team getting smashed every week cos they ain’t learning anything. If u a coach u get the kids u get - I ain’t guaranteed 10 Messi. Northern gotta split that draw or grade teams or the hole thing gonna turn to sh@t. It aint Rocket science
U a big man Goatcheese. U don’t no me. I lived on the streets at 12 yrs, been working solid since then, 35 yrs man & boy. Didn’t get no education & now just working for my family. This ain’t no sob story but u don’t no sh1t & I bet u yr last dollar u would not say sh1t 2 my face. Keep it 2 soccer bro.
Our club (via NNSW) says no football until 31st May.But they are aiming to run the season through into summer to give the kids maximum amount of games possible.i think thats a good idea and have no problem with them playing in summer obviously the heat factor is an issue.hopefully they utilise daylight savings and play night games and if they need to cram everything in why not midweek fixtures the kids are training anyway substitute games instead it shouldnt matter too much.
Hi guys. Sorry I've been off here for a while - unsurprisingly the whole COVID-19 plague has got in the way a bit.
I thought this debate about playing time and weaker/stronger players was really good - very interesting to hear different coaches approaches. It got a bit spoiled at the end with the petty insults - which seems to be a theme on this message board unfortunately!! - but the points made were valuable.
I personally would lean towards playing stronger players versus stronger players and using the "easier" games to give the weaker players more game time. I take Doopche's point about working on the weaker players though - but I think the place for this is probably on the training ground and not against players more advanced at this stage. But I suspect all approaches talked about have pluses and minuses - I think it is great you guys think so deeply about it. The key is to have guys like you coaching them with passion and instilling a love for the game. Keep it up!
What have the different clubs been doing during the COVID lockdown? I know coaches at our club have been sending out some drills for the children to try. Have clubs been developing individual plans for the players? I guess it would be quite hard at this age to give individual plans, but I'd love to hear how different clubs are approaching it.
Stay safe!
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Our TD sent out individual things for our players to do both a SAP one and a Youth one. It's nothing major just a couple different exercises each week, he did it for the initial four weeks that we were going to be off but he said he plans to send another one out to cover till the end of May. No idea how many of the players are doing it, know a couple are but hopefully most are, if we do come back we probably won't have too many weeks to get ready.
I think the TDs at our club have been finding which content to send quite difficult. The drills on the Northern website are quite limited, and the Federation ones also. There are thousands of You Tube videos out there but most are tricks and flicks and not much substance.
I think the hope at ours is that this is like an extended summer break and having the children kicking a ball at all is good. We all hope that the season can extend into summer and then will roll straight into next season. If that happens the kids could be pretty sharp for season 2021!!
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Our club has sent through a bunch of basic drills.they have been a good break from school work so my son is getting some work in.im not all that stressed about not keeping in tip top shape as majority of kids once they get back on the park will get up to speed pretty quickly.one silver lining is it has emphasised how much my son loves football and his SAP team.hes been looking at the draw on weekends to see who they would have been playing.sadly this is the part of the draw where they were due to play all their best opponents so hes really bummed out they didnt get that shot.hopefully all the kids understand when they get back how privileged they are that they get to play football on the weekends in such a good environment.they will be back eventually and hopefully get a good run through the later months of the year.