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Author: Ross Whitehead🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/reacting-after-a-transition
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Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 30Hi Ross, you could try adding conditions into your small sided games like if you win the ball back within 5 seconds after losing you get a point (a normal goal is worth 2 or 3).A breakout rondo is a good exercise for working through transitions as well.Try talking to players as individuals on what you expect from them personally when the team lose the ball. That can have more impact that group conversations.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 30Hi Ross, you could try adding conditions into your small sided games like if you win the ball back within 5 seconds after losing you get a point (a normal goal is worth 2 or 3).A breakout rondo is a good exercise for working through transitions as well.Try talking to players as individuals on what you expect from them personally when the team lose the ball. That can have more impact that group conversations.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 30Hi Ross, you could try adding conditions into your small sided games like if you win the ball back within 5 seconds after losing you get a point (a normal goal is worth 2 or 3).A breakout rondo is a good exercise for working through transitions as well.Try talking to players as individuals on what you expect from them personally when the team lose the ball. That can have more impact that group conversations.2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Aug 30Thanks Jamie, as coaches we have floated the idea of the 5 second rule, but now might be the time to implement it. I’ll go have a look at breakout rondos too.We have spoken to kids individually and we get nods and promises, but as soon as they get on the field they just walk about. It’s very frustrating!2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 30it will come with time, it’s much more common and the younger age groups. But keep bleeding your principles into your training and it will stick. Maybe give a special award after the game for the player who did the best work in the defensive transitions after the game?Keep language really simple as well, don’t call it a transition. Use language that they will understand and reward it with lots of praise when they do it.Link to a break out rondo below 👇🏻https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/classroom/386a4d10?md=77721c1b25504eedb84c2062b0092df42Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 30Hi Ross, rondos and small-sided games are usually the best thing for this. You need to explain that they need to switch their mindset to aggressive defence as soon as they lose the ball.These are the sessions where that mental switch will be rewarded.3Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Aug 30@Kevin Middleton Thanks Kevin. We did rondos this morning to get them to work on hunting down the ball, but for whatever reason it doesn’t translate to games. It really feels like a mentality/desire issue to me. I like the look of these examples 👍2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 30@Ross Whitehead hi Ross, it will take time to make this automatic for players.Just posting a random image of the 4 stages of learning that people go through for illustration purposes.This is why I designed the game model in the way I have. Players cannot unconsciously be competent after seeing something once.”We worked on this in training” annoys me more than anything else in the world3Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 31This has been an enormous focus for me this season. It has not worked overnight but it has worked.I believe in order to be successful at the younger age we do, the 10/11/12s, there has to be an acceptance that not every good play just involves a goal. I heavily praise ball recovery in transition to defense. It is a part of our identity- if we lose the ball we work for 5 seconds to get it back. We are a team and we work to get it back as a team. We press as a team, we recover as a team. There’s n… See more1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 31Further, in literally every small sided game we do I will focus on a 5 second recovery for the attacking team. I praise second third and fourth efforts far louder and frequently than a nice shot or move or pass. I’ve focused so hard on it becoming our identity.I also found though that it’s not just about trying for 5 seconds, but that they need the confidence to win a 50/50 type battle once they get there. So I’ve done a lot of 1v1 work and 1v2 as well in defence favor to show them how much easi… See more1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Aug 31@Chris Unruh Lots of great advice there Chris, I’ve passed that onto our head coach. Thank you!We have one kid that is relentless in chasing the ball down all game. We are constantly using him as the example of the effort level we expect everyone to have. I think with a bit of focus on this we will slowly be able to get everyone busting a gut for the team.1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 31@Ross Whitehead you just need a prime example. And when something good happens you can often point to hey look at Billy ball buster if he didn’t try so hard to win that ball back our lazy striker never would have scored. THAT’S the play that made the goal happen. See if YOU can be that kind of difference maker every play. Small sided game give it one point for a Goal and have the kids bite in a difference maker and give him 2 etc. there’s so many guys that stir the drink that don’t get highlights on the score sheet and they are the guys I love.1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 31Great advice, Chris 👏Always catch them doing good and praise it. If we are process driven, that’s easy. If we are outcome driven, we ain’t in control of that and will be harder to catch them doing good.Every team I’ve been with, I’ve asked them to control the controllables (cliche) and do them at their highest level. Anything else is down to a number of variables that we cannot control1Reply
Sean Ancheta
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Sean Ancheta • Oct 14Following this thread. The issue I have had with my team (11-13yo) is that most of the players seem to think that only those on the defensive line play defense. Every year I hear players say I can’t play defense. What they mean is that they can’t/don’t play on the defensive line. I have had to reframe defense to the players who play “offense” (mids/strikers). A principle I teach early on is we defend as a team. We will do SSGs or possession games to reinforce getting be ball back as soon as possible.3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 14@Sean Ancheta I always asked players if they would rather run hard for 5 seconds to press and counterpress or run 50 metres back towards their own goal to block a shot on goalI nearly always get the same answer 🤣My point is that on a turnover, everyone becomes a defender.Anyway, 10 players sprinting for 5 secs is far more efficient energy wise than 8 or 9 players running 50m back into a block3Reply