Coaches
This page is primarily for coaches but parents are welcome to use any info they find.
Away strip. If you are playing either Papamoa or Bethlehem College it pays to take an away strip. You can collect these from the storage room. There should be a board there for recording removal and return of strip. Please collect all the away strip immediately after the game return the strip washed and carefully dried.
Coach training - this is the key to your success as a coach, and the success of your team on the field - if you are going to be coaching your child's team for 15 weeks a year for the next five or 6 years, putting a few hours into getting the skills to make it fun and successful is time well spent. No one has regretted going on a coaching course. Contact Theo, our Sports Director, for more information
Teams are expected to provide a CBR (Club Based Referree). It is preferable that this is not the team's main coach. Try to get one or two of your parents to take on this vital role.
We are running our own in-house training - this is not formal but a chance to share both problems and answers. Please come along with any issues you have and also drillls you like using, techniques that work and we can build our capacity as a coaching unit. The first session was hugely successful, we'll let you know when the next is on.
Brand new to coaching...here's a few tips