You’d know he cut his teeth on TFK.
Find a report that agrees with your preconceived thoughts on a subject and then use that report to debunk the hundreds of other reports saying the opposite.
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There is 100% a value in it as a building block to developing the skill further in a conditioned game. A fella would never learn to kick a point if the first 100 times he tried it there was a man hanging out of him
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Teaching kids to solo a ball with a lad shouldering him
Every sport uses drills that are not games based.
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Full to the gills with fennel tea
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Lads have any of ye a structure ye use for u8 u9 gaa training? As in the time breakdown of it 3 X 10 minute stations, 20 mins matches or whatever ?
I was at a course recently and station time was typically 7 mins. One of the stations was a game with 2 of the groups. 8 stations.
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10 mins roaring at them trying to get them in line
10 mins trying to show them what to do
10 mins of trying to keep the them from wandering off
1 min to say fuck this and just play an all in match.
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You have failed to factor in:
Swinging on bars
Daisy chain making
Handstand practice
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How many coaches will you have with you ?
30 to 40 kids. 4 to 6 ‘coaches’
Generally I’d have four stations tops, with 10 mins allocated at each, plus 10 mins warm up games.
Generally the smaller the group you can get the children into the better.
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What about matches then ?
A station can be a match type game but just with smaller numbers.
If you want to throw in matches at the finish I’d try to keep it to 7 a side tops. Along with a few rules like two passes before a score, 1 hop or solo etc to stop the better lads dominating.
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Absolute ridiculous to make him play the game in his school uniform. All for social media clicks I’d say.
Fun warm up (bridges and rivers, tag etc) - 5 mins
Split girls into 4 groups. Diff colour bib for each group.
4 stations, one coach at each station. Groups roate through the stations. 5 mins at each station is plenty usually.
Water/Toilet break
Match. No more than 7 aside. For hurling/Camogie its no harm to watch for technique and advise on the go.
Gather in a large group at the end and attempt to get some feedback from group. Also get them involved in tidying up cones etc.
Takes 2 mins to Record any thoughts on session in the WhatsApp group while it’s fresh in your head.
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Are young lads really clueless these days?
When I started playing we used to just pull on the ball across the field to each other for a few minutes and then play a game.
The only times lads wandered off was during blitzes when the subs would go off picking daisy’s.
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I have coached a young fella on and off since he was 12. He was at his first adult training session tonight and would walk onto the team if he was eligible. I was as proud as if he was my own. A smashing young fella who has broke his hole at every training session and done twice as much at home. He is polite and never left the pitch without saying thanks to whoever was coaching him. My young lad idolises him because he always took time to give him the time of day when most teens couldnt be bothered.
Some day soon he is going to get a box in the chops in a match off some fucker a mile bigger than him but I know he will be fine because when your attitude is right your teammates will sort it out.
Makes it all worth it. The youngest years are the hardest by a mile
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Great read here with Keith Ricken. Interesting character who talks plain English
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Kev will have every club in the country going too da moon this year.
That actually looks like a really good idea and a very interesting approach month on month through the season. I wonder how much he is charging, can’t be cheap to say he is talking about payment plans etc
If nothing else gives you a group of like minded coaches to bounce ideas off