PRIVATE SCHOOL FOOTY TRAINING FOR 2023

                                         

You might remember last year I posted what I did for football training with my private school team where I was coaching the senior B team.

I did it again this year but with the year 7 B team.

We had 2 teams for the year 7's so the B team was made up of the distinct 3 groups you'll find it most footy teams - the group who play club and/or school footy every week, the group who 3 has played footy before but might not necessarily be playing now, and the group of students who have to do a sport, sign up for footy for whatever reason but have never played and barely touched a ball on their own accord.

This presents the normal challenges of trying to cater training to all 3 groups but the 1 thing working against coaching in the private school system is the disjointed season.

There's a 3 - 4 week break right in the middle for exams and school holidays and there's various training nights that conflict with other school activities (parent-teacher interviews etc) and get called off so you can go Saturday to Saturday without a training, and hence no contact, in between.

Then you've got the irregularity of players not showing up for both training and playing but it is what it is.

With my senior team last year most students had a fair bit of footy under their belts so training had different activities each week for the most part, albeit variations and layers of a similar activity but with a very inexperienced group this year, I had to cut that back a fair bit and repeat sessions so they could be exposed to enough repetition of the same activity so as to provide more learning opportunities.

In the end we had only 5 training sessions with me in charge - the first 2 the original coach took training but cracked the sads and left when he found he was coaching the B's and not the A's..."it's not that they're not good players..." he said, but unfortunately for him, and fortunately for everyone else,  it was so I was on my own for a few weeks before Liam came on board and finished out the season.

We did 3 activities per session and did maybe 10 activities overall in those 5 sessions.

RONDO CORNERS...

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