A disappointing morning where we had many opportunities to
punish the opposition but just couldn’t finish them off, combined with putting
ourselves in danger at the back on numerous occasions.
Before I properly start, please bear in mind that the
Panthers are a League 2 team (we are League 3).
This match was very similar to the one we had against
Princes Villa a few weeks back – we became tentative on the ball across all
areas and some of our decision making wasn’t great, from back to front – the
latter stings a bit as we ran an exercise on Friday evening that specifically
dealt with what may have looked like overlaps on the surface, but really was
about decision-making which the boys did well with. This morning, we did score
a goal in each half which was positive, but we missed a whole heap of others –
either the post, crossbar or just narrowly wide – we will again work on this in
training over the next few weeks, but at the moment it’s just not clicking.
Three things Arrows related left for me to call out today:
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We are still within the Shield competition
structure, but ultimately we are out of it for this season. It’s important that
you understand why - we are in a group that consists of 7 teams and 2 of them
are from the league above was always going to be tricky, compounded then by the
fact that only the top 2 go forward to the Semi’s (why there wasn’t Quarter’s I
don’t know) – we will of course continue to remain competitive and look for
improvement of the boys over results. This is key and I hope you all understand
that.
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We have a game next week, against a team that
are dominating everyone else in our Shield group. They too are in the same
league as the Panthers so it will be an interesting match. If we do play, I
will look at formation and positioning of players and may make
some adjustments to take some pressure off the boys and at the least see how
some players adapt to an alternate position.
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Finally and the most important thing today –
I’ve mentioned this before at other matches and it was noticeable again today –
parents must stop criticising and ‘managing’ the boys from the sidelines – it
is adding a substantial amount of pressure onto the boys and I can see it in
their faces, it’s really starting to put them off. They play their best
football when they are allowed to just take to the field and do what myself and
Darren have asked them to. Anything on top of that is distracting and confusing
to a 8/9 year old player. The following link is really important for all
parents to watch – this email goes out to the key player contacts, but I
would appreciate it if you shared it with your husband/wife/partner so you all
have an opportunity to see it. It is extremely important. I will follow
this up with a conversation with parents before our next game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLivcha2-ZI
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*****Dynamos Update******
Dynamos were able to build on their great play and result
from last week and taking on board a change in formation by me had a really
positive game against the Upton team that the Arrows beat 6-4 a few months ago
(this Upton team are getting some really decent results against other teams at
the moment). Goals from Alex, Sion and Jack C-P meant that we went in 3-2
winners at the end, coming from 2-1 down at half time. Immense contribution
from all other boys within the squad which are called out in their own match
report.
A great result and again reinforces the speed that the
Dynamos are coming together as a team.
Thanks,
Carl
AFC Waverton u9 Arrows & u9 Dynamos07896 515717
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