'Football Rugby' Rules: - No forward passes - You can play behind the goals It's important to have 3 goals so the players can attack any channel. Just having 2 wide goals becomes a switching the play exercise and the defenders will vacate the middle to defend the wide goals

Imposter Syndrome for me: Coaching Players 😎 Coaching Coaches 😰 Even though I have 20 years experience, tons of success across different age groups & players, there's always nagging doubts & negativity swimming around Probably a reason why I disappear from here at times...

This unbelievably simple trick is how I turned my boring ball mastery sessions into something: Fun Exciting Engaging Developmentally brilliant One the players love turning up to...

Coaching passing patterns is a nonsense. You won't see the rose bush coaching the rose how to form its petals into a pattern, or a tree coaching the pine corn to form its bracts. PRINCIPLES are embedded into it and the patterns emerge organically according to the environment.

So many volunteer coaches in grassroots football with no support, have kids in lines. The kids get 3 touches every 2 minutes then are shouted when they inevitably act up out of boredom. People who've downloaded my modules and use them report back with massive engagement from

Most players don’t run enough off the ball. ✔ Not making recovery runs ✔ Not sprinting into space ✔ Not pressing with urgency Teach them that movement creates chances—whether they get the ball or not.

🚨Calling all grassroots coaches 🚨 How would you describe the quality of the coach education at your club? Or the support you have in delivering your sessions/club curriculum? I'm trying to get a gauge on something. Comments and shares welcome

Or... Coaches who want to make football a joyless place full of lines, laps and lectures should stay away from grassroots clubs.

Society now means there is less and less informal play. Children are brought to clubs and coaches, which now serves as the overwhelming majority of a player's development That means there is massive responsibility on clubs and coaches who need to take this role seriously. We

Nonsense like 'windows', isolated technical stuff like 2 yard volleys back into a feeder's hands, synchronized passing drills and all sorts of other guff just won't cut it. If you're around my age and older you will have done all of this in training as a player. But that was in

Periodically I run sessions where I line the kids up and play 3-Team Winner Stays On. I line them in up in height or age order. I am always delighted to see that my younger and smaller players dominate these tournaments. This is great to run a little audit of yourself. If your

Coaches, don't use this passing drill unless you're players are also interested in synchronised swimming. Absolute nonsense.

Dan Bardell If your only football is with a team or coach, then yes, development is stunted. On a daily basis, I used to stand next to the radiator after lunch, shirt and pants wet through from the rain, trying to warm and dry up for the rest of my afternoon lessons. Where is development?

Behave yourself. United beating you and Arsenal has generated more headlines and airtime than your tweble and whatever else you want to add onto it.

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3 ressons... Coach education - they don't realise it's detrimental to the players Parent education - when a coach is more reserved, offering guidance & coaching over control & instruction, to allow the players figure it out, and things go wrong, parents might complain they

I used to say this to parents... The strange part of true developmental football is that while you want to win every game, you also almost want to get a level of competition where you are losing games. Obviously not because you are training or playing poorly, but because you

An FA coach educator told a group of us that if you try to do points systems like this with professional players they will not buy into it and you will lose them. 'They don't care. They'll think it's childish' was the reasoning. I was the only person to push back. So seeing

Here's the whole document I created. You can feed all the images into it if you like 👍 drive.google.com/file/d/179Ravl…

A few weeks back, Michael O'Neill sent me his game model, complete with detailed formation information for each level of the game. With his permission, I just implemented the formations and details into FootballGPT Pretty cool! And I would love to include more user content if