[Mark Rendle]

Hi Guy's

I coach a U16 travel team who have been reasonably sucessfully over the last few season.

The strenght of the team during the last few seasons has been that we have strong fast forward, which has resulted in the team playing to those strength and playing the ball mainly over the top or through the middle of the field.

However, as the standard of teams have improved and the defenders we play against are also strong and fast the advantage we had in previous seasons is now becoming less of an advantage.

What I've been trying to do during the pre-season practices and games is to get the boys to play the ball wide and open the space up.

After playing 5/6 seasons playing a more direct route to goal I'm finding it hard getting over to the boys that we need to play the ball wide.

Has anyone got any drills or suggestions on how I can get them to change of style they have played for many seasons.

Thanks,

Mark

Thanks,

Mark