Kev Thomas

Research Article by O Hayman et al. (@kthms @GlynHowatson @goodall_stuart @mredumartinez @paulansdell @JSkarabot) #Motorunit #adaptations contribute to the repeated bout effect following damaging #resistanceexercise ow.ly/auIL50YewRj

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 The final study from my PhD 🎓 Using high-density EMG, we show that motor unit behaviour changes during recovery from damaging eccentric exercise and contributes to the repeated bout effect, without accompanying changes in reticulospinal drive in the TA.

Thanks to all the people who are supporting me by condemning the hacking of my previous account @Paulmcg8 and following my new account @PaulMcG8 - please pass on details to others who may previously followed my account - let’s get that 40,000+ connections back! 🔥⚽️

Only a few days remain to apply for this fully funded PhD with @NorthumbriaUni in partnership with @NUFCWomen . This is a rare opportunity to work with two leading organisations and contribute meaningful research to elite performance environments! findaphd.com/phds/project/o…

The Depth of an Exercise. I want to introduce you to Cone Nick. This is not a real person. It’s a persona. This type of coach builds the most professional-looking training sessions. Thousands of cones. Hurdles. Small goals. Big goals. It looks like Premier League training. / Cone Nick is always hunting for new drills. He always has the best training equipment. He needs at least half the pitch for his training. He’s on the pitch an hour before training, already setting everything up. He loves creating the most special training for his players. Which is a good thing. But he overlooks what actually matters: Developing players. /​ Player Development is not about how many cones you use. Or how fancy your exercises are. Player development is adapting to football overload. That’s it. When you play games, players will have problems. That’s called a football problem. And then you help them adapt. Once they do, they’re better players. And we coaches can design games. To focus on a specific problem. ​/ Cone Nick isn't lazy. But he focuses his energy and attention on the wrong things. He focuses on more. We focus on less. Everything we need exists inside simple games. But to extract what is inside the game, we need to go deep. We don’t get there by adding cones. To get there, we need two steps: / Step 1: The first step is to cut 90% of our exercises. So we can focus on a few core games. And no, the power isn’t the core game itself. The power of the core games is your ability to extract what players need. A good coach can extract the football problem the players need inside 4 cones. And help them adapt to this problem in a short time. ​/ Step 2: To learn this ability, you need step 2: Years and years of iterations. With each iteration, you learn what works and what doesn’t. Over time, you create clear input-output equations: “Coaching Action A → Creates this football problem” “Coaching Action B → Helps players solve this football problem.” And these are endless small coaching actions you can learn. They allow you to extract EVERYTHING you want inside 4 cones.

Another awesome opportunity coming out of @NorthumbriaUni and @NUFCWomen for an applied sport science PhD! If anyone is keen or interested in hearing more about the opportunity or my own experiences of the embedded PhD, please reach out!! 💪🏻⚫️⚪️

A unique opportunity for an outstanding candidate to complete a collaborative PhD with @NUFCWomen & @NorthumbriaUni with world-class academics & practitioners ⚽️🎓 applications welcome, deadline mid-December! @KirstyHicks88 @thomaskeeney26 findaphd.com/phds/project/o…

🚨✍️NEW ARTICLE CHILDREN OF PREM Cultural Replication and the Tactical Industrial Complex Link to the article below 👇

Football is simple. You don’t need endless new drills. You need to demand higher standards in the ones that actually matter.

Anyone keen to learn more about the position and hear about my own experiences of balancing a PhD within the environment at Newcastle, please reach out!! A great opportunity to join a forward thinking department and football club!

More amazing opportunities to work with @NUFCWomen and @NorthumbriaUni on a collaborative PhD! ⚽️🎓 Details on the advert. Retweets welcome 😊 findaphd.com/phds/project/o…

@CahairOKane1 Brilliant intervention! I’ve had the pleasure of working with Andy @ACFC2020 top coach who I learned loads from! 👏🏻 ⚽️

Saw this earlier and just thought it was a brilliant video, a great example of proper coaching. “You’ve gotta miss with it now to score with it when you’re older.”

I’ll shout about this all day + night because it deserves to be shouted about. Wonderful example of a great coach in action.

@EnglandFootball 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 love it, I might have gone 3v3 for longer but the pathway looks great ⚽️

We’re introducing new steps to improve grassroots youth football from the 2026/27 season. Find out more ⬇️

@stirling_j The first time I saw the term “positional attack” was in Horst Wein’s Developing Game Intelligence in Soccer book (published 2005). Not as strict as modern interpretations for sure

does anyone know of any tactical analysis of JdP published earlier than these 2014 articles on SV?

Great to celebrate the launch of @NorthumbriaUni’s Interdisciplinary Research Theme “Women’s Sport and Wellbeing” in Newcastle. Women in the Northeast spend more time in poor-health than in the rest of Britain. Redressing this gap is key to economic transformation of our region.

Absolutely thrilled to have defended my PhD thesis Huge thanks to my supervisor @goodall_stuart and all the team at @NeuroFuncNU for such an enjoyable three and half years🎉 Thank you to my examiners @mredumartinez and @gdtempest for such an enjoyable viva experience!

@wallsy06 👏

Decided 2 add refereeing 2 my list of sins! 1st official game tonight. Competitive match, two good U11 sides! Parents deserve a special mention - I forgot they were there!! Fantastic role models. Letting kids play, coaches coach, & a surprisingly nervous old man referee the game!