For 2022, there will be weekly blog posts on ramblings from my coaching world. This will be from delivered in an objective and subjective viewpoint, to give you the reader an opportunity (to hopefully) gain some new knowledge and understand my views as a coach.

Why the difference in blogs? On a weekly basis while watching different training and games, I see a variety of interesting things through my own lenses, that then provoke a variety of ‘pop-ups’. These pop ups are gold, as we as coaches could be thinking of something new, that could be unique, or even how we could possibly do something in that situation? While the context will never be wholly understood, the brain will always react to the stimulus and give our own response (interpretation) of what we see.

Most recently while watching games over the Christmas period, I took it upon myself to try and understand the team intentions from certain games. While this is an impossible task, as I’m not part of that respective team, it was interesting to try and work out what teams we’re intending to do and come to my own conclusion.

I then asked myself the question, how many coaches understand what a team intention is and how they do use them?

This first blog post on team intentions, will be posted this Friday!