Richard Cooper

So, so deserved 🍾 #pufc

@ChrisFunnell90 @bostontownfc Yes all good thanks Chris. Looking forward to following your positive progression next season too .

@ChrisFunnell90 @bostontownfc Congratulations @ChrisFunnell90 and @bostontownfc Richly deserved and what a great season

There's a perception in grassroots coaching that small sided games (SSG) are the bit at the end of the session where the coach steps back and lets the children have a kick about. The "fun bit", the reward for getting through the session and I think for some coaches there's an unspoken worry behind that, a feeling that if the players are just playing a game then what exactly am I here for? If I'm not organising, setting up cones, and delivering coaching points then I'm not really coaching, and that can make you feel a bit redundant. That couldn't be further from the truth, and I think it's one of the biggest misunderstandings in grassroots football right now, SSG's aren't the absence of coaching. They're one of the most powerful environments you can coach in, because the game itself is doing half the work for you. Every decision a player makes in a SSG's is real., there's pressure, opposition, consequence, and context. An activity can teach a child how to pass but it can't teach them when to pass or why that pass was the right one in that moment. The game does that, and your job as the coach is to help them see it. The coaching doesn't stop when the game starts, it just changes shape. Instead of standing at the front telling players what to do, you're watching, observing, and picking your moments. A quick question during a natural break in play, "what did you see before you passed that?" A gentle prompt before a restart, "where's the space right now?" A conversation with a player while they're waiting to come back on, "what would you do differently if that happened again?" Those interventions are small but they are received differently because the player has just lived the moment you're asking them about. It's not theoretical anymore, it's real and it's theirs. The reason some coaches only use SSG's as the final ten minutes of a session is that somewhere along the way we've been taught that coaching has to look busy. It has to look structured and organised and visible but the best coaching often looks like very little from the outside. It looks like a game running smoothly with a coach on the edge asking the right questions at the right time, and a player suddenly seeing something they didn't see five minutes ago. You're not redundant in a SSG's, you're arguably more important than at any other point in the session, because the players are making real decisions in real time and you're the one helping, guiding, facilitating and scaffolding them to understand why some of those decisions worked and others didn't. So if you've been treating SSG's as the warm down or the reward at the end, maybe it's worth rethinking that because the game is where the learning lives, and coaching doesn't have to stop just because the bibs are on and the goals are out.

⚠️ LABOUR'S HIDDEN TAX TRAP - If you earn £100 and pay £30 income tax you're left with £70 You then buy £70 of fuel & you pay 59% fuel duty & VAT (£41.46 of the £70 Which means the government actually just got £71.46 tax from your hard earned £100.00 NO WONDER PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE IN THE U.K 🇬🇧

Many warned of the consequences of Labour. Taxes up, to pay for higher benefit handouts. “Mark my words, Labour will raise your taxes” “You name it, Labour will tax it”. “I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, he is going to put up your taxes.” Don’t be fooled again. ⚠️

Fair play to Crystal Palace who have become the first club to offer an aftercare programme for released players that don't have a future in football. The three-year aftercare package will support released academy players in making a way of life, outside of football. This is an incredible step made by the club, we need more of this!

Is Pierluigi Collina the 🐐of Referees?

@mcgeeney_paddy @dannyhall04 That does bring back memories Paddy! I had forgotten about that 🔴⚪️

@dannyhall04 Was due to make me debut that game ,unexploded bomb, had to wait Leeds at home month after 😂

Meningitis, funerals and unexploded bombs - a look at some other extraordinary Blades games that never happened after this afternoon's Oxford clash was postponed due to freezing weather thestar.co.uk/sport/football… #sufc #twitterblades

It’s ridiculous, and suggests to me that either this Govt has zero courage of its convictions, or simply has zero convictions.

Yet another U-turn. Right decision, obviously, but the sheer volume of policy decisions this Govt then goes back on after public pressure is astonishing.

You don’t have to be a Tory to be disgusted by this devastating mash-up of Labour Party leaders lying through their back teeth about tax so they could win power.

@Keir_Starmer Fair is subjective. Perhaps you should read some Thomas Sowell.

On @BBCNewsnight on Monday night, I predicted Rachel Reeves would be gone by Christmas. Following her disastrous Budget, which is a betrayal of everything she promised not to do, I expect she will be gone much sooner. Not because she’s a woman, but because she’s hopeless.

Labour’s plan for Britain: Growth DOWN Inflation UP Borrowing UP Taxes UP Debt UP Thanks Rachel! 👏👏👏🤮

@Neccccy Not just Rachel Reeves, the whole Party is! This country will be so far in the financial abyss that you wonder whether we will ever get out of it, by the time this party of clowns has finished 🥲

Is Rachel Reeves the most incompetent Chancellor there has ever been? Yes or No?

Yet more broken promises. Getting to the stage where I don’t believe a word that comes out of Labour’s collective mouth. They’re now the Meghan Markle of Govts.

Unemployment hits a 4 year high Inflation highest in the G7 Growth downgraded weeks before budget Highest energy prices in the world Taxes about to go up AGAIN! HOW has Rachel Reeves still got a job? She is DESTROYING the economy. Worst Chancellor of the Exchequer in history.

“Under a Labour government we would freeze energy bills. We wouldn’t allow them to go up.” ~ Keir Starmer Yet another lie. Energy prices are rising again, by 2% in October. Energy prices are 12% higher than when Labour came into government in July 2024.

@RUWFC_Official @Freyamai04 Excellent Freya! Well done 👍

⭐️ | Star performer Congratulations to Freya Rattenbury - named our Player of the Match for a battling performance in defence. Well played, Freya! Freya is sponsored by Tracie B Personalised Embroidery. #RUWFC #ForeverTogetherForeverProud #RUFC