Quote Originally Posted by IMO View Post
Thoughts? Im no expert and would never claim to be, just a parent of a couple of wpl players who has been watching them all play since they could kick a ball.

The last few year's i have been noticing myself as well as hearing, and it seems to be quite common and really annoying, that clubs (not all clubs and grades of course) seem to be constantly recruiting coaches that are way too overcommitted or inexperienced or sometimes both.

We need coaches who know their players and what they can do and are fully committed to each and every player in their squad.

Coaches who analyse games and take the time to make decent coaching plans and provide quality feedback and development to each and every player.

Before you say go easy it's a volunteer role... I get that, what I'm saying is don't "volunteer" if you can't have it take over your life. They are out there, I've seen many of them overlooked time and time again for what seems to be the absolute wrong reasons.

A good coach is not a good coach automatically because the forefathers and 6 uncles coached and played at the club.

A good coach is not a coach when they already coach another grade, play themselves and or then coach a senior squad.

A coach is not good just because they coach at Jets as well or used to.

A coach is good because they are fully committed to the team they are coaching 100% and the team feels it. Then the results come along with harmony and healthy interactions.

Seems to be so many angry, defensive overcommitted coaches out there in the clubs. It should never be not about lineage or just a licence level or who you know. Not about who pays the sponsorship money or who owns who.

I have a MR licence and First Aid certificate, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm good at those things just means I worked hard to obtain them. Hopefully I am but you get what I mean.

It's sad what happening out there. I feel for the girls. They want to play the game they love. The money that is forked out by parents also should equal more of a commitment from clubs to provide quality coaches and programs than we see here in Newcastle now.

There is not enough coaches, it's a lot of time and money to get the appropriate licence and little to no money in it in the women's / girls comp. If those coaches stepping up didn't there would be no team for the girls to play in.

You seem to have no idea of the landscape of the competition.

There's politics in football, but in the women's space not enough resources to go around.

I'm not even sure how you got to make this post complaining about inexperience to begin with then going on about how they should be doing match analysis and development reports also for free, where does all this magical experience at NPL level come from? Make a claim to not be an expert then criticise everything else without stepping up yourself and learning or offering to help out? Maybe try being a manager one year and offering to back up a coach, go and be on a committee and volunteer hundreds of hours to working on the weekend for nothing or keeping a club growing by getting grants and trying to recruit more volunteers.

Pretty easy to just turn up and sit in the stands and cheer every weekend. Get in and help.