One Of My Favourite Days Of The Year

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

First Saturday with a new batch of Under 6 footballers in the village.Twenty One 5 year olds lapping up everything you say and apparently loving every minute of it. This is 30th year with the club and my 18th taking the new kids through their first year. It's great fun for me too.

[boingy]

First Saturday with a new batch of Under 6 footballers in the village.Twenty One 5 year olds lapping up everything you say and apparently loving every minute of it. This is 30th year with the club and my 18th taking the new kids through their first year. It's great fun for me too.

Sounds great 👍 we’ll done.

[mickd1961]

Sounds like carnage, I did under 11’s and the parents were a nightmare!

My 6 year old grandson has just got interested in football and he loves going in goal, perhaps no surprise as his dad and grandad on that side both played a decent standard of non league football.

He seems like a natural to me, I’ve taught him how to dive and he dives equally comfortably to either side and he’s as brave as a lion diving at my feet or cleaning me up if I try to go past him!🤣

It’s just a matter of finding somewhere for him to play where he has the same confidence amongst other kids.

[baggieal]

First Saturday with a new batch of Under 6 footballers in the village.Twenty One 5 year olds lapping up everything you say and apparently loving every minute of it. This is 30th year with the club and my 18th taking the new kids through their first year. It's great fun for me too.

Good on you! Did my coaching and got to a level 2 but parents were a nightmare. Two teams at one club under 11’s and president of the club had two mixed teams before I came - those really good and those who couldn’t kick a ball. I was hated as I changed it and made one good team and the poor kids got hammered every week. The good team though won loads!

My view is why should talented kids suffer! Same as education - bright kids should be all together and those that are less able put together too. Selection although harsh works!

[mickd1961]

Good on you! Did my coaching and got to a level 2 but parents were a nightmare. Two teams at one club under 11’s and president of the club had two mixed teams before I came - those really good and those who couldn’t kick a ball. I was hated as I changed it and made one good team and the poor kids got hammered every week. The good team though won loads!

My view is why should talented kids suffer! Same as education - bright kids should be all together and those that are less able put together too. Selection although harsh works!

I was the opposite.

I had a squad of around 18 of very limited players including my own son who wasn’t very good at that time and he possessed a bad attitude as well.

All the kids used to turn up for training and for the matches and I made a point of playing everyone for at least 15 or 20 minutes.

I made my own son a sub most weeks because I hate nepotism and I’d hook him first if I started him, especially if he was mouthing off.

I fell out with the committee because one knob wanted his useless son to play all of every match and they didn’t like me playing all of the squad.

The parents were disappointed when I resigned because they liked how fair I was with everyone, even with the kid with two left feet.

[baggieal]

I was the opposite.

I had a squad of around 18 of very limited players including my own son who wasn’t very good at that time and he possessed a bad attitude as well.

All the kids used to turn up for training and for the matches and I made a point of playing everyone for at least 15 or 20 minutes.

I made my own son a sub most weeks because I hate nepotism and I’d hook him first if I started him, especially if he was mouthing off.

I fell out with the committee because one knob wanted his useless son to play all of every match and they didn’t like me playing all of the squad.

The parents were disappointed when I resigned because they liked how fair I was with everyone, even with the kid with two left feet.

Problem though when you have teams - why should those kids who are talented suffer? I get it if there’s only enough for one team as give every child some playing time as football is for every one. With two sides though - talented kids are happy as they are competitive and want to win. The other team who are less able won’t have an inferior confidence problem as they will be playing with similar kids.

Big row going on in Ripon as many parents want one of the last grammar schools abolished as they feel with bright kids altogether it’s weakening on local schools. Strange that those parents who are bitter are the ones whose kids would never pass the 11+ to get in. Bright/talented kids should thrive at their own pace. Academies are ruthless as they trial a kid and reject them if not good enough. Sadly this is a competitive world and life!

I wish I had been a scientist but sadly I was not bright enough!!!

