Ryan Edwards

First ever match, first ever North vs South Derby! ⚔️ Tomorow 7PM, Eden Park 🤩

We were lucky enough to have Christchurch Mayor, Phil Mauger come out last week & wish us well ahead of our opening game 🥹❤️

Introducing your South Island United away jersey 🖤💛 A strip that unites the southern football community, featuring club logos from right across the South Island. We are proud to be wearing this jersey tomorow in our first ever match vs Auckland FC 🥹

Round 1 | @Auckland_United 0-2 @ChristchurchUtd Noah Karutnaratne announces himself with two goals on debut 👊 📸 @PhotosportNZ #NZFootbal

@_ToddBeane Also, bringing order to chaos is surely one of the most engaging things for a player to solve… too often it is the coach that has to come up with the ways to establish order. If a player can come up with a novel way to reduce chaos you have a truly powerful operator…

@_ToddBeane Interesting. A question for you: If you are attacked by a swarm of bees - the best/most creative solution would be found in a) the moment you are attacked (chaos) or b) prior/after the bees attack (order)? Likely b), but not always - and does the soultion need chaos to be testd

Chaos in not Creativity ✏️ “Order is more creative than chaos. I use tactics as a way to give players more time to express their creativity.” - Pep Guardiola ▪️ Sounds contradictory initially but consider order as the foundation of creative expression. #TOVO

@Coach_Temisan @StephenMcDowe11 Also Matthew Syed’s book “Black box thinking” is an absolute gem.

@StephenMcDowe11 Thanks for this Stephen. When the foreword is by Matthew Syed then you know it's going to be good especially after his book Bounce

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@tombillac 👌 Nice work. Is this your team?

@Ryan_Edwards_NZ ;) x.com/TOFFA2023/stat…

RELATIONISM The water avatars metaphor… we want to fight you in the water where we have the advantage I.e We love playing in tight spaces. We train everyday in this. Do you? Do you press opponents like us every day? Are you comfortable in chaos? Because we are. Its our water

Credit to Declan Edge for this, the godfather of football in NZ.

@RhoadesTam57126 @coach_tolley @stirling_j @ChristchurchUtd @nzleagues And using metaphors to paint pictures… that way we are all clear in our minds of the pictures we want to create on the field.

@RhoadesTam57126 @coach_tolley @stirling_j @ChristchurchUtd @nzleagues More than happy to have a conversation about it. Last season with a different team I coached a more positional based system. This new approach is levels above. Im taking a very patient, layered, approach to coaching it.

RELATIONISM Bringing it to NZ. Freedom of position. Freedom of decision making. Close distances, quick passes, individual x-factor, combining with your mates. The elements of what made football fun for us when played as 5yo In an era of analysis how do you analyse randomness?

@RhoadesTam57126 @coach_tolley @stirling_j @ChristchurchUtd @nzleagues A lot of freedom at trainings, with a focus on building game intelligence and not over coaching information. Only delivering what I think is ‘needed’. Also, a lot of video with the team and individuals - Encouraging players to play to their strengths and learn teammates strengths

@tombillac @ChristchurchUtd @nzleagues Thanks mate. Stoked to hear. If you are keen I would love to have you do some analysis on us? be fascinating to see what you come up with…

@Ryan_Edwards_NZ @ChristchurchUtd @nzleagues I don't see any randomness here. I see teammates on the same wave length, all clearly understanding what the intentions are. Really great stuff, very enjoyable to watch... and to analyze ;)

COMBINATIONS We practice combination play every training. These moments hit my 3 Es: Enjoyable to play Entertaining to watch Energising to coach Perhaps time to start practice finishing too… #coaching #football #nzfootball

@MacAodhagainJ Sounds like they have valid reasons for being the “bad guy”… hopefully they provide some meaningful compensation

The Fun Part 🕺💃 You remember, don’t you? When you were a player you despised the boring drills and loved the dynamic training games. So you’re in charge now - let them play. #TOVO

@ootai2 @ChristchurchUtd Yep: fantastic working with players that are intrinsically motivated

A five star home performance! 💙⭐

RAMS vs DUNEDIN CITY 5-0 win Fun game, we moved the ball well and played consistently well in tight spaces. This goal may look fortunate but its straight from the training ground, we sucked the opponent in, we broke their press, and with counter pressure we forced the error.