The Coaching Column

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

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

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.

The great Tom English recently wrote about the success of the England Team, with that I was inspired to add to his opinion with my own, I felt it was important to expand from Scottish perspective and add my own thoughts. That and I like to talk about football. With regards to England’s success, it’s… Continue reading The England Team – A Scottish Perspective

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.

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

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

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