players these days have had the brains drilled out of them. Everything has to be spoon fed. Except with KK. Everyone else is copying them now and will catch up, but I’ve had an insight into KK’s underage coaching recently and its fucking a million years ahead of everyone. Proof that its not about development squads, its about whats done with those squads and whats fed out to the club coaches. Waterford are probably the best placed after KK in this regard.
They put movement before skill, that’s vital, and then everything they do in every session has decision making elements. Its actually highly scientific and a lot of it comes from concepts like FUNdemental Movement in Oz & Canada. Every kid gets a chance to enjoy hurling as they improve your movement first. What turns a lot of kids off is their movement is poor so they struggle to pick up skills, then that erodes at confidence etc.
Its brilliant stuff. And Demspey is behind an awful lot of it.