What we’re playing then six versus four good math I want it so I don’t know what you’ve been told I’m a football coach is all you need to know and the coaches who are watching are watching me yeah so in threes or a four grab a ball
Each okay anywhere you like in this area here yeah sort of 20x 20 which will tell me about your space enjoy that ball as a three or a four so some can go over there the coaches will soon find out where they can and can’t stand okay so
Coaches that’s me being a coach real time why I was still doing my shoelaces and players were here getting cold what is it important I do get moving yes even though I’m doing my laces up I’m trying to connect I’ve remembered maybe one or two names but
The most important thing is they know who I am we have a point of connection we get a moving with the ball especially on a night like tonight so I’ve got to engage with them make them feel like that as soon as possible this is the third hat that I
Wear so during times tonight while that’s going on you get by one get one free I’m going to try and come over and explain what I’m attempting to do if you have any questions maybe note them down otherwise I might not be able to spend as much time with
Them as possible is that all right right Mark out of 10 from me to you understanding and cracking on with the task nine what percent is that 90 90 would you accept that on every exam I would yeah but don’t lower yourself to my standards you want to be
100% yeah so now give yourself a mark out of 10 for movement in your little game yeah if it’s a six how do you get to a seven or eight also give yourself a mark out of 10 for creativity yeah can you get to 10 out of
10 on movement and creativity moving the ball ready off you go what does that look like so let’s see how they respond to those two questions so I’ve got them to self evaluate does it start to look more like a game I would say 1 or 2% it looks more
Like a game now would you cuz we got movement we’ve got angles we’ve got distances now we’ve not got any what yet transition I can live with that we’ll get to that one get them moving but two get my thoughts after a long hard day at work
Most of you probably work 9 to 5 Beyond you check in for tea you rush here you’re coaching your own son or daughter so simple activity how much equipment have I used just balls yeah but it’s also enabling me to sort my life out over here I know I’ve probably got more
Equipment and it looks like a rainbow by comparison to yours that’s cuz that’s my office ladies and gentlemen if I don’t keep that organized I lose time but if I can recommend one thing you organize yourself the night before it will buy you valuable time to enjoy with them so
It’s worth it the night before last five four three two one and relax okay over your stroll so how do I know you’ve just worked really hard 10 divided by two is what five can you stand in two groups of five for me okay who knows what a Rondo is what’s a
Rondo you get in like a square someone’s in the middle and person in the middle is trying to get the ball Okay now what’s interesting you said you get in a square so do you want some cones no Circle you want to get in a circle okay so you show me your Rondo
Over there just for a minute well have you got a decide first who’s in the middle who’s in the middle so the player in the middle has this so you show me your run over there if you want cones are there player in the middle just hold on to that that way
We can see can’t we if you go okay Play Show Me Your Runo so coaches I’ve done this intentionally again simple little activity to set up you’ll have all seen it classic Rondo now watch what happens when the player wins it in the middle if he wins it cuz who should win this
Battle who should win this battle why yeah someone gave you those odds I think we’d all be on a first class fight to Vegas wouldn’t we so when we play football we play to a what a pitch so we got to give him a perimeter so look this lad look at his
Motivation what’s happened to it it’s dipped doesn’t it okay and time okay player in the middle well done you just work your socks off yeah I’m going to give you a fighting chance now this group coming here same group over here come and get four cones copy the size of that
Group one 2 3 4 go okay freeze ball went out of play what would happen in football go then swap you can’t you can’t have the ball outside this area yeah you’re ref from the game so you’re out you got to come inside yeah ready play so straight away what have we
Already got in the session now had transition it’s a transition starting to happen now okay brilliant what just happened then what did the player in the middle do one the ball right so let’s just rewind he’s he’s one versus four he’s working his socks off he finally gets
The ball and then what does he do gives it back good habit or bad habit bad habit right so we need to reward that don’t we what would you want that player to do in the game keep it use it perfect if you think you know what transition is start to
Think about a really good way of explaining it back to me and I’ll ask you in a minute is that okay so what is transition right player in the middle when they win the ball this is what you’re GNA do so if I’m you I’ve got the
Bib let’s have the ball what have you been doing so far so win the ball back and then you swap yeah but in a game of football if your team’s just won the ball back what would you want him to do with it keep it use it give it to a teammate
Now at the moment he hasn’t got any teammates we’ll get on to that in a minute but I love you thinking so rather than teammates what’s new in the grid now con cones how many five how many many is there R you four four so I’m going to dribble
Through that one no I’m not going to dribble through that one if I do and I break out of the square I then get to choose who goes in get the idea now if the player in the middle only gets a touch on it and it goes out
