Preparing for The Biggest Year in Kavanagh College Football History 2012
KAVANAGH COLLEGE FOOTBALL
"He Ngakau Nui - With Pride"
"Part of preparing your team to win is knowing how the game will be won"-Kevin Sivils
From the afore mentioned book(last blog) this sentence appears very early on on the first page and sets the scene for the whole message. Men, this is what we will build and from your ongoing reflection already on your play, strengths, areas for development, tactical and strategic knowledge to create a fantastic season we all enjoy and perform at ever greater levels.
How will we win?
This applies to a season, or seasons as much as it does to one game or one half. Our "path" may change but the basic principles we will set down will not. Knowing these key pieces of information and from practicing the 'how to do it', will add up to a planned programme for success that lies before us.
Why doesn't everyone do it?
Great question. I suspect it is the same reason we didn't this year and most teams don't. Time to plan, a commitment to work the plan, the ability to learn as the plan unfolds, and the discipline of hard work with trust in team mates. This only comes from a shared set of beliefs and a base level of competence and confidence. All of which requires planning and planned practice.
Consider this:
You turn up to training, you are not the last but you are not the first. You take your time and are keen to kick a ball around but after a long day aren't too keen to commit to much more.
Two days later after training with your other club team and getting other messages of how to play, you turn up to your school game.
The coach outlines who is playing where and a couple of points about how he/she wants things to happen.
You warm up and the game is on.
Thinking about the lead up:
- What do you remember about the practice learning points?
- What do you remember about the game plan?
- What about your part in the plan?
- What do you trust yourself to do well and how will you use this in this game?
- How well do you trust those immediately around you and their skills/abilities?
- If it all turns to custard, what is the key thing you must do? Or the team?
- Does anything spoken at half time make sense to you?
This is just a short list that hopefully challenges our thinking about what we all need to think about and contribute as we develop a plan for our Year of History.
Take care and share your passion for playing and learning the game.
PS Ill see some of you this weekend in the last game of the season for senior football.
Richard
Coach
