Go Forward Plan – RHFC Coaching Project 2015/6
Long term strategy
Short term wins
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.”
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Coach the Coaches – Education in football (create “coaching tool box”)
Advise the Coaches – Education in organisation skills
Change current structure – turn RHFC into a team of coaches (academy to senior)
Find, adopt, implement a “Harps Style” of play. (e.g. 4-3-3 embrace FAI ETP)
Create internal support structure - helping each other
Understanding that change not for sake of change – change for improvement
Preparation – getting ready for 2015/16 season now
Coaching framework/strategy – “The Ratoath Harps Way”
Analyse other successful clubs – copy strengths, avoid weaknesses
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
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT......................................
Ladies/
CURRENT
RHFC
STRUCTURE
Girls
Coaches
Academies
Small sided
Coaches
Welfare &
Liaison
Officers
The
community
INTERACTION VIA
FOCAL POINT
11 a side
coaches
Seniors
coaches
Ratoath
Harps
FC
Groundsmen &
Fas Volunteers
Executive
Committee
Football
Committee
Sponsors
Fixture/leag
ue
Secretaries
Parents
RHFC IS THE
UMBRELLA NOT
THE FOCAL
POINT
Football
Committee
Executive
Committee
COMMUNICATION
ALL Coaches
Groundsman
&
The
Academies
Fas
Volunteers
DEVELOPMENT
OF FOOTBALL
Fixture &
League
Secretaries
Sponsors
The
Community
Welfare &
Liaison
Officers
&
The Schools
Parents
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 2015/16
Coaching 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