Some time ago now we split the Forest Glade Under 6's into 3 groups called Lions, Tigers and Leopards. The coaches feel that this has been very beneficial for several reasons. Firstly by training and playing in regular groups the boys/girls have started to gel together as teams. This in turn has led to better communication between players and has helped us to start identifying the best position to play some of the children in. Secondly splitting the children into these 3 groups has made organising the training sessions much more cohesive and organised as instantly we can split the children into different groups for drills with minimal time wasted. Thirdly and most importantly we have noticed the gap between abilities of players has closed significantly and all 3 teams are playing very well and can play each other competitively. As we move further into the season it is our plan to maintain these three groups for training purposes for the reasons given above.
You will notice from the blog that we have updated this to show forthcoming training games against other teams in our area. Whilst having such a large squad of players is good in that we hope to be able to field three teams next year it has also been a problem in trying to get such games organised for all three teams and ensure that all the players are playing or have had an experience of playing in such games.
Therefore we have a taken a decision that going forward until we start the league season in September that for all future training games we are going to mix the teams and combine players from each squad. This will ensure that we can involve all players in games up to the start of the season in September. The training teams will no longer be referred to as Lions, Tigers and Leopards but instead just Forest Glade U6s. The aim is to allow us to evaluate all players we have and for us to pick three strong squads for next season. Whilst it is nice to win games our overall aim as it has been since we started this is to ensure that the players enjoy playing football and that we continue to develop them as players and people.
I trust that all the parents will support this decision and understand our reasons for doing so, I am of course happy to discuss with any parent our thinking on this.
We also need to start thinking about our goalkeepers and we would like to be in position whereby we have a couple of goalkeepers in each squad and therefore we are going to rotate goalkeepers going forward. It may be for a whole game or just a half but again we think it best to explain our reasons for this if you suddenly see your child in goal one week.
You will notice from the blog that we have updated this to show forthcoming training games against other teams in our area. Whilst having such a large squad of players is good in that we hope to be able to field three teams next year it has also been a problem in trying to get such games organised for all three teams and ensure that all the players are playing or have had an experience of playing in such games.
Therefore we have a taken a decision that going forward until we start the league season in September that for all future training games we are going to mix the teams and combine players from each squad. This will ensure that we can involve all players in games up to the start of the season in September. The training teams will no longer be referred to as Lions, Tigers and Leopards but instead just Forest Glade U6s. The aim is to allow us to evaluate all players we have and for us to pick three strong squads for next season. Whilst it is nice to win games our overall aim as it has been since we started this is to ensure that the players enjoy playing football and that we continue to develop them as players and people.
I trust that all the parents will support this decision and understand our reasons for doing so, I am of course happy to discuss with any parent our thinking on this.
We also need to start thinking about our goalkeepers and we would like to be in position whereby we have a couple of goalkeepers in each squad and therefore we are going to rotate goalkeepers going forward. It may be for a whole game or just a half but again we think it best to explain our reasons for this if you suddenly see your child in goal one week.
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