For the casual GAA coach / parent who’s over an U14 team I’m sure they’d enjoy it, but a more experienced coach, I wouldn’t pay €40 to listen to someone with limited experience.
There was an a 3 hour session in LIT with Donie Buckley a few months back that was €20. That’s serious value.
I’d imagine that’s the market Saint is looking to tap up. Try get in with some of the bigger clubs then. They were in Naas a few weeks ago and it looked like a big crowd.
Coaching a team is very different to coaching coaches which is what they are doing here though
It is but coaches learn the same way as players. Hearing about it is no use, seeing it is some use, doing it is what works.
Niall Moran and Eddie Brennan have a fair resume in coaching and Casey is one of the best defenders in the game.
Your not really going to revolutionise your coaching at these things but a few snippets of information won’t do any harm.
€20 for 3 hours with Donie Buckley sounds like much better value again.
And that was the problem with their session in Belfast, they had no one to demo the games, which for €40 a ticket is shocking.
If you are up the east / north side of the country the coaching clinics Stephen Poacher organises (@myboyblue ) in his school in Newry are savage value with top coaches leading them.
I think these initiatives are great by the way, I’d just be a bit dubious of the OurGame ones given the price and things I’ve heard.
I don’t think I have ever seen anyone defend a player like Niall Moran did there. It looked like a soccer defensive stance.
The attacking part made some sense alright
Actually in the middle of organising one of those coaching days currently. It’s going to be a fundraiser for hurling in the school. Hopefully we get it going on Jan/Feb. Finding a pricepoint as well as what group/topics to cover is the key.
I wonder did Stapleton and Poacher fall out.
Poacher used to be a regular contributor to Our Game but seems to have disappeared in the last 6 months and now Stapleton is trying to monopolise Poacher’s specialist subject area.
I don’t see how you could fall out with Poacher
Best of luck with it. If you need it pushed to a few large coaching whatsapp groups let me know.
Thanks. Trying to make it as broad as possible in order to attract people. Have a GK session, S+C/fundamental movement and Video/performance analysis sessions locked down. We’ve got three good people for those. It’s now the hurling bits we’ve to finalise. Will be using the school teams as the guinea pigs so it will have to be age/ability appropriate.
If I was ever training a hurling or football team at adult level the first coaching decision I’d make is to tell them to make as few tackles as possible… It always baffles me to see defenders fouling an average forward who can then hand over the ball to their best shooter to have a free shot at it. Just run alongside most forwards waving the hurley will be enough to stop them scoring in reality at junior and underage levels
I can never understand it. He has 4 steps to play the ball. Use it to your advantage. You know when he is going to have to play it. Shadow him, then either make him foul it or shoot at a point it suits you.
Ah that’s coaching 101 in fairness. I doubt there’s any adult football team coach in the country who isn’t coaching that. What happens on the pitch might not always reflect but I guarantee you it would be highlighted immediately if a player was consistently doing it.
I’d say 70% of club forwards (in Limerick at least) you’d be better off letting them shoot if the angle is any way difficult
yet you still see a massive free count every week, especially in scoring areas. I’d have no problem fouling a fella in his own half or full back line to stop an attack but anything from the other 45 in, in hurling is nearly a score guaranteed now.
Ya, hurling is a different kettle of fish. You’ve way more scope for tactical fouling in football (not that I’d ever encourage it ).