It's not all positivt

RE: Lost me there pal

He's posting from Norway.

Fine thanks. Yerself?

 

A ha

****? or one of those other 2 from Oslo maybe!


A well.... probably just a wind-up!

 

A parallel story!

My son was a good cricketer at school, good bowler and good batsman. So was his best mate. They opened the bowling together and opened the batting together.
The school had a similar philosophy to the parents in the football story and their ruling was that in order for everyone to have a fair chance of doing everything, ie batting and bowling they could only bowl 2 overs each or if they took 2 wickets, they had to retire. With batting, again they were allowed 2 overs or 15 runs, whichever came first. As a result, my son and his pal never batted or bowled for more than one over each. What is the point of this story? Both of them gave up cricket at school because it was boring and neither of them played cricket competitively again. It's possible that they both could have played for England but we will never know.

 

RE: A parallel story!

You dont start playing proper cricket until you reach U13 level before that you play 8 a side with everyone bowling and batting.School sport is virtually redundant ,you should have taken your son and his mate to the local club

 

Didn`t take them long to realise eh?

 

Fair enough

I mostly agree with you and I too play my star stiker up front most of the time. I did play him in defence against the then top of the league and we lost 10-1 so I can see exactly where you are coming from and I did make sure the following week I played everyone to their strengths to make sure we won purely from a confidence point of view for them. This doesn't mean he won't play in defence again (not against the top of the league though) as I think it is good experience to know what to do in any given situation all over the pitch as well as giving others a chance to score. I will leave my better players off at times or play them out of position but try to ensure that the games are still competitive. For instance against a poor team I had him on the bench and we still won 9-0, if he hade played we would have won by even more but I didn't want to do that and kickit anywhereboy scored a hat-trick. I try to pitch my team at roughly the same level as the opposition (well, hopefully at just a slightly higher level!) to give them experience and enjoyment as well as competition.

But then again, we have a 6 a side tournament this weekend (a bank holiday, what was I thinking) and I only have 6 available (including standaroundboy), so I've asked a couple of lads from another team to play, one of whom is one of the best players for his age in the Bradford area so who am I to talk! Bloody glory hunters!

 

We had a dog show next to our training pitch the other week....

I had one a side at one point! You just have to laugh it off.

 

Another parallel story!

I too played cricket at school, we had two players who opened the bowling and the batting, as first change bowler and number 3 bat I didn't bowl all year and batted about twice. We won every game and the opposition often didn't even get into double figures as a team. Did those two play when they left school, no, not at all. I've played on and off for 30 years. Maybe if I'd got more experience in the school team.........

 

i've never met mcdog but

calling him an arsehole?:S

maybe he hasn't communicated his post as well as he'd have liked but he quite clearly cares about the kids so how does that make him an arsehole?

 

The parents attitude will only ensure that your team becomes entirely 'AVERAGE' - this growing trend in our schools will lead to this country not producing any sportsmen capable of finishing better than second best (or third, fourth, fifth ......ninth, tenth etc).

All this in a year when we have won the Olympics for 2012 - the same people will be moaning that we have not won anything in 7 years time. The instinct to win and succeed develops at an early age and needs to be encouraged otherwise we become a nation of 'brave', but ultimately unsuccessful, sports people.

 

5 years

What's your point?

 

The team in question are from Norway

 

Still applies

None of the other parents have the time to train them so it looks like the team will fold!

 

McDog, do this on-line FA course and let me know what you think

http://www.thefa.com/Grassroots/ClubDevelopment/Volunteers/Postings/2004/01/SoccerParent.htm

You'll have to register first mind.

Cheers

 

Cheers pal

Just signed up! Hoping this will give me some good tips about training and about understanding how parents think and react!