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Kids Footy

Fleetwood Town "academy". Whats the craic? 

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  • 5 years on from my original OP, and ive not posted for yonks, so thought id share my lads journey here.   after the original question about fleetwood, the lad (now 15) had 12 months at burnley (a

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    Club presentation yesterday- me, my assistant coaches, a couple of academy kids who have come through the club, and about 70% of the kids I coach each week!   wish somebody had told me about

  • sorry- my bad; i'm here to get them enjoying themselves, to get them moving, and developing- with that comes the 'opportunities'. i try to start teams off, get them in with no structured experience- i

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Match off this morning.

They obviously missed our game at Plymouth the other season :D

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20 hours ago, Dr Faustus said:

Ah Tika Taka strikes again… play my U7s on Saturday, my best player falls ill at 6pm Friday, transfer request received at 10pm…

Absolute shit show of a club- they only care about winning, spit kids out. Try coaching not poaching 

Sub-human scum

We had them in a tournament and they got kicked out for being cocks

There’s a kids football team actually called Tika Taka? As in, Tika Taka FC?

Games gone.

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

There’s a kids football team actually called Tika Taka? As in, Tika Taka FC?

Games gone.

My reaction too.

We get these kind of names (Ballers FC, Evo etc), but they're generally confined to the expensive coaching companies league on a Saturday, as opposed to the Sunday league of proper grassroots teams.

5 minutes ago, Eddie said:

There’s a kids football team actually called Tika Taka? As in, Tika Taka FC?

Games gone.

In my area there's a club who name their teams after players so we've faced FC Ronaldo before 

3 minutes ago, Kane57 said:

In my area there's a club who name their teams after players so we've faced FC Ronaldo before 

What a sad state of affairs.

Great game when Tika Taka play Hoofers United. 

8 hours ago, Dr Faustus said:

Wankers… only care about winning- how does that best serve anyone? U9s now?

10’s pal but regardless you’re right. Bet the kids and parents love it though, but they’ll be in for a shock in a couple of years and then when they’re not lasting everyone, the parents will pull their kids out 

18 minutes ago, desperado said:

Great game when Tika Taka play Hoofers United. 

There’s actually a semi-pro team in the NW Counties Div 1 called Route One Rovers

12 hours ago, boltonboris said:

10’s pal but regardless you’re right. Bet the kids and parents love it though, but they’ll be in for a shock in a couple of years and then when they’re not lasting everyone, the parents will pull their kids out 

We have 3 teams that age, one who directly left Tika Taka cos of the way they treated kids, one which I eventually started. You must be in same division as one of them? 

13 hours ago, Eddie said:

There’s a kids football team actually called Tika Taka? As in, Tika Taka FC?

Games gone.

Not just kids- adults, vets and women. Confused sort; badge like Bayern, kit like Atleti, Barca motto. Call themselves an ‘academy’, offer elite players extra training for £30 a month (what our standard rate is). Parents fall for it- they sell the game as being the best, whereas in reality they pick, choose and discard as they please

I’m giving them too much oxygen, but

https://www.tikitakafootballacademy.com/documents

1 hour ago, Dr Faustus said:

Not just kids- adults, vets and women. Confused sort; badge like Bayern, kit like Atleti, Barca motto. Call themselves an ‘academy’, offer elite players extra training for £30 a month (what our standard rate is). Parents fall for it- they sell the game as being the best, whereas in reality they pick, choose and discard as they please

I’m giving them too much oxygen, but

https://www.tikitakafootballacademy.com/documents

I was lost at the point that they will actually have someone shouting “come on tika taka”. Anyone with any self respect bins the idea right there.

From your description, they sound like everything you’d imagine from a group that doesn’t bin the idea.

Daughter broke her arm playing this morning. We’re absolutely gutted for her. 

A month or so out. Hopefully no surgery required or it could be longer. 

2 hours ago, boltonboris said:

Daughter broke her arm playing this morning. We’re absolutely gutted for her. 

A month or so out. Hopefully no surgery required or it could be longer. 

Aaah. Bad news. Best wishes to her.

2 hours ago, boltonboris said:

Daughter broke her arm playing this morning. We’re absolutely gutted for her. 

A month or so out. Hopefully no surgery required or it could be longer. 

Ah no.

Coolest kid in the school with a cast on though!

3 hours ago, boltonboris said:

Daughter broke her arm playing this morning. We’re absolutely gutted for her. 

A month or so out. Hopefully no surgery required or it could be longer. 

Told you to stop hammering shots at her! 
Give E my love- hope she’s better soon

 

Poor kid hope she's OK. How did it happen?

 

Eldest lost 3-2 v Ribchester. Only had 11 which killed them as the game went on. 

Youngest lost 7-3 v Fulwood who shouldn't even be in our league they're that good, so quite chuffed with that score.

6-4 defeat away at Lytham for my lads under 15s this afternoon with a 2nd half played nearly in the dark. 

Posh cunts.

Anyone got lads on this Fantasy football forfeit thing BTW? 🤦‍♂️

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Ah no.

Coolest kid in the school with a cast on though!

Do they still get all their mates to sign/graffiti them?? Always one bastard drew a cock on it so they'd get bollocked when they went home 😁

1 hour ago, Kane57 said:

Poor kid hope she's OK. How did it happen?

 

Eldest lost 3-2 v Ribchester. Only had 11 which killed them as the game went on. 

Youngest lost 7-3 v Fulwood who shouldn't even be in our league they're that good, so quite chuffed with that score.

Making a tackle. As she went to ground, she’s put her left hand out to break her fall and she’s just rolled her arm and it broke. Pretty innocuous really 

2 hours ago, boltonboris said:

Making a tackle. As she went to ground, she’s put her left hand out to break her fall and she’s just rolled her arm and it broke. Pretty innocuous really 

What type of fracture is it bud? I don’t mean arm

9 hours ago, Dr Faustus said:

What type of fracture is it bud? I don’t mean arm

Dunno exactly mate. She’s in with the fracture clinic again this week. She’s in a caste at the moment, but a temporary one(?) so they’ll put a proper caste on and probably give us a bit more info. Can’t get fuck all info during the weekend even though that’s what 90% of sports injuries occur 

19 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

Dunno exactly mate. She’s in with the fracture clinic again this week. She’s in a caste at the moment, but a temporary one(?) so they’ll put a proper caste on and probably give us a bit more info. Can’t get fuck all info during the weekend even though that’s what 90% of sports injuries occur 

temporary one be due to the swelling, further x-ray once its gone down; hopefully its a buckle fracture so wont be too long, bless her

I have 2 lads playing on Saturdays and another starting within the next few weeks. I work every other Saturday so me and the missus take it turns to go to the eldests game as he plays in the Yorkshire league. So far she has had to travel to Sheffield, Huddersfield and Halifax and she has Doncaster this Saturday. (10am KO 🤢)  I’ve had to travel to Salford twice and 2 postponements 😂😂 she fkin hates me. 

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