Coaching – Suggestions

1. To get equipment ready and put away after session – I have significant experience working in this environment, training sessions setup and warm up setup was ready and prepared before the team would show up for training on each training night. 2. To ensure session starts and finish on time – during my time… Continue reading Coaching – Suggestions

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Academy Snippets

Thought I might write about the ideas because I’m shit at using presentations. Biggest and most important issue is your overflow of players, keeping in mind this is never a bad thing. My idea would be keep your senior and core players together as a senior performance team, the second group would be the additional… Continue reading Academy Snippets

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Coaching – Standards.

An interesting thought occured recently, throughout my time as being a coach I often spent time thinking about certain aspects of conduct and so on, one that confused me the most is arguing with the referee. Not something I spend anytime doing as personally I feel that in this case you would lose the respect… Continue reading Coaching – Standards.

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Scottish Footballers. A snippet.

Every coach in scotland wants to make a difference, to develop and improve our academy efforts into something more in depth and elaborate than your typical and straightforward colin hendry. Scottish football has suffered an historic and problematic trait, physical application has been the highest priority, whilst technical ability taken the backseat, typical example can… Continue reading Scottish Footballers. A snippet.

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International Responsibility

Recent international events made me think, the thumping of San Marino sparked an interesting with regards to the 8-0 score line, to experience such a devastating defeat cant be good for the soul. To date there takings in the world cup qualifying rounds tells a grim tale, played 6 lost 6, not securing a single… Continue reading International Responsibility

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Coaching – A Guide

I work as a coach in the world of scottish football and developed a great deal of experience which I would like to share with you. The idea behind this is simply to express how I got the stage I am and see if someone else could benefit from some of the information, perhaps if… Continue reading Coaching – A Guide

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Categorisation

This may not be a blog based on coaching, I purely make it because I am a coach. There are roughly 11,000 registered in scotland so better get started figuring out who I am. Before we begin let’s remind ourselves that there are a great deal of good people in scottish football, I am friends… Continue reading Categorisation

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Retiring from Coaching.

I know I haven’t updates here, as it turns out for over 6 months now, but I was wandering around youtube and I came across a particularly interesting TedTalk. Sums up the reasoning why I retired from coaching perfectly. Please enjoy.

Social Media

Short post for today, I have decided to start maintaning this site again. Got some new hosting in place and an improved interface to manage. Couple of things to take note of, to begin with me have a facebook which I hate, but damn its handy. The second one is my own twitter, where i… Continue reading Social Media

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