Thank you for accepting the role of Coach for your child's team. Without your support we would not be able to function successfully as a sporting club.

We hope you find all the information on this website that you need. If you have any further queries please contact either your age group co-ordinator or any committee member.

Tips for Planning Effective Training Sessions 

• SMILE
• Maximise the practice work-time (Limit lengthy instruction)
• Maximise the variety of activities in a session.
• Activate the players by avoiding long queues and having ample equipment.
• Play lots of skill based activities and games.
• Provide positive feedback to all children to encourage involvement (e.g. good effort, nice try, well done).
• Be well organised.
• Be creative and flexible.
• Avoid running laps, encourage skill related warm-ups.
• Be punctual (arrive 15 minutes before the session begins).
• Be enthusiastic.
• Learn the names of the children as soon as possible.
• Treat all participants equally, talented or not so talented.
• Do no play favourites.
• Use a whistle to gain participants attention.
• All sessions should include dribbling, shooting, passing and catching.
• Children’s attention spans are different so vary the length and number of activities.
• Move from simple to more complex tasks.
• Keep sessions informal and free from stress. Have fun!
• Relax for a few minutes after you have finished to help calm the children.
• Always include an activity that the children are good at. Success is reward.
• Listen to the children and stop any activity when asked a question.
• Encourage the children to play man-on-man, as it encourages movement.
• Give the children an opposition player’s number to tag during the match.
• Establish a rule to 'keep the balls still while the coach is talking'.
• Don’t give them too much information at one time. The children find it difficult to process a lot of information.

Above all 'ENJOY'