PRACTISE
As we discussed, some of the lads struggled a little on Friday with basic ball control and passing, which makes it hard to progress the training drills to something more complex.
I'll talk to each player individually about where we feel they can improve and what practise outside of training will help. I know most of the lads are playing football pretty much constantly at home, at school, and after matches at the weekend and this is great practise.
I have heard some great stories of lads practising at home (a good example is Hugo's work on his kicking from hands which is now brilliant).
We'd also encourage the boys to watch football - for example, Match of the Day is repeated Sunday morning or can be recorded.
ATTITUDE
More important than performance and results is the boys attitude and behaviour at training and matches and unfortunately this fell below what we'd expect last week with a few of the boys. Silly childish behaviour makes life hard for coaches and helpers and is disrespectful to the vast majority of boys who come to training to listen, learn and progress so that we can succeed as a team.
We spoke to the boys after the Elton Youth game, and we collectively agreed that starting this coming weekend one of the main criteria for match selection will be behaviour and attitude in training sessions and at the previous weeks match.
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