[mickd1961]

Problem though when you have teams - why should those kids who are talented suffer? I get it if there’s only enough for one team as give every child some playing time as football is for every one. With two sides though - talented kids are happy as they are competitive and want to win. The other team who are less able won’t have an inferior confidence problem as they will be playing with similar kids.

Big row going on in Ripon as many parents want one of the last grammar schools abolished as they feel with bright kids altogether it’s weakening on local schools. Strange that those parents who are bitter are the ones whose kids would never pass the 11+ to get in. Bright/talented kids should thrive at their own pace. Academies are ruthless as they trial a kid and reject them if not good enough. Sadly this is a competitive world and life!

I wish I had been a scientist but sadly I was not bright enough!!!

The problem is that too many parents try to live their version of a perfect life through their kids.

My brother’s second ex wife is a perfect example.

She made her son, the eldest’s, life an absolute misery because he didn’t go to university.

He was clever enough to realise he wasn’t academically clever enough to go but it ruined her image of the perfect child ( even though she didn’t go to uni! )

The daughter is clever, went to university and got a good degree, she’s just got a good job albeit not in law which was her target.

Meanwhile, the lad, works manually with his dad ( my brother) and works his nuts off and he loves it.

Unfortunately, his mum constantly derided him and says he’s a failure and he’s “got nothing” behind him in life and that he needs to “leave, get out of the house” and find his own place.

He’s only 23 FFS and he’s working hard.

My brother mentioned the other day whilst they were at my house that the lad’s mum, met my brother at 23 at which time she was a junior cashier at a bank, had no university education, lived at home until she was 26, drove a wracked off £350 Mini Metro and was partying and living on E’s and cocaine.

What a f king hateful b itch.

I despise people who make their kids lives a misery by trying to live a new life vicariously through that child.

Any good parent knows the strengths and weaknesses of their child and should treat each one on its own particular merits and support its chosen path whatever that may be.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

This is the beauty of the Under 6's they don't play any matches they just train for 90 mins on a Saturday then I go home and forget about it for another week.So no parents complaining about little Johnny or Jackie not getting a game. I make sure everyone has a ball and every drill is with a ball.

One night in the week I go and work with one of the older age groups that do play matches but I just coach alongside the manager no involvement with selection

Back to the 5 year olds> By May all of them, some better than others, will know 5 ways to turn with the ball and be learning a step over some with a stationery ball others with a moving ball. I can't do a step over now but I can teach it.

[baggieal]

Totally 100% agree! Unless the child wants to study law or medicine then university is not the be all and end all. It held me back though as in my late thirty’s I wanted to do other things but because I didn’t have a degree it wasn’t an option.

A child should make their own decisions - ours did!

Some good apprenticeships out there now though but competition is severe for anything decent.

Nothing wrong though in acknowledging your not good enough or bright enough for anything but play on the strengths within whether it’s music, gymnastics or whatever!

[mickd1961]

This is the beauty of the Under 6's they don't play any matches they just train for 90 mins on a Saturday then I go home and forget about it for another week.So no parents complaining about little Johnny or Jackie not getting a game. I make sure everyone has a ball and every drill is with a ball.

One night in the week I go and work with one of the older age groups that do play matches but I just coach alongside the manager no involvement with selection

Back to the 5 year olds> By May all of them, some better than others, will know 5 ways to turn with the ball and be learning a step over some with a stationery ball others with a moving ball. I can't do a step over now but I can teach it.

That sounds great 923.

A reason our top line players are now so technically good is because of starting out like this I think.

The best will always rise to the top anyway so kids should always have fun for the first couple of years without a result being important.

Winners are born not made, my grandson will probably be like 99.99% of lads and never make it but I’ll wager that he’ll have a will to win like I did whatever level he plays at.

I’d love to watch him on a Sunday morning 15 years from now.

My dad was still watching me and my brother play at 42 and 38……he was mainly taking the p I s s at that point though…..and rightly so!