Fleetwood Town "academy". Whats the craic? 

8 minutes ago, Adlington Trotter said:

Are there any under 8 leagues nearby that play on Sunday mornings? Pretty sure there are some, but can't find details when I search online. Looking to get the lad playing on a Sunday.

I'd say the broader league network generally play on a Saturday at that age pal. Think it's goes to Sunday when it goes to 11-a-side.

You might find privately run footy clubs and stuff mind.

2 hours ago, Adlington Trotter said:

Are there any under 8 leagues nearby that play on Sunday mornings? Pretty sure there are some, but can't find details when I search online. Looking to get the lad playing on a Sunday.

It’s mainly girls that play Sundays, but are bigger leagues if you’re happy to travel? Little Lever have teams in a league; I have attached a link, but if it doesn’t work Google getintofootball and apply necessary filters

 

https://find.englandfootball.com/recommendations

2pm kick off for the eldest this Sunday. Game has been reversed so we are having to go to fuckin Blackburn for it. Be pitch black by the time we're done ffs

U7s/U8s parents- your coaches will likely have received an email from Everton today re a camp just before Christmas- if your player is elite, chase them up

My lads under 12s team on a 5k this morning. No rest for the best 🤣👏

 

 

Bloody hell 😀

We've had a couple of offers for friendlies but declined thinking it was better for the kids (and coaches tbh) to have a break. Back on the 9th. 

15 minutes ago, Kane57 said:

Bloody hell 😀

We've had a couple of offers for friendlies but declined thinking it was better for the kids (and coaches tbh) to have a break. Back on the 9th. 

My son’s coach put a poll on the WhatsApp group asking if we wanted to continue training and get a friendly or 2 on, or have a break. He was hoping for the latter. To his surprise it was almost overwhelmingly in favour of getting a couple of games on. 
 

He didn’t 😂

What do you guys do in terms of logging appearances,  goals, attendance at training etc? Thinking of putting summat on a spreadsheet that I can share with parents at the end of the season

8 hours ago, Kane57 said:

What do you guys do in terms of logging appearances,  goals, attendance at training etc? Thinking of putting summat on a spreadsheet that I can share with parents at the end of the season

I know some do it- one U15 has a lot of every goal he’s ever scored! Personally, I don’t record goals etc and try to get parents not to award players for them;

some parents can’t afford a fiver a goal

some kids won’t score for years

it creates selfish players (will always shoot even when passing is best option)

it creates unnecessary pressure- I had one kid promised £50 off his dad if he bagged 20 goals in a season. Last game he was on 19 and was awful. You could see the stress in everything he did.

 

I do believe in data though, it depends what you want to get out of it? If it’s to highlight areas of growth/achievement could be useful, but I reckon you’ll have people comparing and ultimately complaining. 
 

I’m assuming you’re a volunteer and a parent?

Yeah volunteer coach and parent. Talking about a shared spreadsheet really so totally objective about number of appearances etc. Just very basic and I'd like to share with parents at the end of the season without them thinking a 10 year old made it

3 hours ago, Kane57 said:

Yeah volunteer coach and parent. Talking about a shared spreadsheet really so totally objective about number of appearances etc. Just very basic and I'd like to share with parents at the end of the season without them thinking a 10 year old made it

Just be wary that it could cause arguments- how come Jasmine has played X, Jackie not pulling weight etc

25 minutes ago, Dr Faustus said:

Just be wary that it could cause arguments- how come Jasmine has played X, Jackie not pulling weight etc

Yep, need to be careful if star player gets picked after missing training etc

Not awarding any prizes on the back of it, just there for info really 

3 minutes ago, Kane57 said:

Not awarding any prizes on the back of it, just there for info really 

I completely get it, and you can use it for info, or top end of scale improve performance- depends what you want. My only suggestion would be not to share as team but individually… only opening yourself up if parents start comparing

First game in 6 weeks today - against Chipping (away - 45mins drive ffs) at 9am - was worried the lads would be rusty but deservedly won 2-1 with mine scoring a last minute winner and getting MOTM. Brilliant.

9 minutes ago, Kane57 said:

First game in 6 weeks today - against Chipping (away - 45mins drive ffs) at 9am - was worried the lads would be rusty but deservedly won 2-1 with mine scoring a last minute winner and getting MOTM. Brilliant.

I’ve been there a couple of times ,pitch in the middle of the village  in the middle of nowhere isn’t ? 

45 minutes ago, fatolive said:

I’ve been there a couple of times ,pitch in the middle of the village  in the middle of nowhere isn’t ? 

Yeah that's the one, behind a school. Was a bit of bog tbh.

1 hour ago, Kane57 said:

First game in 6 weeks today - against Chipping (away - 45mins drive ffs) at 9am - was worried the lads would be rusty but deservedly won 2-1 with mine scoring a last minute winner and getting MOTM. Brilliant.

Jesus that is in the wilderness! Lovely part of the world mind.

This lot won yesterday 3-1 in a fierce clash away at squires gate. Team of bully bruisers with a cock of a manager swearing and kicking off all game made it all the more sweeter

 

Today my under 15s lost 5-4 against a south shore team Spirit of Youth. Bent lino disallowed a goal for us in the last minute. They were dicks after too.

Rumbled on all the way to the carpark and ended up fisticuffs. I got squared up to by a 15 year old and offered to break his dad's nose in return.

What lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon 🤣🤦‍♂️

 

 

 

Love that

I followed through with making a spreadsheet to track stuff - looks like this, if anyone is interested. There are also tabs for fixtures, logging who played and training, logging who attended. In two minds about sharing this with parents, don't want those who come to fewer games feeling like I'm having a pop at their attendance.

Need to sort that goal difference out.

2 hours ago, Kane57 said:

Love that

I followed through with making a spreadsheet to track stuff - looks like this, if anyone is interested. There are also tabs for fixtures, logging who played and training, logging who attended. In two minds about sharing this with parents, don't want those who come to fewer games feeling like I'm having a pop at their attendance.

Need to sort that goal difference out.

No way should you be sharing that with parents or kids JSL.

7 hours ago, Alf Hartigan said:

No way should you be sharing that with parents or kids JSL.

Definitely not without some explanation of the skewed figures. “J” having 50% attendance at training from 3/10 presumably injury related.?

1 hour ago, green genie said:

Definitely not without some explanation of the skewed figures. “J” having 50% attendance at training from 3/10 presumably injury related.?

He only joined part way through the season 

Defo this

Ok, devils advocate… one kid missing for a bit, or say once a month for ‘personal reasons’ you’re aware of, but parents aren’t. They’ll likely spot a trend and question it. I would only share their own kids data.

 

12 hours ago, Kane57 said:

Love that

I followed through with making a spreadsheet to track stuff - looks like this, if anyone is interested. There are also tabs for fixtures, logging who played and training, logging who attended. In two minds about sharing this with parents, don't want those who come to fewer games feeling like I'm having a pop at their attendance.

Need to sort that goal difference out.

This seems a bit OTT to me. Download Football Manager if you want to be Statto. Just let the kids enjoy playing football.

Just now, Cheese said:

This seems a bit OTT to me. Download Football Manager if you want to be Statto. Just let the kids enjoy playing football.

Interestingly enough this doesn't interfere with them actually playing football. Thought I'd spell it out for you.