We lean on two groups of players the “defensive” and the “offensive”. The defenders rotate across the back and as the anchor in midfield and offensive the attacking midfield and forwards… but we know our best team when we need to go for goals.
We lost our keeper to an academy so trying to find someone who isn’t adverse to going in nets when we need to win games.
Depending on the few new players, and based on U8s last year, most kids playing in this team are midfield orientated, so that is already a bit of a challenge.
Think I will start by just getting them to start short passess (triangles if we go well) as last year, you are right, pretty much all players, advanced skill or not, are still trying to run with the ball all the time. Think I might go defensive and offensive to start with - what numbers did you do for that?
Study the Jose Mourinho low block and for god sake wear a suit.
We were 7v7 last year so went 2-1-2-1 with the two defenders playing fairly deep, a holder and then the two creatives and one goal hanger
Is 9v9 this year so 3-1-3-2 is going to be the go and try and use the extra width
I would start with a one day on one day off format. The day off should involve technical training and observing past matches against your opposition. Male sure you train at the same time as matches will be played and ensure theres a disciplinary system to fine players for later arrivals etc.
thanks for that info - I will report back in a few weeks to how we are going!
Don’t forget the survey afterwards
Anyone else dealing with the new PlayFootball 2.0 headaches?
I’m just a coach so I haven’t had much to worry about.
Our club registrar needs a holiday though.
Am also club registrar, thankfully we’re only a small club with a few teams.
We have at least 600 juniors the last I heard so I imagine it’s mental.
Trial game at 2pm tomorrow should be fun
Had our first trial game yesterday. Finally feels like we have the makings of an amazing team. Playing over 35’s for the first time and our first trial was against an all age team. We had zero subs, went down to 10 men and only lost 4-2, with 2 of their goals coming at the end when we were gassed! If anyone is interested, we still have 2 spots left. Playing Marrickville Div 7
The back end of the new Play Football portal is a fucking nightmare.
I know that there’s been some pretty high profile articles about it but actually trying to navigate and align registrations and payments is near on impossible.
While I can see the benefits if you are a semi pro or pro club the sheer work involved for a small park football club to try and reconcile all records is near on impossible.
The FA takes their cut then the State body then the local association (waved by FFNC this year) before a payment shows up in the club’s bank account. The payment is then deposited in a lump sum with no reference to which player it has actually come from.
There is a spreadsheet that can be downloaded that shows which rego payments were approved and when but it is about 40 columns wide.
There are so many problems with the new system that we’ve been pretty much told that unregistered players can play providing that they’re named correctly (for grading purposes) on the match sheet and that the registration process has been undertaken.
The FA helpline is good but it really shouldn’t be this hard for a bunch of fat 40+yo’s and their sons to sign up for a 2nd’s and 6th’s div side.
A few of our guys were complaining that they don’t have confirmation they’ve even registered for our team. They’ve received payment confirmations but that’s literally it.
Our club isn’t doing online payment, just bank transfer to the club and then sorting it from there.
What a fucking nightmare that’s turned out to be.
I am more stressed out by playfootball and squadi than I am the depression from chronic pain.
I’ve had to do players registrations myself, constantly chasing parents for payments. Like, do you want your son to play or just watch his mates run around?
And I don’t know if it’s the same in other places but Football West has this stupid International Clearance thing that has to be approved by Football Australia. Tons of our players are recent immigrants from the UK here in Perth, so half of my team aren’t born in Australia so they have had to get international clearances like they are professional players because they’ve played football in the UK.
We are a 5th division amateur club in Perth for fucks sake.
I hear you mate. I do the admin for my football club too. ITCs are a joke. This is also the worst year I’ve ever had (for lack of speed processing), in 8 years doing it.
I can give you some off-the-record advice as a workaround, if you wanna PM me.
Well I got my first ever straight red today and it was absolutely fucked. We were up 2-0 at halftime and they were barely pressing us. We barely got out of 1st gear in defence they were so poor. Second half, they get a scrappy goal and sort of get back into it. Ball gets crossed in and bounces to my right. Im facing away from goal and swing my leg from underneath to clear it (ball would have hit my laces and was about waist height for the kick). Opposition player comes in studs up to get the ball away, so I end up collecting with his heel. Straight red from the ref… The ref is talking some shit about studs up on me, despite the fact that it was nothing, then talks about the area I got him, despite the fact that even the guy I kicked is protesting it’s not a red card to the ref. So annoying, just hoping it’s a one match ban
Yeah that is a ball ache
You just have to tell all foreign players to say they’ve never played before