February 2022: Coaching News

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Feb 24

Written By Deidre Bhomer

Team Grader Events

PRESEASON 2022

By Chris Deblaere, Technical Director

What a jam-packed February it has been! The Bathurst and Proctor Cups were held at the beginning of the month. Welcome to Football for our U6 & U7 boys and girls were a great success - lots of happy, smiling faces and parents who walked away armed with plenty of new knowlege of how they could best support their child in football thanks to Coach Coordinator Luke Harris. “I loved watching you play today!” is all they really need to hear you say!

Our new format, “Back to Football” events for older age groups, helped select the remaining Dev Team positions as well as letting social team players dust off the cobwebs and provided a reality check of the fitness level needed out on the pitch.
SAP Development Trials (U6-U11 girls and boys) have just been completed and the Coaching/AC team are madly trying to get the information together and out to you.
IMPORTANT: for all NEWLY formed Dev Teams there will be a Parent Information Briefing THIS SUNDAY 27th, 4pm at the Clubhouse.

How To Check your schedule in TG
Managers & Players

1) Select the following Link - List Teams

2) Click on the button “View Teams” for your age group

3) Click on the button “View Preseason and Training Schedule”

This link lists all training allocations (for the whole season) and any schedule preseason friendlies.

There is much to look forward to in March:

Preseason Skills Training starts MONDAY.
All Dev Teams start training next week.
Preseason Friendlies continue for SAP, DL and SL with Dev teams starting to get in the mix.
There will be LFC V LFC matches for ALL teams mid March, topped off with the
annual Clubwide preseason trial games vs Manly Vale on weekend 26/27th March.

So keep an eye on your team’s schedule to make sure you don’t miss an opportunity - Dev teams start vs North Sydney THIS WEEKEND.

NOTE: Please make sure your Age Coordinator knows who is the Manager of your Team. They must register in Play Football.

Preseason Skills Training

Available for U6-U11 boys and girls new to football or those who wish to sharpen their skills prior to the start of the Winter Season which doesn’t begin until April.
Skills training commences NEXT week so SIGN UP TODAY!
4 week program for $40!
SIGN UP and Payment is via the Programs tab on Team Grader: go to Preseason Skills Training.
Click here for more information or contact Gisell: superskills@lindfieldfc.com.au

SuperSkills Winter Training Program U6-U11

Our LFC SuperSkills program is focused primarily on improving and teaching the core skills of football to our MiniRoos players. Whilst skill development is the primary objective, we also have a centric focus on creating enjoyable, engaging and competitive training sessions which inspire and cultivate a love for football.

Each session has multiple teams training on the same field at the same time. This allows the players to learn and train with a range of players, whilst still specifically training with their match-day team.

The Super Skills Program will run for 22 weeks, commencing on Friday April 1.
There will be 2 breaks for schools holidays on 15 April and 8th July.
Available for U6-U11 teams
Book your team slot then each team member must sign up and pay individually to confirm their spot.
NB Team members cannot rsign up until their team has been allocated a time and date.
A minimum of 6 team members must register to participate in this program
Cost is $175 (for 20 sessions) with an initial deposit of $50 payable on registration.
The Active Kids voucher may be used for the final payment - due at the end of July.

More information will follow. Please do not try and sign up before you are advised to do so.
All teams need to be formed before the sign up portal is opened.

Looking to improve your game? Sign up for this Special LFC & Peak Delivered School Holiday Training Program and brand new Goalkeeper Training Program!

Lindfield FC will be providing comprehensive Goalkeeper training for the 2022 season. This will be available for all goalkeepers -our aim being to give every goalkeeper the chance to take part in some specialised training. These session will be 45 minute trainings and will have multiple sessions within the time slots listed.

MiniRoos teams will be rotated through the program and will be allocated their sessions. U18, MAA, WAA and Overs will be contacted individually.

Only U12-U16 male and female players need to Sign Up on Team Grader. Go to Programs next to Play with Friends and select Goalkeeper Training.

Game Training HUB U12/G12 - U18/G18

The Lindfield FC game training HUBS provide access to LFC club coaching for the winter season. Available to mixed and girls only social teams in the competition age groups.

Coaching will be provided to each individual team by experienced LFC coaches. If teams are short of players then we may combine teams for a session to ensure that all players receive an enjoyable and instructive session

The game training HUB helps teams learn how to work as a team which is essential in NSFA matches and improves their understanding for strategies like formations and tactics while still developing technical ability for each individual.

The game training HUBS will allow managers to sign up any team looking for a coach to help them have the best possible experience this season.

COST: $245 (inc GST) per player. This covers an estimated 23 sessions.
Registration is per team, however each player participating will be invoiced separately.
Sessions are on Tuesdays & Wednesdays and allocated by age group - please sign up to the appropriate age. Team Grader/Programs/Team Based Training.
Payment will be in two parts - the first payment is due by the end of April and the second in July.
You can use the Active Kids voucher for either payment. Details on how to use the voucher will be contained in the invoice.

Team Grader Sign Up

Social Teams wanting their own Coach and Ground: More information will be provided once teams are formed later in March.

Coach Induction and Education

Thanks to Luke Harris and NSFA Coach Development team for supporting a dozen of our young coaches when delivering the first new ‘Block 2 - How We Coach’ module.

Developers and new coaches worked together applying the theory from ‘Block 1’s Introduction to Coaching’ (held the week prior at the clubhouse with 22 young coaches in attendance) ,onto the pitch, delivering real life coaching methods and practices for the first time.

Credit goes to the all our enthusiastic your coaches who showed real commitment, embracing the chance to learn throughout these sessions as they start their coaching journey.

Last Sunday also saw our entire Coaching team come together for a Coaching Induction Day. Paperwork and Admin were completed, stylish new uniforms picked up, and another informative mentoring session delivered from Luke Harris - imparting years of coaching and teaching wisdom to eager ears. Then some fun sharing pizza and a few games on the courts.