Coach Diary

4 Nights this week and still criticised for Saturday’s draw…..

Diary entry

Last week I held training on Monday, winter league meeting on Tuesday, club meeting on Wednesday and recieved a text on Thursday from a parent who wanted to speak to me privately after work about a bullying issue on the team.

I worked out that I spent 15 hours of my week working on/for my team which I don’t mind, but then after our game on Sunday I recieved several texts from parents saying this

“We should have an extra training session to work on passing”

“We need to be more physical”

And the real low baller

“I’ll give it a few weeks, not having my son get beat every week”

15 hours a week, why couldn’t the texts just say “Thank You”

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