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Pressure's on - Coaching Decision Making

Total Control Under Pressure - When teams performances unfold late on in matches and players seem to struggle to make the right decisions its usually to do with fatigue and pressure. How can coaches help players to improve in this area

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Very conscious with our group making sure that we're creating a positive environment where there's lots of encouragement and learning and that we don't want training ever to be boring or not stimulating or not. Challenging his first block we're going for five minutes. It's flat stick. Jose Green Team attacks in blue team will Tak we're punching through getting really super quick ball lightning quick ball from there. Okay Green Team on the try line Blue Team out. We tend to train a really high intensity. Okay. Let's play out from here. IJ second Bull Run getting the game getting the guide rod getting the game. They don't know him. Portal boys reload reload, you got to reload faster. We try and train over speed training. So we did three blocks of five minutes at overspeed where basically we don't want anyone to walk for five minutes. And so we're constantly moving. We're challenging the players to think fast. Yeah, hey free. Kick Arch. Okay blue team, Joe gotta grab a shield. We're making decisions faster in training. Then we have to Indigo and the idea is you know is the is to have that overload effect in training. So when you get to a game the game should be simpler. So I tell all that great for prepping me boy. What a bold way. I want to bore me, please. Let's go Green Team Green pack. Let's go those simple things done really? Well consistently is very hard to do. A lot of people think that you know, they try and overcomplicate things. But if you can get the basics done well and get it get your players to do it consistently, you're going to be a very successful site and it's as I said at the beginning it's very very difficult to do and that's what differentiates good teams two. Great teams. I believe you yeah case here I'm is plenty of width plenty of with you up and through answer. Yeah, Casey you are my yep. Hit me. Hit me. Probably bull. We always try and concentrate on any drill that we do at training. We want the player to be able to take that skill exactly what they're doing at training and transfer it into a game. So the handling stuff we were doing earlier on we make sure we're really hard on the guys with the accuracy and the speed of it because in a game that's what you're going to need to do. So we don't want to we don't want to practice or encourage the guys to practice bad habit.