Grassroots football

[Walter Sobchak]

Apologies if a thread on this exists but I couldn’t find one.

 

Anyone else on here involved as parent/coach/Ref

 

I coach an U15s team locally. Lost today and it proper ruins my weekend haha.

[Tony Moanero]

No.

[Walter Sobchak]

No.

Thanks

[Bjornebye]

Went to watch an under 10s game earlier. Bird I'm seeings nephew playing. They won 6 nil but I got covered.

 

I was thinking about managing a kids team in a few years. Fair play to you.

[Walter Sobchak]

Went to watch an under 10s game earlier. Bird I'm seeings nephew playing. They won 6 nil but I got covered.

 

I was thinking about managing a kids team in a few years. Fair play to you.

It is very rewarding but also frustrating haha

[M_B]

Just been watching my local team play. 4-4. Good game but the amount of abuse the ref got from knuckle draggers was shocking. No idea why anyone would want to ref a game.

[The Guest]

It’s a pain in the arse playing amateur football when Liverpool have got a 3 o clock kick off but the international weeks are the reverse. We won 2-1 today after going 1-0 down in a proper graft of a game. It makes the weekend when you come through games like that.

[Harry Squatter]

Played Saturday & Sunday footy for years. Saturday was far more cultured and a general understanding of teams attempting to play some decent footy.

 

Sunday was a piss heads and knobheads free for all. So many knobheads loved kicking off and would turn up with bad hangovers spewing up on the pitch.

 

Helped my dad run an under 15s team but my dad ended up being free childcare for kids while parents went the pub or had a lie in. They would turn up out of the blue if their kid didn't start a game and kick off. My dad fucked it off after ferrying the kids round everywhere after seeing most of them know the pub every Sunday lunchtime.

[Mark M]

I’m involved in coaching my sons team under 9s have & been involved since the academy with 4 & 5 year olds.

I enjoy it it’s hard work and a lot of commitment & patience needed but very rewarding. The problem a lot of local clubs have is not having enough volunteers to help take teams.

[Aventus]

Glassboots football

[Wezza]

I’m involved in coaching my sons team under 9s have & been involved since the academy with 4 & 5 year olds.

I enjoy it it’s hard work and a lot of commitment & patience needed but very rewarding. The problem a lot of local clubs have is not having enough volunteers to help take teams.

It’s the same everywhere and not just football. Two of us coach at the local cricket club. We do All Stars, U9, U11 and U13 between the two of us. Most of the parents are happy just to turn up have a few beers whilst we run ourselves into the ground. I do it for my kids, but it is essentially just cheap child care.

[No2]

I referee schoolboy football, 12s up to 19 years of age. When I stopped playing it was either management or refereeing, honestly believe the later is less stressful.

[The Woolster]

Coach my daughters under 9s team (she's the only girl), started last September, and a few months ago started the U5s (now U6s) group up, which my son is in, as the head coach who usually gets them started at that age had 2 teams on the go after a parent coach dropped out, and seeing as I was there anyway thought I may as well to get my boy started. With setting up and packing away its over 3 hours every Saturday morning, and then the Sunday mornings once the season starts.

 

I really enjoy it though and am all in, have an 80 minute commute each way so listen to podcasts on youth development/coaching, read a load of blogs/articles/books on it too, did my Level 1 and Futsal Level 1 too. 

[Mark M]

Coach my daughters under 9s team (she's the only girl), started last September, and a few months ago started the U5s (now U6s) group up, which my son is in, as the head coach who usually gets them started at that age had 2 teams on the go after a parent coach dropped out, and seeing as I was there anyway thought I may as well to get my boy started. With setting up and packing away its over 3 hours every Saturday morning, and then the Sunday mornings once the season starts.

 

I really enjoy it though and am all in, have an 80 minute commute each way so listen to podcasts on youth development/coaching, read a load of blogs/articles/books on it too, did my Level 1 and Futsal Level 1 too.

 

could you DM me some of the coaching podcasts you listen too ?

Cheers

[The Woolster]

I can post them here!

 

I'm on Android, so some may be on iTunes for those with Apple. A lot of these will have the same guests on (especially if they have a book out!) or have each other on their podcasts

 

This is my favourite one, its multi-sport, but all relevant and does have a lot of football based people on there. I'm fully bought in to his way of thinking. The early pods do have some sound quality issues, but he sorts it out eventually

 

https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-talent-equation-podcast

 

 

There are quite a few on Soundcloud I listen to:

 

MyFootballCoach - Youth Soccer Player Development Podcast

Modern Soccer Coach

Liverpool FA Podcast

These Football Times - Decent general footy podcast, but have some episodes called The Coaches Forum

This Football Life - Similar to the last one, some of the pods are with youth coaches

Just Kicking It Pod

The V2 Academy

Functional Football Podcast

 

 

Others that I like are 

 

http://wayofchampions.libsyn.com/

https://coachreed.com/podcast/page/8/ The ones called The Coaching Code

http://thecoachingjourney.org/the-journey-podcast.html

 

And I came across this one recently, made by fairly recent grassroots youth coaches, who are coaching their kids, and who are also Liverpool fans that are about the same age as me, so it really resonated for me https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/podcastscom-2/grass-roots-coach-cast

 

That should keep you busy!

