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    Grassroots Football

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    38 minutes ago, Infatuation Junkie said:

    All the games are recorded. Scores etc.

     

    You just get to see this table at any point. Until 11s I think. 

     

    The top team in the division is awarded at the end.

     

    This point in time it is all about enjoying the game and learning from mistakes. Coaches can't be perfect. Although I havent seen any shouting at the kids. A private message afterwards away from the kids would of been a little bit easier for him to swallow.

     

    He is a noob after all. 

     

    I'm not entirely sure what is recorded or not, only get to see the fixtures online. 

     

    Definitely needs to be enjoyment above anything at this age. Kids will learn much easily if the task they are doing is fun. 

     

    It probably would have been but I was getting more and more frustrated by the situation and as my stood there nearly crying looking scared I had to step in. 

     

    But like I said, he's not a coach, he's a parent who is helping out the best he can which unfortunately seems a little beyond him but no one else, myself included is stepping up to take the reigns all for varying reasons. 

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    1 hour ago, HTT II said:

    Coaches shouldn’t be shouting at kids, we are so lucky with my boy, great dads, great coaches who both played to a high standard themselves, they are good cop and bad cop. One is cautious and defensive and will lecture, but in a positive way, the other is more attack orientated and focuses on the positive. When he takes the team himself, it’s KK footy, all out attack and ridiculous score lines. Our boy’s heads can drop when they know they are playing a good side, like they are defeated before a ball is kicked, it’s a mentality thing, and then they will go a goal or two behind, fight like mad for each other and either come back to draw or win. We do lack consistency though because we could say, as we have done, smash NUFC’s own academy team convincingly, and then lose to some random other team a few divisions below badly. But you have to remember, they are kids and I tell my boy, if you miss a shot or make a mistake forget about it, unless someone is paying you to score it is your job to do so and that’s when you should be criticised, at 8 it’s your job to have fun and enjoy just playing for the hell of it!

     

    At that age the games are competitive but not recorded, no league table etc which can I suppose be seen as a good thing and a bad thing. This coach/manager has an attitude to win which whilst its fantastic to win games but its also important to lose too. My son plays for the reds and probably won 75% of their games and lost the rest whereas the Blacks won 95% of games and when they lost once they were all crying, saying they didn't want to play anymore. My son is the same whether they win or lose, he's happy to be part of it most weeks. The current manager has been known to play the strongest team no matter in a bid to just win the game whereas there are children who get to play as little as 5 minutes when their parents may have travelled up to an hour to a game, which isn't fair at all. If I were in a position to manage the team I would but I can't commit to that every weekend unfortunately. 

     

    I didn't start playing youth football until I was 12/13 and I was a sore loser because before that I didn't know what losing felt like. Gradually I overcame that in the season because we lost most weeks to begin with. I started as a CB because I was one of two players that would head the ball, then moved to centre midfield because despite my thin/underweight physique I wouldn't shy away from a crunching tackle to break up play and that's when passing/vision really improved. 

     

    I always pep talk my son a bit on the way to games, try and concentrate and just get involved, whether its trying to win the ball back or playing a pass or shot on goal, whether he is successful or not doesn't matter. Things will improve for every child at different rates, we all know that, its finding the healthy balance of pushing them to learn and letting them learn for themselves in differing situations. He knows when he has had a bad game but I tell him about the positives he did, made a tackle here or made a good pass there. Positive reinforcements to do those things again in the next game. 

     

    At the moment my son watches a lot of YouTube videos of the likes of Mbappe, Neymar because of the skills, so I showed him Ronaldinho and he loves him too now. I wanted to gradually show him more players like Lampard, Seedorf and Pirlo. Lampard for his ability to perfectly time late run into the box, Seedorf because of his power in midfield and Pirlo because of his passing ability/vision. Maybe that's how I saw myself as a player when I was younger and want to instill some of that into my son. 

    Grassroots Football

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    My Son is 7 and has just completed his first season for KLSC in Norfolk and he did well considering he only joined because his friends were playing there. He's quite tall for his age and quick but doesn't utilise his size/speed at the moment. Like others have said about their child, he lacks the concentration for a full 40 minute game but when he does concentrate he plays really well. Normally he plays midfield in a two because he has the ability to get up and down the pitch but we need to work on his positional sense but that will come with time. He scored around 10-12 goals last season and made plenty of assists if you can really call a off-target shot or scuffed shot one. 

     

    When I played football myself, I was OK, not quick at all but comfortable on the ball and had good at passing, I preferred to make a goal than score one. I had good awareness for space and could read the game well, so when I have a kickabout with my son I try to teach him to improve his technique for controlling the ball and passing it, rather than dribbling/running with it because I feel that will help his ability more playing as a midfielder longer term. Also trying to get him to use both his feet equally. I can could use my left just as well as my more dominant right foot which help me massively as player, for example I could put a corner in with either foot absolutely fine. 

     

    The coaching is quite good at training but unfortunately the manager for my sons team is a parent of another child that plays and he has no qualifications/idea what he is doing. But its commendable he takes his Saturday morning out to help. However, I had a run in with him in the 2nd to last game. My son came on in the 3rd quarter, didn't do much, then he took him off the for the start of the 4th quarter, put him on for two minutes and took him off again. All this time there was no encouragement just shouting at him. I was fuming, the way he was speaking to my son in front of all the other players and parents. He was practically standing over my son, shouting at him for not doing what he should be doing. I stormed round to the other side of the pitch, got my son and drove home. Giving the manager a few choice words about his actions.  I rang my ex and told her and she said that some of the other parents had already raised the same concerns previously to the overall organiser of KLSC. Sometimes I think I should have approached it better but other times I think I wasn't bold enough to him. 

     

    He's still going to play for KLSC next season so we shall see what that brings. 

     

    N-O alternate team

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    The nomadic striker Collins John plays for Pittsburgh Riverhounds*, if that badge hadn't already swayed your vote.

     

    *information taken from Wiki  :hmm:

     

    How is he so rubbish :lol: his club history is ridiculous. Seems to have most recently went to a random Polish team, done rubbish, been sent to their 2nd team who seem to be semi-pro if that, then gets sent to 3rd tier in America.

     

    I think the career highlight for him has to be playing for Gabala FC in Azerbaijan. Being managed by Tony Adams must have been a huge incentive to return from America... :idiot2:

    Premiership Worst Signings of the Season XI

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    GK - viviano

    Rb - roberge

    Cb - Chiriches

    Cb - Demichelis

    Lb - dossena

    Rm - kebe

    CM - kallstrom

    CM - boateng

    LM - Lamela

    St - aspas

    St - altidore

     

    Struggled for Gk & RB...

     

    Manager - Mulensteen

     

    Chiriches has been very good for Spurs. Apart from one or two mistakes, he's been one of their better defenders this season.

     

    Been awful from the times I've seen him this season but you're probably right over the course of the season. Forgot completely about Roger Johnson or he would have been in there.

    The 2013/14 Betting Thread

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    Hills gave me a free bet from yesterday where if the fave comes second they refund the bet, so that's gone on a Dynaste/ Annie Power double (7/2 & 6/4 this morning) should return £225 if it comes in. Good start mind.

     

    I looked at Tarquin du Seuil this morning at 9/1 but decided against it :/

    The 2013/14 Betting Thread

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    Good start, first one in on my lucky 15.

     

    What are people fancying for the QM Champion Chase? I can't look past Sire De Grugy, best form this season by a distance in my opinion.

    Avoid that if you want to win, ha. I'm waiting on it for £82.50.

     

    Same for £150 in a double with Faugheen and on its own in a single.

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