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Coaching problems and questions

Jamie Griffiths

Hey everyone - over the next few months we're recording plenty of Coachcast episodes (our official coaching podcast), and we'd love your help!

Do you have any coaching problems that need solving?

Perhaps just a few quick questions you'd like to ask?

Or, on reflection, are there any questions you would've liked to have known the answers to when you first started coaching?

With that last one, you may have the answers now, but those initial questions could provide some essential top tips for people starting their coaching journey.

If you do, it would be great if you could list them all in this thread! We will then look to use some of them on our podcast to see if our guests can help.

Please note: we'd love to see loads of replies to this, but please only put them in here if you're happy for us to use them on Coachcast and our other channels.

Thank you!

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  • One from me - we are u12 football next season.  In terms of decision making we have some players whose default is to control and pass the ball (even when a dribble may be more appropriate) and others who will default to dribble mode and try to take it past 3 players when a quick 0ne-two would see them through on goal.

    Any thoughts on how to get each of these sets of players to start thinking about the appropriate decision to pass/dribble rather than automatically hit their default?

    Thanks

    Kev

  • in reply to Kevin Tarver

    Thanks for the question Kev. I currently work with U12's and have similar questions. 

    Have added a couple of points below that I consider when planning and designing practices; 

    - How well do I understand and know my players? Why are they defaulting to this?

    - How much will the practice encourage players to make decisions? What constraints/ restrictions can I apply to the player or practice to encourage players to make more decisions.

    Think of the Practice spectrum- Unopposed/ Interference/ Overload/ Match up. The closer you get to the overload/ match up end of the spectrum the more decisions the players will be asked to make. 

    Happy to keep the conversation going. 

    Hope its a useful start.

    Thanks

    Andy

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  • in reply to Kevin Tarver

    Thanks for the question Kev. I currently work with U12's and have similar questions. 

    Have added a couple of points below that I consider when planning and designing practices; 

    - How well do I understand and know my players? Why are they defaulting to this?

    - How much will the practice encourage players to make decisions? What constraints/ restrictions can I apply to the player or practice to encourage players to make more decisions.

    Think of the Practice spectrum- Unopposed/ Interference/ Overload/ Match up. The closer you get to the overload/ match up end of the spectrum the more decisions the players will be asked to make. 

    Happy to keep the conversation going. 

    Hope its a useful start.

    Thanks

    Andy

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