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Author: Jamie Birch🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/question-of-the-week
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Christian Garcia
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Christian Garcia • Sep 26DevelopmentSparkExcitement3Reply
Christian Garcia
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Christian Garcia • Sep 26DevelopmentSparkExcitement3Reply
Christian Garcia
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Christian Garcia • Sep 26DevelopmentSparkExcitement3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 26@Christian Garcia 👏 I love the word excitement, kids should be excited to come to training and games. It’s our job to keep them in the game for as long as possible!2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Sep 26CommitmentDevelopmentEngagement3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 26@Ross Whitehead 👏love it mate.2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Sep 26We’ve always had the following principles:Fun (for them)Fair (to them)Fitted (to their stage/needs)We also have Friendly (for all i.e. inclusive) but that’s one more than you wanted!3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 26@Stephen Kavanagh amazing principles to work to. Can you elaborate on the “Fair” principle, what would an example of that be?1Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Sep 26Everyone gets 50% game time every week regardless of match situation. Everyone has an opportunity to play. This has helped the team’s mentality too - no star players, we are all in it together, we are only as good as the weakest link so lift them up etc. It did mean sacrificing wins for development A LOT. It meant the best kids we ever had come to training didn’t stay because they weren’t guaranteed game time. It has meant we’ve lost kids who want to play in a higher division or more results bas… See more3Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Sep 26@Stephen Kavanagh I really like that - you need total buy-in from players and parents to make that work, right?2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Sep 26@Ross Whitehead Yes, I ran a workshop/presentation and made it clear that if you wanted something else there are loads of clubs that will pick the best players and discard others so feel free to go there if you want that environment. And we’ve been consistent with it so parents know the score from day 1 and see it every session/match in action.3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 26Was that something you had to bring the parents on the journey with as well, how did you approach that? Not being so results focused will pay the players back in the future 100%.Really like that approach, a lot of input can be from the coaches to the players, and it can be a tell. Giving the players a voice is amazing.1Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Sep 26@Jamie Birch yes we’ve been committed all along to doing it in the interests of the kids not the adults and making that position clear. We’ve always had a start of season chat with parents, we ran the workshop d presentation, we send regular updates via our intranet, we are transparent about what we do, we have continually pushed the messages. It has been hard but worthwhile for the kids.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 26@Stephen Kavanagh that’s an amazing structure. That level of transparency is really important for parents.2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Sep 26@Ross Whitehead I’ve turned myself inside out over the differences in development at any point in time. So we have tried to ensure particular combinations that work, particular complimentary attributes so if we have Kid A on we can’t have Kid D on the same side of the pitch. We used to break them up - theoretically between ourselves - into 3 groups and try to get a mix of groups on the pitch. There is a challenge for the more developed kids to do a bit more and be standout when there is a less d… See more3Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Sep 26@Stephen Kavanagh Development isn’t linear and all the kids are individual and will develop at different rates. Being able to remember that while trying to develop a team and get them up through all the various formats is a real challenge.I like your idea of grouping kids together and that certain combinations shouldn’t be on together - that must make substitutions and even game time a real nightmare!2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Sep 26@Ross Whitehead Yep, we had to grit our teeth a lot. It wasn’t easy and there were times where I wondered if we were getting it right - was everyone really benefiting? In hindsight, yes not just football wise but also as people. We had a lot of difficult conversations with parents who didn’t like it and hard days where we’d let in 8 goals. I’m loving now being able to coach more and do the detail and tactics.3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Sep 27IntensityHard-workReactions1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Sep 27I saw this earlierDiego Simeone has 3 non-negotiables:• Hard-Work• Passion• Humility2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Sep 27@Ross Whitehead really like that. You can see that in his teams as well2Reply
Sean Ancheta
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Sean Ancheta • Oct 12FunDevelopmentAlways learning2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 12@Sean Ancheta love it 👍🏻1Reply