Tuesday 8th June @ Wolves.
6.00 pm to 7.30pm
$60 per person.
When you finished playing did you find coaching the natural progression?
Yeah I think so. I Always enjoyed the coaching even when I was coaching for Sondico and then coach for Adidas, really enjoyed it
From reading your book you seem to really love goal keeping and coaching, how many hours a week do you spend coaching at all levels?
I work with 24 – 25 lads at different age levels. My daily routine is quite strenuous. I work 2 sessions and sometimes evening sessions. I enjoy coaching, I enjoy improving my goalkeepers and improving people who trial with us.
What most do you work with on your keepers and why?
I think the big one is the psychological, dealing with mistakes, especially when they have made a mistake in a major game or when they have made a mistake in training. I try to tackle the mistakes straight away I am a great believer in managing mistakes, if I can limit their mistakes in training it will show in their consistency in a premier league game and obviously their respective age groups i.e. Alan Blayney in the reserves and Andrew McNeil and Michael Poken in the Under-19's and 17's. Certainly shot stopping is the main one because it depends on what sort of theme is put on by the manager, what he requires from the goal keeper as in an 8 v 8 or a crossing phase. I mainly work to the manager but also at the same time work on strengths as well as weaknesses, building on strengths. I mean you have seen Antti is a great shot stopper, very athletic, very quick. To keep him that way you have to work on their strengths as well as their weaknesses.
How do you prepare keepers for a game?
Mentally and physically, mentally obviously before game and throughout the week, physically obviously the same way. Usually we will go out about 2.15 before the game and we will warm up, jog, stretch once we have done that, my favourite saying is the ‘lets go to work' and then its straight into the handling drills we do. Short distance volleys long distance volleys, half volleys balls at a dip a swerve really everything that might happen to them in a game. We will go onto some crossing & shooting from long angles and then long distance shooting, as you have seen the premier league you have got the likes of Tuguy, the Beckham's, the Scholes and Van Nisterlrooy all can hit the ball from great distances. Then we will work on one touch, two touch, dealing with a back pass, half volleying and volleying. Mentally preparing, talking to them about the week they have had, getting the positives into them. I am not a negative person when it comes to goal keeping.
What advice do you give young goal keepers trying to get into the game?
That's always a difficult one, cause there are always so many goal keepers in the game desperate to play at this level. I think first things first work on sound technique, listen to all advice, certainly watch good practice so watch your premier league games. Analyze your own games, you have to look at yourself and see where your strengths and weaknesses lie, but if you have got a goal keeping coach or manager they will obviously say well you need to work on this, I think you must work on your weaknesses but you must not ignore your strengths. The other thing is really speed and agility, personality comes into it, its how you deal with things and how you deal with mistakes. No one wants to see a goal keeper with his head down they want to see who is bright, walks with their shoulders up and enjoys playing in goal. If I go on scouting for keepers I will always watch them warming up and how he walks in the 6 yard box, does he really enjoy going in that goal.
6.00 pm to 7.30pm
$60 per person.
When you finished playing did you find coaching the natural progression?
Yeah I think so. I Always enjoyed the coaching even when I was coaching for Sondico and then coach for Adidas, really enjoyed it
From reading your book you seem to really love goal keeping and coaching, how many hours a week do you spend coaching at all levels?
I work with 24 – 25 lads at different age levels. My daily routine is quite strenuous. I work 2 sessions and sometimes evening sessions. I enjoy coaching, I enjoy improving my goalkeepers and improving people who trial with us.
What most do you work with on your keepers and why?
I think the big one is the psychological, dealing with mistakes, especially when they have made a mistake in a major game or when they have made a mistake in training. I try to tackle the mistakes straight away I am a great believer in managing mistakes, if I can limit their mistakes in training it will show in their consistency in a premier league game and obviously their respective age groups i.e. Alan Blayney in the reserves and Andrew McNeil and Michael Poken in the Under-19's and 17's. Certainly shot stopping is the main one because it depends on what sort of theme is put on by the manager, what he requires from the goal keeper as in an 8 v 8 or a crossing phase. I mainly work to the manager but also at the same time work on strengths as well as weaknesses, building on strengths. I mean you have seen Antti is a great shot stopper, very athletic, very quick. To keep him that way you have to work on their strengths as well as their weaknesses.
How do you prepare keepers for a game?
Mentally and physically, mentally obviously before game and throughout the week, physically obviously the same way. Usually we will go out about 2.15 before the game and we will warm up, jog, stretch once we have done that, my favourite saying is the ‘lets go to work' and then its straight into the handling drills we do. Short distance volleys long distance volleys, half volleys balls at a dip a swerve really everything that might happen to them in a game. We will go onto some crossing & shooting from long angles and then long distance shooting, as you have seen the premier league you have got the likes of Tuguy, the Beckham's, the Scholes and Van Nisterlrooy all can hit the ball from great distances. Then we will work on one touch, two touch, dealing with a back pass, half volleying and volleying. Mentally preparing, talking to them about the week they have had, getting the positives into them. I am not a negative person when it comes to goal keeping.
What advice do you give young goal keepers trying to get into the game?
That's always a difficult one, cause there are always so many goal keepers in the game desperate to play at this level. I think first things first work on sound technique, listen to all advice, certainly watch good practice so watch your premier league games. Analyze your own games, you have to look at yourself and see where your strengths and weaknesses lie, but if you have got a goal keeping coach or manager they will obviously say well you need to work on this, I think you must work on your weaknesses but you must not ignore your strengths. The other thing is really speed and agility, personality comes into it, its how you deal with things and how you deal with mistakes. No one wants to see a goal keeper with his head down they want to see who is bright, walks with their shoulders up and enjoys playing in goal. If I go on scouting for keepers I will always watch them warming up and how he walks in the 6 yard box, does he really enjoy going in that goal.
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