Very small brag post

[TheChipPrince]

Only conceded 5 all season ... you must have a good keeper !

and lost 3 games, must have won every game 2-0/3-0!

[Matt50]

Only conceded 5 all season ... you must have a good keeper !

and lost 3 games, must have won every game 2-0/3-0!

Very solid defensively (i was a keeper, all the best teams are built around being solid defensively!!!!).  17 clean sheets in 21 games is fairly impressive.
We had a run in the middle of the season where we only scored 3 goals in 5 games (3 1-0 wins and 2 0-0 draws).  Amazingly our last 3 results were 7-0, 6-0 and 3-0 so we had only scored 27 goals in our first 18 games!

Next season we move to 11-a-side and will be entering a much tougher league.  It is going to be a real test to bring in 4 or 5 new boys, gel them together and make them all understand the offside law!!!!

[Longines]

Matt, have you done any of the FA courses? I'm just a Dad-coach but I'm thinking of doing the Level 1.

Our goalie's Dad is a UEFA 'A' who works in the Championship!!! No pressure on me then...

[Matt50]

Matt, have you done any of the FA courses? I'm just a Dad-coach but I'm thinking of doing the Level 1.

Our goalie's Dad is a UEFA 'A' who works in the Championship!!! No pressure on me then...

I have done my Level 1 badge, but mainly just use some of the training sessions that they teach you there which are quite good.  It is a very basic course really mainly for people that havent played the game but are looking to get involved with coaching

I am quite lucky that i played Ryman league football, so have played for some very good managers and coaches so i have picked up quite a bit along the way.

It can be very intimidating taking a coaching session with someone like that watching - at our club we have 2 UEFA A coaches and whenever they are watching me put on a session it always worries me that i might do something wrong!!!

[GlasgowBandit]

Well done to you and your lads mate.

[Longy]

Congrats Matt, though wtf at the lack of goals at both ends. My memories of playing u10 football was that most games had at least 4 or 5 goals in them if not more.

[Longines]

I'm guessing you're older than 21 Longy....

In '98ish the English FA mandated that no-one under 11 was allowed to play 11-a-side football with full size goals any more. They now play mini-football on a roughly half-size pitch with 12'x6' goals.

We still managed to score 72 times in 14 games - won the first game 10-3.

[GlasgowBandit]

Ten Twenty Oner FTMFW ohh and 25 aside.  Easy.

[Longy]

I'm guessing you're older than 21 Longy....

In '98ish the English FA mandated that no-one under 11 was allowed to play 11-a-side football with full size goals any more. They now play mini-football on a roughly half-size pitch with 12'x6' goals.

We still managed to score 72 times in 14 games - won the first game 10-3.

Aaaah well i never knew that, makes a lot of sense tbf. As standard tactics were to shoot high in that age group as the keepers couldn't reach it.