They’ve got to do that three times to swap over if you want to swap over straight away what you’ve got to do is just play a pass to him intercept drive out one of the five gates happy you ready play okay boys here you go one you would be to go two 3
4 5 oh make sure you’re in the Square so now look at the player in the middle their motivation their thinking their decision making does it look more like a game now if I ask you to plot this practice somewhere on the pitch what would this look like which area of the pitch
Midfield so think of a midfielder at the moment who works his socks off or her out of possession close proximity i’ go Dean rice can he break up the play when he’s broken up the play what does he want to do yeah get the ball out if he gets the ball out of
There and if it’s Dean rice it’s 11v 11 what if we got Elsewhere on the field space what else has has the yellow team got if they break out of there more players elsewhere to free the ball up to so all I’m doing is taking a classic Rondo and giv it more
Purpose okay and relax right this group over you come right this group come out who’s been to wimon or knows anything about wimon yeah what are the two big courts at wimon so this is Center Court that’s Court one if you’re on court one now come on to Center Court who’s in the
Middle just show me 10 seconds ready play oh he got a toe on it there’s one oh he’s got he ped you out that’s two come can you get it oh I forced them out three remember you got to stay in this Orange area it’s 4v1 no excuses
Players on the outside how many times B mind what we did at the start about creativity and movement how many times did you move off your area did you no how many of you are the term I would use is a baller who’s a baller your dribbler right so I don’t want to
Kill what you’re good at I want to make you good at making decisions of when to pass but also when to dribble so here’s what we’ll say is what shape is is that diamond now Defender you’re allowed in and out of the diamond you’re not fixed in you
Actually want to come out and get pressure if you can break out of one of the yellow Gates I want you to do it if you’re a player on the outside if you want to score a hattrick in this game you’ve got a dribble through one side of
The diamond out to the other well these new balls are slippy yeah so you got a dribble through one side and out through another side to get it yeah which might mean that you think about your strategy to try and Nick the ball get the idea but you can
Come and press out so the challenge now is players on the outside can you get 10 passes you get a point if you dribble through the middle of the diamond and out the the side you get three player in the middle can you break out for five happy with that ready play
Great how many times do we not let the defender start when he’s 4v1 so hopefully he’s me friend now look can you do it again a transition has gone in go on who’s going to be brave right pause here’s your diamond same rules yeah what do we have to do
With not just dribble can you dribble through yeah so go through one side and if you can go through the other side great or you can go left or right yeah Ball’s gone out at least twice oh well cut off play on God he’s going to be
Brave oh I love that and relax what does the space feel like in here is it too tight no do you want to stick with it yeah okay I might make it bigger by a yard or two in a minute that’s no reflection on you though what
Age group are you how many aside you play n what’s the size of the pitch decent in yards is it bigger than this about what if they close this down turn right turning yeah keeping it or dribbling out you ready play oh it’s not under control new ball non bid
Ball what a smart intelligent pass that is so coaches if we compare the first first Rond though where I appreciate they’re in two smaller groups with no perimeter and one player in the middle one versus four it might keep them engaged for about 30 seconds a minute
Yeah but I want them to have game returns experiencing transition just lost just won again and again and again but with some realism on right if you’ve just got it what are you going to do with it if you’ve just lost it how are you going to react that’s what I want
This practice to Now do so I’ve tried to show you the building blocks of how I got here cuz I looked at rondos and I went they’re great but they don’t give me good game returns and the player in the middle Works their socks off wins the ball back
And we just hand a bib over shouldn’t surprise you that when we get to game day players will work their socks off get the ball and go Oh what now what do I do next so what I’m trying to do is provoke thought with the practice of
What to do next for both teams oh that’s smart can you keep it in dead yellow ball plate blacks just remind me non bibs how do you score 10 passes or dribble through two sides of the diamond so you’re not playing out through the gates I want you
To attack the diamond or play around it yeah yellers keep it or play out play when you’ve just won the ball back if you’re a non bib what are you thinking about trying to keep right trying to keep hold it but you want to keep hold of it with purpose what what
Decision does it depend on whether or not you pass around the outside or dribble through the middle great where are the yellers where are they denying a space fantastic yellers you’ve just lost it have the ball you’ve just lost it I say it’s gone over there what are you thinking say
Again right if you go and press when you’ve just lost it are you organized or in a bit of Chaos so what might you do is a smart thing rather than go and Chase cuz I might go my teammates might be catching breath what might we defend as a priority which
Space where do they get more points diamonds remember 10 passes buys them a point they could have seven eight passes while we get organized so I want you to think about if you’re in the middle as a three when do you time you press don’t let them play through yeah you ready
