Hi All,
I'm the assistant coach to a new (7 months old) Under 9s team. We have gear players and they're all good lads, but the coach and I get frustrated with the constant messing around at training. They've had huge progress since the first games (lost 9-0 and 8-0 for example) and are now scoring, but they still can't defend as a team and have had at least 4 games when they've 'snatched defeat from the jaws of victory'.
The coach and I firmly believe they gave the potential to win more games, but they need to listen and knuckle down a bit in training. I know they're U9s, but looking at the other teams we come up against, those performances are obviously achievable.
Any advice to keep them on task in taking and so mucking about would be much appreciated.
Derren
