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Thanks for the lecture link.

The book I've got is Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success. Covers the Pyramid and a number of other areas as well. Some great stuff in it

There are some amazing books about and by John Wooden. All are worth a read - an amazing coach and teacher.

I've only ever been able to find one video of him:

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_wooden_on ... ccess.html

Well worth a watch.

Can leave you exposed on the break but you can mitigate this with a double invert. Get your shorties playing behind and it makes it a lot harder for them to break (unless they've got really athletic and offensively minded poles) Other benefit of this is that poles tend to be quicker to slide to shor...

With all the above in mind I want to look at a (from behind) 2-4-0 offence. Two behind playing a two man game, looking to create separation with on-ball picks; two guys on the crease doing everything described above with no off-ball, sloughed in, D men to worry about and two guys on the wings. Wing ...

We have a two man set at Steelers. I don't want to give too much away to our opponents but it's originally titled Two Man so shouldn't be too hard to spot! It's less of a focus this season as we have some excellent dodgers and feel we can generate quality shots out of dodge, pass, pass re-dodge offe...

The England zone in the World Championships was a basic box with a backer in the middle and an additional 'floating' player who picked up anyone else on the perimeter. The zone was designed that way as the box shape is suitable against a lot of offensive sets and enabled us, with only minor movement...

Sheffield Steelers would definitely be up for some friendlies and we're reasonably local. I'll drop you an email.

The plan is for this now to be a rolling programme year on year. The age groups of U15 and U17 have been chosen as they are 4 and 2 years behind the U19 age group giving us an excellent lead into the World Championships. The U19s then feed into the seniors and hopefully, as the structure becomes est...

The England Seniors will play the U19s this coming Sunday (22nd June). It's a 2.00pm face at Wilmslow. This is the final game the U19s will play before leaving for the World Championships and we'd like as big a crowd as possible!! Please pass the message onto anyone who might be interested and come ...

Zac is at Lafayette HS. His dad was an LDO a few years back and went home with an English wife from Heaton Moor! Matt has an English father and curently plays for Wittenberg University. Jordan Levack is also based in the States and has an English father. Our final two overseas based players are Sam ...

The ELA are looking to get it up on the site today but I can confirm the squad as follows: Position Name Goal Dan Grime Ant Hayes Defence Rob Grubisic Jordan Levack James Prescott Jak Warzyniak Jack Woodhead LSM Eddie Dolan Tom Leahy Midfield Mike Armstrong Freddie Evans Tom Giddings Pete Hayes Max ...

Nige Gates played at Nottingham in goal a few years ago.

He was a helicopter pilot in the RAF at the time and I assume he still is.

Has anyone from Nottingham got contact details as I'm sure he'd be interested in getting involved with a services team?

The U19 league, which the National Squads fully support, runs from November to January. It's not possible for us to stop training and scrimmaging for 3 months. We'd be miles behind in our preparation. Obviously during the season we can't train on a Saturday so Sunday is the only other option. We've ...

I can confirm that clashes are far from ideal but are unfortunately unavoidable. Thanks for the words of support Nikon. When coaching the senior team I made an open offer to this forum to answer any questions people might have about the national squads. I'm happy to make the same offer with the U19s...

Head coach for the England senior men's team is Dave Elwood.

He is being assisted by Phil Collier for these games.