Who is it all about!!

After 8 years in youth football, I had my first taste of a full season of management for the ladies team, but 2nd season with the under 11s. Before this time I was used to being coach of teams and as the club knows Francis Powell the most successful manager this club has known stepped down 2 years ago I found myself having to make those all important decisions and looking back to see how to make the hard choices that Francis made. Well I had an exceptional mentor that’s all I can say.

Last season my first managing a team and especially in the cup final I was not prepared as a manager, the team was prepared no doubt about that. Players make errors but managers can make bigger ones, so my own personal aim was to look at myself and how I manage teams. Volunteers look at them selves just as much if not more than players!

We have many volunteers in the club and we owe a great deal of respect to them for the hard work they put in to the club and that is one aspect over the next season I would like the club to look at and involve more parents and respect there time with teams. But then you have to respect the players that turn out every week some for 3 hours on a Saturday trying to improve there ability and the young group with Oddy doing keeper practice is great, name me another girls club in the area with level 1 and 2 keeper coaches!!

Back to myself!!, I hope I have learned over the past 12 months, some good some bad, but we have to venture there to understand other peoples actions and learn from them. Take the ladies team all I do is turn up for coaching and match day the rest is done for me, from there I have to study and understand our team and the opposition again not always right but I promise I will get there. The under 11s, I now have a coach even less work for me, now is a case of study and understand again taking my time but by the end of the season the team won against all and returned the league cup to the club.

As the ladies go into there last game of the season I would just like to say a big thank you to players, coaches and parents for the time you give, I don’t care what any one else thinks all I know is the players at this club are a credit to Rugby and as chairman I look forward to the future of all teams.