1. In-House Workshops : 

"I hope you will pick up some useful ideas to incorporate into your sessions that will enable your players to improve their technical skills, soccer specific speed, awareness and general outlook on the game. These workshops are for your benefit and while not compulsory, it shows me which of our coaches are serious about improving themselves and keen to learn more about the game. The majority of clubs don't have the benefits of in-house workshops so each of you should be lucky to have this at your disposal. If our club is to progress further, then we need YOU - our coaches - enthusiastic about whatever coach education is available/provided in order to improve you as coaches and to enable you to pass on these ideas/key factors to your players, which in turn should improve each of our teams and make them even more competitive in their respective divisions". (Alan Kelly, Head Coach)

        

Monday nights 9.00-10.15 at club's all-weather facility (topics subject to change)

• Jan 24^th - Developing Speed with/without the ball. COMPLETED - notes posted opposite.
• Jan 31^st - Mobility in Attack - to get players to begin thinking, moving and playing together.  COMPLETED - notes posted opposite.
• Feb 21^{st -} Improving Awareness - to improve players awareness before and after they receive the ball. COMPLETED - notes to be posted on the site shortly.
• Mar 14^th – DEFERRED Shooting Drills - to develop and improve players understanding when in goal scoring positions, i.e. the final third of the pitch. Notes posted opposite. 
• Apr 4^th   - DEFERRED Defending Drills - to develop and improve players understanding of the principles of defending. Notes posted opposite.
• Apr 25^th – Youth Cert Material - practices used in the FAI Youth Cert course, i.e. 3v1, 4v2 (transition) and 5v5 practices.
• TBC - Goalkeeping Essentials

2. Easter Programme :

• Pitch sessions - Team Shape/Formations/Set-Pieces to prepare U9s & U10s for 11-a-side football

          Apr 16^th, May 7^th, May 14^th

 
3. FAI Training Courses :

           KS1/KS2/YC 2011

• KS1: Feb 5^th; Sept 24^th
• KS2: Feb 11-13; Oct 14-16
• YC: tbc
• GK Intro: Feb 19th

          Workshops (SSG + S&C) *

I would like to thank Mark Scanlon (FAI) and all those who attended the SSG/S&C Workshops on Sun Feb 20th (10-5pm) in the Dunboyne Community Centre. The FAI tutors put on two excellent workshops which were very professional, well organised and informative. 

Vernon celebrates his award with some well know faces.

Arising from recent Coaching Workshops, notes are available below for download.

Click here for notes on Developing Speed session

Click here for notes on Mobility in Attack session

Click here for notes on Football Attack

Click here for notes on Perfect Defending

The club’s TECHNICAL PLAN developed by Head Coach, ALAN KELLY, is at the heart of this strategy and is proscribed reading for all adults involved with the club. It discusses coaching practices as appropriate to age and ability, and informs what we do, and how we go about it.

Scroll down to the COACHES DOWNLOAD CENTRE  at the foot of this page to read "the plan".

Click here to see the updated TRAINING ROTA for the all-weather facility. It is effective from Monday 24 January 2011 until further notice.

Please note that the Head Coach MUST be informed if, for any reason, a scheduled session is not to take place.

Click here  for information on the age realignment for next season. Basically nothing will change within your current teams and all teams are just stepping up an age group to come in line with UEFA. The age groups are not changing back to August 1^st and players will continue to be grouped according to the calendar year of their birth.

Feb 2011: Please remember that all children are affected ie every child playing under 10 in this current season will move to play in the under 12 divisions next season.  No one will be playing against different age groups.  In reality it is just the naming of the age groups is altering.

There are still some decisions  which need to be made ie  Ball Size, whether u15 will play on Saturday to permit the u16, u17, u18 and u19 teams to play on Sunday and a few other minor items.  Discussions will be ongoing. 

Click here to see age-group grid.

Details of what’s coming up in terms of formal coaching courses and workshops, both in-house and outside the club, will be advertised on this page.

By joining the website, coaches will be alerted to updates to the calendar as they occur.

The COACHING SUB-COMMITTEE represents all “football” strands of the club, and its personnel are:

• Coaching Committee: 

Frank Brennan: 086-8177149

 ALAN BERRIGAN: 087-2936050

 JOHN O'REILLY: 087-2611934

Fran Tyrrell: 087-2927568

 PAT DOBBS:085-7674392

GARY BROWN:087-2272509

"SoccerTots" is a soccer nursery catering for boys and girls born in either 2003, 2004 or 2005. Under the watchful eye of SEAN MURPHY and his "Coaching Crew", the players enjoy a series of varied games and routines.

Instead of entering teams into formal leagues, we feel it is much more beneficial to let them learn the game locally, and in a "fun" atmosphere.

This also has the advantage of eliminating all the hassle of travelling every other week, and only getting bits of games.

"SoccerTots" caters for boys and girls equally.

Since we have opened our own state-of-the-art training facility, we have always taken the view that our members come first, and the young players who enrol for SoccerTots will be the players of tomorrow.

SoccerTots for the current season is now up and running. Parents who would like their boys and/or girls to take up the "beatuiful game" are welcome any Saturday morning. 

"SoccerTots" takes place every SATURDAY morning in two sessions, 10.00-11.20 and 11.30-1.00 on the All-weather pitch at our grounds on the Summerhill Road.

Click here to download 2011 brochure.