Johns Blog

John Northey’s Official online blog. This area will cover a range of topics and may often include a football drill that can be discussed directly with John and the Swooper Coach team.

Positions in your Coaching Team

Positions for your coaching team at your football club. Suggestion / idea only A layout of positions that need filling to make the coaches position a little easier. It is not easy to fill all these position, particularly in the country areas, fill whatever you can.    

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Football Forum

                            Football Forum Invitees President Board Coach Invitees                                       AGENDA Action on all positions. Coaching/Support Staff — Current Structure, Requirements Contracted Players Recruiting Current and Future Status Player Welfare Pre-Season Invited Players, Dates & Camp Club Leadership/Player…

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Melbourne FC. First final in 23 years (an extract from my book)

Coaching Melb. at the time I have always look for different ideas rather  than the norm. This was our preparation prior to the most important game in 23 years for the Melbourne FC. The last game of the year was at Footscray against the Bulldogs. This is as we all recall Gary Lyon broke his…

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BELIEF COURAGE PERSISTENCE

BELIEF Belief is the knowledge that we can do something. It’s the inner feeling that what we undertake, we can accomplish. For the most part, all of us have the ability to look at something and know whether or not we can do it. In belief there is power. Our eyes are opened; our opportunities…

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Coaches

Looking after our young players is so important, how do we handle different situations. Enclosed a wonderful quote, makes you think! Click on Life Emotions Life Emotions

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Teaching Respect

As coaches we are responsible for all parts of the game as well as teaching our young players to respect all personnel on and off the field. We Coaches, Teachers and Parents are all Role Models for our younger generation. Click on Respect to open file. Respect

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Swoopercoach is an online learning centre for coaches and players to Commonsense Coaching created and managed by John “Swooper” Northey & his expert coaching team.

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