 The biggest compliment your players can give you as a coach is that when you step away they play the same way because that shows that they truly understand it. Obviously the starting point is the coach. The coach has to lay the sort of framework down, the standards down, how we want to play but then it's on the players. The players make the decisions in the game. So if the players understand penetration as a principle then when it happens in a game then the opportunity to play forwards is on and penetrate through opposition defenders. They will set that decision so it's really important that the players understand why we do everything we do and again my biggest thing would be on that. When you are coaching your players, stop the session, ask them why are we doing this? Where does it fit in the game? Where does it fit for you as a centre-back as a four? Where does it fit for you as a six? When they can start giving you those answers now you know they're truly understanding the principles. For those coaches who coach younger age teams there's still not a problem. We talk about triangles and diamonds all the time, that's ultimately creating space, creating width, length and depth. Young players at any age three, four, five, six, seven can understand a triangle and a diamond. So we may not be using the same terminology but we're already starting to layer in the principles at the game.