Help Required

[skilts stilts]

I run an Auskick clinic attached to a football club. Every couple of weeks the club runs a family evening where each coach gets up and gives a spiel about their team. I give a talk about the Auskick. It astounds me that every time we have these nights the coaches use the same cliches to describe the team, the players in the team and their performances.
I was hoping to run some cliches past the Auskickers this week and make a note of their responses so I can use them in my next talk.
The cliches I'm after are the ones the coach uses in his/her address to the players, the highly original stuff like"run in numbers, support your teammate, protect the ball carrier, use the first option, be accountable, dig deep.....blah blah blah"
If anybody has some other well worn cliches they have heard in their time I would be grateful.

[ROK Lobster]

You start telling the Auskickers to dig deep and you'll have the council after you to repair the holes in the goal square. I have no pre-match advice for you Skilts but just take it one cliche at a time. And before your next half-time gig at the SCG, tell the kids the story of ANZAC.

[j s]

Auskickers don't generally need encouragement to "run in numbers" - the normal problem is to stop all of them chasing the ball everywhere all of the time (apart from the ones sitting down picking daisies anyway).

[Glenn]

Not showing them videos of Swans games from this season would help

As for cliches..what can you really say to a bunch of 7/8 years olds, but "go out and have fun"

[skilts stilts]

Thanks for the advice guys.
At these evenings I give out a few awards and last week I told the audience that awards at Auskick, unlike in football teams, are given out for simple things such as getting a new football jumper dirty or getting out of bed early on a saturday morning to attend the clinic, although this years B&F for the swans might be a reward for something as simple.
I was planning on giving the next lot of awards to the kids with
the most original answer to what some of these cliches mean therefore the need to get a variety of different ones.

[swansrock4eva]

The ox is slow but the earth is patient. Can't wait to see the kiddies respond to that one!

Are you going to post the responses up here?

[Wil]

Originally posted by j s
Auskickers don't generally need encouragement to "run in numbers" - the normal problem is to stop all of them chasing the ball everywhere all of the time (apart from the ones sitting down picking daisies anyway).

Then tell them our game plan is so good even the Swans are doing it....

[Nico]

Re: Help Required

Originally posted by skilts stilts
I run an Auskick clinic attached to a football club. Every couple of weeks the club runs a family evening where each coach gets up and gives a spiel about their team. I give a talk about the Auskick. It astounds me that every time we have these nights the coaches use the same cliches to describe the team, the players in the team and their performances.
I was hoping to run some cliches past the Auskickers this week and make a note of their responses so I can use them in my next talk.
The cliches I'm after are the ones the coach uses in his/her address to the players, the highly original stuff like"run in numbers, support your teammate, protect the ball carrier, use the first option, be accountable, dig deep.....blah blah blah"
If anybody has some other well worn cliches they have heard in their time I would be grateful.

Use those cliches to kids of that age and they will not have a clue what you are talking about.

At your next talk speak about the kids practicing the basics in kicking and handpassing. Give examples of how the program has helped kids who were hopeless to start with.

Explain how the drills are used and how difficult it is to keep all the kids attention and under control.

Highlight how parents help, how many drills you would use on an Auskick morning and some of those drills.

Talk about how you progress them from basics to more involved drills such as running in lines, kicking to a fast leading player, bouncing the ball on the run, shepharding etc.

Skilts I have a list of 62 different drills that we used at one of the then biggest Auskicks in Melbourne at Croydon North which in the mid 90's was seen as one of the best 2 run Auskicks in Melbourne.

If you care to send me a personal email with your own email address I will be happy to reproduce the drills and send them to you.

[skilts stilts]

Nico, I think you have misunderstood. When I mean that I would run a few cliches past them I don't mean that I will be usng them during the course of our session. At the end of our "playtime" I will get them together as a group, just before the weekly awards are announced and ask them;
"If your coach ever said to you to get front and square, what do you think he meant"
The answers will be noted and a couple read out at the family night for a bit of a giggle.
Thanks for the offer of "drills", but I have been doing this long enough to have a truck load of drills.