Drew Taylor

Reflecting on some great interactions incl w @benbarts @MyFootballCoach @jackbraz29 @power_ray etc & recent delivery at expos - session design regardless of context: 1. Needs of the Players 2. Demands of the Game My own process👇 Feel free to share, borrow, comment, RT etc🙏

Congratulations ⁦@SydneyFC⁩ on your performance in a World class Youth football tournament in Düsseldorf. Top of the group then went on to beat Borussia Mönchengladbach in the semi only to lose the final to ⁦@Everton⁩ on penalties. 💪🙌🇦🇺⚽️ More of this please!

My heart 🥲 #AngePostecoglou

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Slight change to the way exercise starts & we encourage the development of good scanning habits @power_ray @KevinMcGreskin @brizzos @petenowakowski @DrSkillAcq @nickmammone @DirCoach @CoachSeve @davewright07 @gmurphycoaching @Coach_Drew_T @aksumfootball @ShakeyWaits

@simonhill1894 This is exactly what the A-League needs to be. A feeder league. It gets young talent in the door, entertain crowds for a bit and then brings the club money and then onto the next player in the system. Hopefully they then develop and become star socceroos

Germany has launched new regulations that will transform the way football is played by U11s in the country. DFB VP Ronny Zimmermann: “We need to think like children, not like adults. Only children who develop fun & joy in the game will stay in football.” trainingground.guru/articles/germa…

The A-League deserves credit where credit is due. Awareness of the value of player development has increased in recent years. This season, 30% of starts and 31% of minutes have gone to U23 Australians. That is the most ever, outside of the covid-affected 2020-2021 season.

There is a certain reticence in the A-League to give regular starts and minutes to a certain type of young player. It is no coincidence that these players are of the type that the Socceroos lack: - Technical, risk-taking midfielders - Centre-forwards - Ball-playing centre-backs

Kicking off 2024 delivering on an AFC/FA B Diploma as a Coach Educator Tutor with @Christophera191 and @Coach_Drew_T for @footballnsw. A great couple of weekends ending on a 40°C day 🔥⚽️

Stop highlighting children playing football as wonderkids Let them enjoy playing the game without being tagged by irresponsible adults looking for engagements

Her name was Melissa Hoskins! She was an Olympic cyclist, a mother of two. She was a daughter and a friend. Fk that guy. And fk you 7news. Tell HER story not his. It’s time to change the narrative

Eyes wide open 👇

Currently watching Nice vs Reims: A 34-year-old Italian head coach who ‘never played’ vs. A 31 year-old English head coach who ‘never played’ and doesn’t have a Pro Licence And yet, some of the most enchanting attacking play and engrossing problem-solving I’ve seen in years.

Of the 12 new managers/head coaches appointed by EFL clubs in the past 6 weeks, half never played any notable professional football. The same can now be said of about a fifth of the present 92 League managers. Piece here on the rise of the career coach. thetimes.co.uk/article/eb4d9e…

@RhysShelmerdine Australia needs to have more youth national team camps - and camps which are not solely focused on tournament qualification. If you’re a 2007-born Joey, you shouldn’t have to wait 2 years to play national team football again just because there are no tournaments.

1/15 When I defended my PhD in November, I was given an assignment by the committee called "Why football coaches need to fall out of love with Rondos in practice". I looked at specificity, transfer of learning, scanning and creativity. I will now present some of the findings.

Leaving an amazing legacy @PhilMoss_13. Thankyou.

The best thing about competitive sport is that the game always decides. We don't need to agree on everything. Your context is not my context, so we should prepare our teams differently. And the game decides. Safety and ethics are the only mandatories. Everything else probably works and is probably worth considering. And the game decides. The only 'best practice' we need is the practice that works for this team at this time. And if that practice doesn't work, the game decides. There are no awards for perfect training design, or perfect warmup, or perfect data set. And the game decides whether any of it is useful anyway. It is this difference, this uniqueness, the sense of not knowing, that makes competitive sport so appealing. It is that eternal search for excellence, knowing that when you find excellence, it's probably only fleeting. Because the game is always changing, and it will decide differently next time. We should enjoy these complexities, rather than be tortured by them. We should appreciate coaches doing things differently, rather than jumping to criticize them. Because we shouldn't agree on everything. That's the fun of it. The day everything becomes the same is the day sport loses its essence. Having the game decide is our biggest gift.

Personell, tactics, rhetoric all based on what would eventuate in group stages - caught short technically and tactically against teams that don't provide space in to counter into. Tricky now, esp with a static 442 against Canada that has no need to be expansive #Matildas

“Too many of them just survive” New Southampton boss Russell Martin on encouraging players to be present/ enjoy what they’re doing trainingground.guru/articles/russe…