maybe "polly waffle" IAE may be getting confused with "small minded games", the one thing englishman are world champions at!

you might want to check that "polly waffle" IAG

A pretty big tick of approval for the FFA when a supposedly superior league follows our junior program.

Correct polly waffle!!!, and you are the most embarrassing export!

English football is obviously the best because of.............all the Arab,Russian,Jewish, American, and all the other foreign billionaires pumping money into underachieving clubs,.........all the best foreign (italian)coaches passing on their wisdom,( and collecting nice pay packets) and all the be...

With the Italian coaches dominating the EPL and Euro this year who was the last english born manager to win the EPL or Champions League?

no matter how hard "polly waffle is an englishman" trys to be intelligent, he continually shows what most people know, by his uneducated support of that english nice person part thug, joey barton, you odviously have no idea what makes a total footballer........people like you are the reaso...

clownboy and annie the best form of defence is attack, at u 12`s?......challenge the kids to take the better teams on, yeah thay may lose but they will develop alot quicker and in a year be alot more competitve,.......................... stack the defence, have an honourable lose, the kids learn not...

No worries, explanation understood.

Rossonero, i thought the whole idea with the stics is for football skills talent identification, in the dark ages was when players were chosen on if you were bigger, faster, stronger, everything the ffa and the ffa do not want players selected on, speak to Richie, Tony V, or Michael Mattric. and the...

give me an unfit "messi" type kid over a fast agile "usain bolt" runner type player anyday of the week, fitness and speed for kids can be gained and improved in four weeks, football skills and brains can take years to achieve a high level, why the ffsa would have someone like tha...

every club promotes players up who deserve it, the issue is when players are dropped back down to a age group or a b team when that team is playing on a different night just to get a win?...some players sit on the bench and recieve no development while others play 2 games in 2 different teams, that ...

great positive story from western strikers, many clubs have been doing this for many years as well, if western stikers really want to continue junior improvment a great place to start would be to take on board what the ffsa is wanting all junior clubs to take on board, that is playing 4-3-3, having ...

can only call what you see and hear,....... friday night game,..junior state b team, wont say the age group as to not embarress the coach, but yet again "croydon" bring down "a" players to a "b" team to play for "top spot", round 3 mind you?......kids talk, es...

croydon try hard not to play too many games on sundays, mid-week games, friday night and sunday afternoon games are prefered so they can move players up and down for those important championship winning games.

some excellent points made.....speaking to other parents and kids from different clubs and the same issues come up every year. a. a zone coach should not be a coach from that age group who would favour his own players, or have a son trialling ........unfortunately has happened in the passed and stil...

coaches should use some common sence, once 5-0 take off your better players, swap defenders and strikers around, instruct players to play 2-3 touch, thrashing teams creates a false sence of superiority and breeds bad habits like tunnel vision for goal rather than team play, another thing to consider...

what about the under 12`s?

well said cabbage!!!!

its pretty clear from reading his posts on this topic that ak co holic doesnt really care if the 4-3-3 is a better formation to develop better quality young players or not. he would prefer we "all" agree with him, say we "all" want to win at all costs, that "all" the cl...

+1

could work, i still think with no points for regular season games, and have a knock out cup round as a competition were you can allow "egos" a fix of playing for and winning something?

just offering it as an idea.....not saying its perfect but it seems to work pretty well with the footy clubs....i just think its crap how every year around trials you have some, not all, coaches ( who havent got the brains to develop their own players) running around trying to recuit other young pla...

zeljko, only up until they are 16, after that they can go where they like, if the club( there may be 1-3 clubs in a particular zone) they have played for has looked after and developed them as good players they wont want to move to another club and if they do move on the club cant complain as they h...

All junior players upto the age of 16 must player for a club allocated in their zone where they live, like they do with junior sanfl clubs,( will eliminate parents shopping round their kids every year and develope club loyalty) and remove playing for points until under 17's.

any update

the ffsa has alot still to get right no doubt.....but rather tha just put everything in the too hard basket, take some positives from them, that as a coach and club you can use to produce better juniors( improving the whole league standard) and improving the coaching you offer thus attracting more k...

And they are.............?

Al co holic, ca you please explain what it is that is more important for the ffa and ffsa to fix and why they are stuck in the dark ages? What is more important than trying to start to develop fast smart attacking possession style young footballers at an early age?
Please explain?

Players like maradonna,pele, etc were taught at a young age to play attacking football which is what the 4-3-3 is designed to encourage......I for one am happy that my club has taken it on board.....for those clubs, coaches, that want to twist it and turn it to suit their own short sighted goals or ...