 Well, first of all, it was a very different job. I was an academy director at Newcastle and then an academy director at Everton. There was two very different roles because academies were so different by that time. Academies had just started when I started at Newcastle. Yes, I was in charge of the academy but it was quite a small department and I coached. I worked with the new intake every year and looked to develop them into then passing them on for the next academy team. By the time I got to Everton, the department was absolutely enormous and I found myself stuck behind the desk which was frustrating but necessary because my role was academy director. What's important in terms of developing players? Well, first of all, technique because they don't have the technique. We talked about it before the session that if they don't have the technique then they can't actually put things into practice. They can understand tactics, they can understand what it is that you want them to do but if they can't actually perform the technique then they're not going to be successful. I get coached at tennis and it has to teach me technique. We could play games all day long but that won't make me any good as far as a topspin backhand is concerned so it needs to work on the technical part of it. Many years ago I heard Ruth Hull saying there are no tactics without technique and I agree with him you have to have those techniques embedded first of all. It's great nowadays for academies because you have the players so long that actually the technical work should be done at that youngest age and you should be continuing to improve the technique making sure that you don't lose techniques that you've learnt as a younger player but it means that you can move them on to the more tactical side of the game quicker. When I first started in academies we didn't have the players out of school and things like that so you were starting them at a technical level and the first couple of months of me working with players who had left school was to really polish up the techniques. Once the sooner you can move on from them because you're satisfied with the level of technique of the players then the better because then you can start to really teach them the game and it then becomes about their understanding it comes about even down to game management so we wrote a full programme for the academy as academies do I feel coaching curriculum and it was very much at the youngest age groups, technique, technique, technique and that was a way up here in very little tactics and it gradually swung until it was keeping them top top making sure that the techniques are still as they need to be but let's you know the oldest groups need to know about game management it can take them 12 years to get into the first team in 10 minutes to get out if they don't know how to manage the game properly