10 minutes before the session we already organized the boys in pinnies ready to go. Compared to outside, you have to stay more organized indoor because the clock is your master.
We repeated a zig-zag passing drill from Tuesday. I believe in doing a drill at least twice to give the boys a chance to shine at it. Not everybody gets everything the first time. And, with 32 kids out, if you have too many drills, but the time you get each organized and the boys ready, too much time has passed.
After doing the zig-zag passing we ran a simple exercise with one player running with the ball, the other starting from behind him, 15 yds to his side, then running past him. When the player with the ball reaches half he sends a ball forward for the other player. One thing I want to fix is getting the players forward when a teammate the has the ball. Too often they run with or behind their teammate with the ball. That works great in rugby, but we're not playing rugby.
During the game portion of he night (45 minutes) players were getting forward and looking for penetrating passes. And players were looking to move the ball forward while running. Mission partially accomplished.
The boys have now had 2 sessions to shake their winter rust off.
Next Tuesday we will spend more time on technical work and Thursday we will spend more time playing. After Thursday we shrink the list down.
