Inside Sport

Culture change


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By New Signing - 7 Jul 2015 9:47 AM

A thread in another section brought to mind an issue that faces many coaches, some even at NPL level, that being players not coming to training and worse yet not letting their coaches know they are unable to make training. Now those of us in the game know how frustrating this can be as it can change a hell of a lot of your session structure.

In my current situation i have taken over as caretaker (i may take it on full time) following the resignation of our mens coach. Our season is already well and truly down the gurgler for a multitude of reasons that i wont go into. As a result i have decided to make the conscious effort to change the lacksidasical approach to training starting at the top in the mens team. Two weeks in, it appears to already be bearing fruit.

Its quite a simple system but is one i will share with you all. I also believe it is one that could be used quite successfully for those coaching in the development phase.

I have access to my players for 4-5 hours per week in 2-2.5 hour sessions.

Where a player trains, he receives 3 points
Where a player lets me know at least 2 hours before training he is unable to make it, he receives 1 point
Where he doesnt let me know and doesnt train he receives 0 points

Obviously i have decided my system and style coaching at the performance level come friday night. I am then able to give preference to those who have trained to start the game simply by looking at the numbers on the page. Ive tried to make sure these players get at least the first 15-20 mins of the game to stake their claim to stay out there longer.

It is important that any coach who is going to adopt this approach sticks to it regardless of who the player is or what game you are playing come saturday afterall sending a text message to the coach is not that hard.

When coaching at NPL performance level obviously this may be a little more difficult but its worth thinking about.

I have noticed very little resistance to date from the players who seem to have adopted this as the norm and accept whats going on, apart from one young african but thats of little concern to me. This is about changing the culture. Obviously the more at training, the better the session, the better the session, the better the games and the results should follow
By New Signing - 10 Aug 2015 9:40 AM

krones3 wrote:
How did you inform players they would not be required
face book seems to be the way approximately 15hrs before flights with a just "you (insert name) will be playing with (insert team ) end of massage. PS and don't dare ask Why.


Its never going to be received well when players are told they are not required especially when it is amateur football and you are paying to play. However as long as the rules are clear and you stick to them, everyone knows their place.