Nicky Law - Interesting Comments on a New Playing Style

[jhunter 0]

We've had to do a lot of thinking

 

he's certainly ambitious, Mark Warburton.

[chilledbear 16]

NICKY Law has revealed a face to face meeting with new Rangers manager Mark Warburton convinced him his future lies at Ibrox.

 

The midfielder’s future appeared uncertain last month with speculation he may move to pastures new.

But the 27-year-old has told Rangers TV the new management team have left him in no doubt that the Light Blues are going places.

Law said: “It was good to come in after the summer and I had a good meeting with the manager and we had a good chat.

“His message was clear – to give him everything I’ve got from day one and that is what I’ve been doing.

“I’ve come in and done as much as I can and hopefully he has been impressed by me and what he has seen so far.

“For me it’s about concentrating on being here, I really enjoy being at the club and this year there is a feeling of excitement around the club, probably for the first time since I’ve been here.

“We are really looking forward to the new season and the new lads have come in and we have a really young squad of players at the minute.

“The new philosophy and style of play I feel could compliment me and a lot of the other boys style.

“The manager had a one on one meeting with a lot of the boys and I had one which was about five or 10 minutes long.

“It was to introduce himself and speak about the things that he wanted from his players and the things he expects.

“There was no grey area from day one because everybody knows what he expects and the standards he expects.

“If you drop below those I don’t think it would be accepted and you would find yourself out of the team or maybe even out of the club so it is very strict.”

Away from instilling a new philosophy in the players and their play the new boss has been making changes elsewhere and Law has been impressed.

The 52-year-old is a man who believes small margins are vital in the modern game and he has put a number of new ideas in places at the club’s training ground.

Law says he and his fellow players have seen the benefits of the fresh approach and are relishing the season opener.

He smiled: “From day one there was little things the manager changed – we are in earlier now, we have a hydration test in the morning, which the manager is big on and everybody has to be at a certain hydration level before they train.

“It is all little things like the food upstairs has changed and it is a bit healthier up there now, which has got a few lads complaining!

“He is putting his stamp on things and he hasn’t done it all at once, it’s been gradual and I’m sure over the next couple of weeks we’ll see a few more things changing.

“But everyone has enjoyed the changes and been working as hard as they can to impress the management team.

“It is new and it has been enjoyable but it has been tough as well, we have been having triple sessions most days.

“It’s been a different type of training; it has been a lot of ball work which probably isn’t what a lot of the lads are used to.

“Most people have been used to mainly running based pre-seasons then the football comes a bit later but from the first moment it’s been pretty much football based, although we have done our running as well.

“There have been a lot of ideas thrown at us as in the past couple of weeks, it has been crammed in but if you were to see the training that we have done then the lads have clearly taken to it.

“Now we are trying to put it out into the games we have got coming up and it won’t be instant but we can see signs of improvement and that will hopefully only get better.”

 

http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/9607-laying-down-the-law

[chilledbear 16]

Double post

Edited July 14, 2015 by chilledbear

[pete 2,499]

No football training should be without a ball that just shows what coaching dinosaurs we have had at at the club recently.

[craig 5,199]

No football training should be without a ball that just shows what coaching dinosaurs we have had at at the club recently.

 

It is strange though because even in a backwater such as Bermuda we focus on the ball. Even if I get my U10's doing running drills they are either running with the ball at their feet, dribbling or pushing it a couple of yards ahead to run onto. There are definitely times that running without the ball is needed too though - when trying to increase pace, or change of direction - sometimes you want to do that as a specific drill so without the ball is fine - but then you would bring the ball into those drills too.

 

What surprises me is the statement about the hydration test. Why does it surprise me ? Because when I had a tour of Murray Park the year before last and went through the gym they specifically mentioned the hydration test - so was it already in place but the managerial dinosaurs didn't see value in it ? It may, to be fair, have been a variation on the hydration test in that you weighed yourself in the morning before training, then post training and whatever weight you had lost you had to replenish with water/fluids to get you back to your pre-workout weight.

[pete 2,499]

It is strange though because even in a backwater such as Bermuda we focus on the ball. Even if I get my U10's doing running drills they are either running with the ball at their feet, dribbling or pushing it a couple of yards ahead to run onto. There are definitely times that running without the ball is needed too though - when trying to increase pace, or change of direction - sometimes you want to do that as a specific drill so without the ball is fine - but then you would bring the ball into those drills too.

 

What surprises me is the statement about the hydration test. Why does it surprise me ? Because when I had a tour of Murray Park the year before last and went through the gym they specifically mentioned the hydration test - so was it already in place but the managerial dinosaurs didn't see value in it ? It may, to be fair, have been a variation on the hydration test in that you weighed yourself in the morning before training, then post training and whatever weight you had lost you had to replenish with water/fluids to get you back to your pre-workout weight.

 

I think there are plenty of trainings for changing direction you can do with a ball craig which are better than running between cones or whatever. you can put 2 players about 5meters apart who have to pass to a 3rd player. He has to sprint, pass back, turn and sprint to the other player and repeat. This means you are teaching turning, short sprints and building up stamina. If a player does this about 10 times he has just sprinted about 40-50 meters without realising it I believe you can cover all training with a ball although I did some fun things at the end of some sessions such as piggy back fighting, and trying to push each other over a line just to add a degree of fun. I trained an under 15 selection team for a number of years.

 

I am talking from my own experience now and I also believe that young players should be looked at by a sprint trainer at a young age. It is my view that many youngsters don't make the grade because they have a completely wrong sprint technique. I was always considered slow until I was shown I was taking too many short paces instead of taking less longer strides and covering more ground. Andy Murdoch springs to my mind here as I feel he is in bad need of a sprint trainer.

[Ser Barristan Selmy 222]

It all sounds very encouraging. The only slight concern is a lot of the Brentford fans talk about a bit too much emphasis on attack, which isn't something I ever thought I would be concerned about, but football is all about a balance. A weak defence very quickly gets found out in Europe against pretty much anyone.