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Senior Football Coach Analysis

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The coach of a senior football club is a leader of men and can be an intimidating figure to younger players. They are stuck with a challenge of motivating 20 odd people each week, keeping it fresh and coming up with different ways to motivate players can be difficult. As the head coach they will know which players can motivate themselves and don’t need any extra treatment to get them going. Where as others may need a bit more extra motivation to get them focused on the job at hand. They have to keep their speeches fresh as hearing the same thing every week just doesn’t cut it and players will get used to hearing the same thing every week and it will not have any meaning or feeling to them. If the team is losing every week by a large margin, …show more content…

The second training of the week as the first training is more of a reflection of the past game, before the game and at each quarter break. There is not many ways to plan the quarter break speeches. The coach can write things down during the quarter but there is no prior planning, because they don’t know what is going to happen in each quarter. I did ask my coach whether or not he plans his speeches; he says he doesn’t completely plan them he just thinks of one or two things that he is going to say, such as how we trained, how we played the week before or if he just feels we are not focused on the game. Other than those mental notes he says he comes up with it on the spot.

He often yells to get his point across and this is usually an effective method, especially in the younger players of the team, he was more subtle with what he was saying and told us “The online forums have this team beating you blokes today by 6 goals, even though you guys are undefeated they feel as though you have had no real competition, you make sure you show them why we’re undefeated” This for me personally had the best effect on me and it seemed most team members, as beat them by 15 …show more content…

He then uses this in his speech before the game. This lets everyone who is playing know that if they don’t perform that a returning player can easily be slotted into their position. At the beginning of the year this was a terrifying list for me knowing that if I don’t perform that I may get dropped the following week. Especially when he names all of the people on the list as if he will be selecting all of the returning players even if it means over making changes worth half a

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