Are our coaches doing enough?

[Hodgyman]

Given our players are not playing to their previous levels achieved while with other clubs eg Murphy, Baxter, Coady, Taylor, Cuvalier etc, are our coaches not meeting expectations?

Coaching simple things like how to take a corner that beats the first defender, how a goalkeeper can attack crosses that are more than 2 yards from the goal line, how to beat offsides are quite basic levels of competance expected of Level 1 coaches in kids football.

Is it time to recruit coaches that can improve our players? My god, they need it!

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

No just need better players. The talented ones aren't playing and probably because they don't give us the right blend collectively.

 

[Sirius]

Given our players are not playing to their previous levels achieved while with other clubs eg Murphy, Baxter, Coady, Taylor, Cuvalier etc, are our coaches not meeting expectations?

Coaching simple things like how to take a corner that beats the first defender, how a goalkeeper can attack crosses that are more than 2 yards from the goal line, how to beat offsides are quite basic levels of competance expected of Level 1 coaches in kids football.

Is it time to recruit coaches that can improve our players? My god, they need it!

Surely it is the scouting system that is deficient. All the things you mention ,at basic level, a player should already have in his locker. Were incomers not scrutinised during the games that our scouts attended. Was it not noticed that player A was as weak as water and couldn't land a corner?

 

[brownie4583]

Surely it is the scouting system that is deficient. All the things you mention ,at basic level, a player should already have in his locker. Were incomers not scrutinised during the games that our scouts attended. Was it not noticed that player A was as weak as water and couldn't land a corner?

Most Sunday league players taking corners can beat the 1st man and get it into the box!

 

[dingledog]

In sure they are going as fast as legally possible down the M1, whilst our ever patient supporters are singing 'the wheels on the bus......,'.

 

[sheffielder]

Even with the work Clough and his team have been doing this team is still unfit. McGinn's last 2 corners were surely more about fitness than technique, considering the the corner he took which was cleared off the line in the 1st half.

The fitter you are the better decisions you make. I think Nige should introduce terror tuesday after ever defeat with a 3 peaks run.

 

[grafikhaus]

I've posted this link in 'Football & Other Sport' but have a read at this...link...and weep!

 

[Pinchy]

In sure they are going as fast as legally possible down the M1, whilst our ever patient supporters are singing 'the wheels on the bus......,'.

Monty is driving one of them. It's constantly veering from lane to lane, It has no acceleration and the turning circle of an ocean liner, trying but failing to catch up with the other team's coaches.

 

[alcoblade]

Monty is driving one of them. It's constantly veering from lane to lane, It has no acceleration and the turning circle of an ocean liner, trying but failing to catch up with the other team's coaches.

Agreed Pinchy, you've nailed it - it all went wrong after Warnock left and they've a been clueless since.



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[Bladesway]

Most Sunday league players taking corners can beat the 1st man and get it into the box!

You see people spout this crap about how Sunday League players can take corners that beat the first man without having the first idea of what they are trying to achieve. Anyone can hoik a corner into the area and over the first man. Thats just a percentage ball into the box relying on a free for all. Something that a footballasaurus from 30 years ago might wish to achieve.

Look a bit deeper and you will see we aren't ladened with eight foot goliaths who will win everything in the air so the theory (or so it seems) is to drive the ball so that you have defenders and attackers both heading in a goalward direction and the merest deflection can take it in. You negate the need to have a team of hired goons who are just eight foot thugs (see the pigs for this). We are a small team so it seems to me that this tactic is employed to drive the ball over rather than float it. Problem arises when your players can't do this.

In summary the coaches are appearing to do the right things but the players are shit. Solution, buy some better players.

Best corner taker I can remember in recent seasons was Cotterill. On his day he could whip a ball in as dangerous as anything out there.

 

[Pedro Verde]

Bring Woodward back from the States as corner and dead ball coach

 

[Pinchy]

The most a coach can do is to get the best out of a player. You can't implant talent. That's a gift. We need to recruit better players. It's that simple.

 

[Hodgyman]

The most a coach can do is to get the best out of a player. You can't implant talent. That's a gift. We need to recruit better players. It's that simple.

I agree that you can't implant talent, but you can improve technique and practice until there is sufficient improvement. If the professional players don't have talent, bring in amateurs who do the same, simple things better week in week out on local parks to show them how

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Most Sunday league players taking corners can beat the 1st man and get it into the box!

Saw a number of Premier League players yesterday that couldn't do it either...Bobby Charlton used to blame it on trying to hit the ball too hard.