 

I've been listening to between 5 and 10 of them a week for the last year or so. I do find myself tuning out sometimes as I will be reading Twitter/blogs/articles at the same time and I have listened to so many now, but there is some really good  stuff in there

[VladimirIlyich]

Did it for about 15 years as a coach and about ten as a referee too. Got to my Level 3 (Uefa B ,but have had to pack in due to health problems. Had my fair share of abuse as both coach and referee too but at least I got a little bit of cash as a referee and hardly got paid as a coach. Would love to do it again one day soon and still really enjoy the player development and coaching side of the game. Was with LFC on the female side for a couple of years too.

[razor]

Apologies if a thread on this exists but I couldn’t find one.

 

Ahem...

 

https://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/index.php?/topic/112356-grassroots-football-going-going/

[Walter Sobchak]

Coach my daughters under 9s team (she's the only girl), started last September, and a few months ago started the U5s (now U6s) group up, which my son is in, as the head coach who usually gets them started at that age had 2 teams on the go after a parent coach dropped out, and seeing as I was there anyway thought I may as well to get my boy started. With setting up and packing away its over 3 hours every Saturday morning, and then the Sunday mornings once the season starts.

 

I really enjoy it though and am all in, have an 80 minute commute each way so listen to podcasts on youth development/coaching, read a load of blogs/articles/books on it too, did my Level 1 and Futsal Level 1 too.

At what age will you daughter have to start playing girls football? It’s 14 in Wales.

 

Which podcasts do you listen to?

[Walter Sobchak]

Ahem...

 

https://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/index.php?/topic/112356-grassroots-football-going-going/

My deepest apologies.

[Walter Sobchak]

At what age will you daughter have to start playing girls football? It’s 14 in Wales.

 

Which podcasts do you listen to?

Edit just seen you post above.

[The Woolster]

At what age will you daughter have to start playing girls football? It’s 14 in Wales.

 

Which podcasts do you listen to?

 

I think its actually 18 in England.

 

I think The Woolsita will only have another season or 2 though, she's quite small and struggles a bit with the physicality of the boys, and I think it will probably get worse, so will probably look for a girls team.

[Harry Squatter]

There used to be a ref in our Saturday league games who was a big grock scally about 6 foot 7 with a shaved head. He used to speak to the teams in the dressing room before the game. We were playing a scall team from Speke who had owed about 800 quid in fines.

 

Both of us had to share a Portacabin because the Speke scalls had burnt the dressing rooms down.

 

He walks in, slams the door and says "alright yer fucking Gay bastards, I know you are all looking forward to giving me some grief and I know one of you teams are a gang of dirty cunts but if any of you give me any fucking shit or have a fucking problem with any decisons i make you'll be sorry and I'll fucking see you after the game in the car park alone and you can say it to my face and we'll see how hard you are". He then clapped his hands and said "ok lads let's enjoy the game".

 

The game was played like a training session and no one said a word to him.

[lifetime fan]

There used to be a ref in our Saturday league games who was a big grock scally about 6 foot 7 with a shaved head. He used to speak to the teams in the dressing room before the game. We were playing a scall team from Speke who had owed about 800 quid in fines.

 

Both of us had to share a Portacabin because the Speke scalls had burnt the dressing rooms down.

 

He walks in, slams the door and says "alright yer fucking Gay bastards, I know you are all looking forward to giving me some grief and I know one of you teams are a gang of dirty cunts but if any of you give me any fucking shit or have a fucking problem with any decisons i make you'll be sorry and I'll fucking see you after the game in the car park alone and you can say it to my face and we'll see how hard you are". He then clapped his hands and said "ok lads let's enjoy the game".

 

The game was played like a training session and no one said a word to him.

 

That’s brilliant.

[VladimirIlyich]

There used to be a ref in our Saturday league games who was a big grock scally about 6 foot 7 with a shaved head. He used to speak to the teams in the dressing room before the game. We were playing a scall team from Speke who had owed about 800 quid in fines.

 

Both of us had to share a Portacabin because the Speke scalls had burnt the dressing rooms down.

 

He walks in, slams the door and says "alright yer fucking Gay bastards, I know you are all looking forward to giving me some grief and I know one of you teams are a gang of dirty cunts but if any of you give me any fucking shit or have a fucking problem with any decisons i make you'll be sorry and I'll fucking see you after the game in the car park alone and you can say it to my face and we'll see how hard you are". He then clapped his hands and said "ok lads let's enjoy the game".

 

The game was played like a training session and no one said a word to him.

You're ok,I've given up reffing now!

[sir roger]

Used to watch my uncles play in the Bootle JOC league in the early seventies & like most teams they were a mix of eager youngsters who would be kicking in from a quarter to three & the older guys who used to sit as long as possible smoking in the changies. One game they were sat in there just after 3pm and an officious little ref who from memory looked a bit like an emaciated Captain Mainwaring came storming in and said ' Right , if you aren't on the pitch by 5 past you will incur a 25p fine ' , one of the guys smoking fumbled in his pocket and flicked a 50p that hit the ref right on the forehead and said ' Go and get warmed up we'll be out at 10 past '.