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Doubt new kit. We aren’t a shambles any more but getting a kit out early sounds a step too far :D

if there is a kit I reckon it would be the away
 
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FellTop said:
No I wasnt, see later post. I coach primarliy u21 now. U18 last year. But I coach junior kids by invite for local academies. I have known heads of junior football for years and sometimes I get asked to help a group. I have coached for prem and championship clubs.

Small sided games are fundamental. It is not true to say those who are good in small games cant cope in big games. That might be true in your team, but it would be an anomoly. The evidence supports small sided games producing better players. Futsal is massive, as is 5 a side old school. Any kid playing on big pitches before they are 15 will stunt their talent in my opinion. Being able to run and jump is not how modern academies judge players.

Ths point is, irrespective of age group, technique trumps all, including athleticism / agility / physicality. Football is a brain game, not a stamina or phulysicality game these days.

In the morning at 9 I will run an u7 soccer school for an hour. That is my own session. At 11 I am with an academy with u14s running sessions on patterns of play in a 4/6 combination, by invite. People might be surprised at similarities in both for a coach. I hate posting about this sort of stuff, but bottom line I have been coaching for 10 years plus at a pro level. I have never been asked to be a physical coach, or agility, of stamina, but always a technique and tactics coach.
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Any tips coaching an u6 side then mate. Just took my two sons team. Hard work getting them set up.
 
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Do you reckon this is early for a new kit? I think it’s pushing on late now :emoticon-0102-bigsm
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I don’t know but what I do know is that our perceptions of early in summer are always skewed every year. I go back to us never signing anybody before 30th June in each of the last 5 years. And I don’t think we’ve ever announced a kit before announcing a signing. Ergo we must haven’t announced one in June
 
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Southern A said:
Doubt new kit. We aren’t a shambles any more but getting a kit out early sounds a step too far :D

if there is a kit I reckon it would be the away
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I think someone said the away is due end of the month and the home mid July in time for the American tour... whatever happens cannot see the club parading a big signing in an away kit?
 
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