Emerging Talent Programme -FAI

lads can you fill me in on this ?

I was familiar with how it worked from about four years ago,

JUICEBOMB wrote: now its the best players from the schoolboy panels ie the ddsl,tipp schoolboys,kildare schoolboys etc who make the step up,then then best of those are moved onto the international underage teams....think it only starts at under 14's here.....way to late.

As I said in another thread, 2 kids from our under 14s went last year - the 2 coaches sons! 1 was a fair enough shout but the other shouldn't have been there at all.

Dunno about how the development trials are run elsewhere but in Waterford it's a complete joke.

We came up against a young lad for the last 2 seasons in the league who is as near to Richard Dunne as the league is ever likely to find. It was obvious no one from the dev squad had ever been to see him play as in the trials they played him left wing!!

My heart broke for the young lad. I said it to his own teams coaches and they just couldn't believe it

im no expert on how things should be done but why not a gaa style system, the best kids in each county got together from u 8 to u 16 in development squad like system and coached twice a week not once a bloody month,what use is that.

Kingkeano16 wrote: It's once a week to be fair, and the GAA system is roughly the same.. The problem is that these kids go back to their clubs and that's where the problem lies. They are not being coached to a high enough standard. Seeing proper coaching once a week shows how bad their own training is.. Most kids have to train themselves or put in a lot of work themselves during the week.

 

RogerMilla wrote: Kingkeano16 wrote: It's once a week to be fair, and the GAA system is roughly the same.. The problem is that these kids go back to their clubs and that's where the problem lies. They are not being coached to a high enough standard. Seeing proper coaching once a week shows how bad their own training is.. Most kids have to train themselves or put in a lot of work themselves during the week.     so KK16 what you are saying is if the coaches tagged along and saw what was being done then they could bring the knowledge back to their clubs , right ?

MayoMark wrote: 7 of my players have been a part of this for 4 or 5 years now, and when I started to do basic ball mastery skills with them that 6 and 7 year olds can do comfortably, they were struggling big time...

Kingkeano16 wrote: RogerMilla wrote: Kingkeano16 wrote: It's once a week to be fair, and the GAA system is roughly the same.. The problem is that these kids go back to their clubs and that's where the problem lies. They are not being coached to a high enough standard. Seeing proper coaching once a week shows how bad their own training is.. Most kids have to train themselves or put in a lot of work themselves during the week.     so KK16 what you are saying is if the coaches tagged along and saw what was being done then they could bring the knowledge back to their clubs , right ?   Think the FAI need to do a big drive in educating coaches at clubs all around the country and that would have an impact..