Go Forward Plan – RHFC Coaching Project 2015/6

Short term wins Long term strategy

BEST PRACTICE

Primary Goals- GFP:

“Create a football environment adopting best practice in coaching and team organisational skills to give players and coaches every chance to develop their personal skill set technically, physically and mentally.”

1.Coach the Coaches – Education in football (create “coaching tool box”)2.Advise the Coaches – Education in organisation skills 3.Change current structure – turn RHFC into a team of coaches (academy to senior)4.Find, adopt, implement a “Harps Style” of play. (e.g. 4-3-3 embrace FAI ETP)5.Create internal support structure - helping each other6.Understanding that change not for sake of change – change for improvement7.Preparation – getting ready for 2015/16 season now8.Coaching framework/strategy – “The Ratoath Harps Way”9.Analyse other successful clubs – copy strengths, avoid weaknesses10.Find own true identity (end on-going community v competitive debate) bespoke solutions.

GFP is inclusive of Academies, SSG, 11-a-side NDSL, MGL and Senior structures.

Steering Committee:

Current Focus Group:

Michael Connolly – Facilitator/Administrator

Mick Dalton – Coaching

Des McLoughlin – Coaching

Noel Farrelly – Coaching

Eric Cullen – Coaching

Future Focus Group:

All of the above plus YOU

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Updates:

Mick and Des to attend FAI presentation to NDSL Monday 9th March re future of football in Ireland incl allignment of under age calendar to match League of Ireland

NDSL meeting 23rd February – summer football in 2015 for under 8’s and under 9’s pilot scheme – will be happening.

Aidan McHugh looking into setting up password protected coaches corner on RHFC website containing all documents including the workshop printouts.

Suggestions from coaches coming in fast – good content, all welcome – create focus groups within wider coaching forum to examine and deliver

Numerous teams now using the recommended RHFC warm ups.

Next workshops will be planned for week 15 and 17 in April.

Between now and then:

Meetings with coaches individually to discuss their own GFP for season 2015/16Coaching committee panel available to assist with individual training sessions.Coaches meeting – discussion panels on set agenda circulated in advance

Updates:

Examples of suggestions received:

Setting up Roster – take setting up away from ”first on” teams - allow coaches to focus on warm up etcs

Equipment pooling – access to all for equipment not regularly used in training sessions in secure club storage

Create a database that we all add to regularly with directions and maps to various grounds 0 beneficial to new coaches

Standardise the way equipment is put away – easy access for taking out e.g. ”butterfly” the ssg goals