Going to go live play well cut out 7 Seconds well done keep going and freeze now his work rate what’s what’s your name Joe Joe’s work rate outstanding yeah and because they’ve had their back turned your individual press has been brilliant just be careful that when you press just go
And stand a bit further over there just go on stand a bit further there freeze if they get round you look at your diamond so what does he need to be told yeah just sometimes say hey take a rest come back let them have it cuz
They’re only at two passes all right you ready last minute or so then we’ll put it into a proper match they didn’t keep score very well a couple of reasons for that one is I gave them four ways to win points probably a bit too confusing yeah
So if there’s one lesson I would encourage you to do I said I was going to cram a lot in keep it simple so you might have two ways of scoring you might play seven versus 11 seven passes yeah or 11 passes 7 Seconds of possession in
The middle 11 passes if you’re on the outside double money if you break out or dribble through that might be another way you score it having said that the fact that didn’t necessarily keep score did it affect them competing did they put in a shift did we have lots of
Transition so think about that moment of uncertainty if I want to work on transition I want them to experience that again and again and I want that possession cycle to go round and round and round and round but what do I also want if it keeps going round and round
And round what are they not doing securing and defending yeah so I need highlight that in the game now about securing reason it didn’t happen as much even though we did see them get 10 passes and 7 Seconds of possession is the size of my area’s tight so again the
Size of your area will make or break your session if I’d have made it twice the size would we have got as many transitions no so I’ve condensed it to get my outcomes but now I need to make it more realistic just to see if it can
Apply the learning in the game normal game yeah I might put some rules in just to emphasize the transition element yeah but I want you to think about what you do when you’ve just won it or just lost it yeah what you do when you’ve just won
It or you’ve just lost it now what I need is uh some spare footballs over there I need two balls in each goal hold on two balls in each goal a ball by each of the yellow cones one yard pass that side and that side here’s the match ball it’ll start when I
Say uh Play Rush so only need two in a goal you’re the ones need spreading out okay coaches come and stand on the side of the pitch for me play so coaches what are they working on what are they working on I was just checking if you heard what I
Said so they’re working on transition what do they do when they’ve just lost it or just regained so when one team’s just regain it the other team’s defending aren’t they so I’m looking in between so there’s a chance to work with both teams I might focusing on one rather than the other
No and what does one team have to do to the ball when it’s bobbling around win it intercept yeah do you know a word I like the team that can secure it yeah what does the word secure mean it’s ours yeah now I’m not saying use your hands cuz that’ll be handall
Unless it’s the keeper all right happy with that so in the middle here let’s go with I’m look for securing the ball cuz if you secure it I’ll show you coaches in a minute if you secure it one team’s just won it you’ve got a decision
To make the other team’s just what lost it so I’m going to focus in on which team’s securing it and how I might help you do that all right okay back out into the game the game’s going to start with me now fellas the game’s going to start
With me now out so coaches think about why I’m doing this you could argue I’m flirting with a bad habit but we know it’s going to happen on game day oh H you ref the game great support oh look at that great decision new ball pause it’s coming from the coach
Play so why is that a bad habit I’m just kicking a ball in the air aren’t I how does it link to transition what have they got to do they they got to react and hopefully one of them is going to secure itri oh okay and relax what’s it like
When the ball comes in like that you need to it okay so you’re thinking about how you might react to it by touching able to support each other and go right we’re going to secure it I’m then looking at what do you do to attack yellas you got two choices to defend now
What are they do you go and press what’s your other choice or do you sit all right right so now we’ve got this game going on yeah of tactics you ready so I’m going to keep feeding the balls in to test you ready cuz you’ve probably heard coaches
Say sometimes you got to go backwards to go forwards that said yeah I’m going to test you now always think can I go forward first why you it brilliant you know in transition could the other team be unorganized so we might be able to capitalize yeah and
Punish them so don’t talk yourself out of it and go we must go back cuz you know when you go back the other team might do what come and press you so just think about that tradeoff but you both did it really well ready 20 seconds left what a pass that is young
Man last ball from me I tell you what that’s securing taking it forward in that tight space fill fod and eat your heart out yeah that’s okay can we play forward love that oh okay hold it there show me what a good cool down looks like in this half now off you
Go what’s a good cool down look like leave the ball good cool down in this half 90 seconds you show me what a good cool down looks like so coaches what we’ll do I just want to see if they knew what I called was just get give him the S seconds you
Know that awkward silence I’ll tell by the look on your face whether or not it’s working
