 going to make a start everyone first of all I'd like to say a massive welcome and thank you for everyone who's signed up to the webinar and who's joined us live right now. My name's Paul Bright I'm the technical director for the coaching manual and today we have a fantastic webinar lined up for everybody. The session that we're going to actually look at and cover and breakdown is available on the coachingmanual.com and any comments on the session on the live feed you can also put on social media on Twitter at coachingmanual. So just to before I introduce today's guest I'm going to introduce today's structure of the webinar so everybody's clear on what the outcomes are and what we're looking to achieve today so we had the pleasure to film with the League Managers Association with our special guest today a full session late last year at St. George's Park in the UK so we are going to introduce the session we're going to break down each practice within the session to look at the real detail the coaching delivery the methodology and the underpinning knowledge behind it and throughout the webinar and we will be moderating and taking live questions and also if we do not get chance to answer your question in today's webinar we will also provide a review and a follow-up piece on the coachingmanual.com to obviously answer your questions and get you to be able to tap into to the knowledge of our special guests. So on to our guests today one of the most experienced and respected coaches globally our guest today has worked at every level of the game from youth players within the grassroots game all the way through to to Ballon d'Or winners who are applying the trade at the very very high levels of football. Previous experiences and roles include skills development coach at Manchester United so really creating the underpinning coaching philosophy and methodology at the club which have gone on to produce a number of high quality professional players. Our guest has been a first-team coach and Premier League manager with Fullham Football Club and also with Brumbay. Our guest has been a consultant for MLS club including Philadelphia Union and is the current assistant manager of the Australian national team and many people within the US may also know Rennie through his work with the Mullinstein method and GIS and his work across the US in working with youth players. So on that note Rennie a long introduction there but absolutely fantastic to have you on and thank you for joining us. Thank you thank you so much Paul and thank you for having me for this webinar I thought it was it was a great session that we we did I think the webinar especially in this difficult time with the with the coronavirus it affects everybody it affects everybody that is involved in football as well so what better way to use those webinars to again to get an opportunity to learn you know for people and that's that's where I'm here for I'm here to share my experience and my expertise that I've gained over almost 40 years of coaching and as you said at any level of work at any junior level senior level and white right all the way to the top and so so that's good so I really hope that the people that are you know joined into this webinar after this hour will benefit from it from an educational point of view from an informative point of view and I we're looking forward to do many more in the not-to-distant future. Back to you Paul. Fantastic Rennie thanks thanks for that and thanks for the introduction so I'm just gonna start the webinar off with one of a quick overview clip really of the session that that we captured with you down down at St George's and from there we will get into obviously your underpinning coaching methodology before we set the scene so if you don't mind bearing with me one minute. Very simple we start with two balls straight away you guys use this channel to go to that side you guys use that channel to go to that side. Sorry what's your name again? Will and Dan. Very simple you're sort of in front of the mannequin it's gonna take your place Dan just come and stand on this side it's very simple he decides on this side you know he just comes off a little bit you play me the ball that's it I set you back in there boom you play to this person here you set it on the inside that's it wait wait wait wait I'll be going you take that place and I'll play you there yeah and I take that place the same thing is happening on that side yeah so you just keep going sort of in a circle very simple and then obviously we get game realistic movements yeah nice and sharp setting the scene ready for for your content and what we're about to discuss today so fantastic playing through the third session so obviously I'll hand it back to you just to really kick us off with your underpinning you know guiding principles and methodology around how you deliver everything really. My parameter that I do in past and present is what sort of things that I keep in the back of my head you know to you know to make sure that I can deliver it in the best possible way so I would like to kick the webinar off with with this little slide which I like to share with with everybody yeah that's it so if you look at guidelines for practice then the first thing you need to keep in the back of your head is what is the purpose of the practice and as we know we all work at different levels different age groups some work with boys some work with girls some work with very young players some work with older players or even senior players the key is to be very clear about the purpose regarding this session the purpose was all about you know breaking lines forward passes forward runs that is what I wanted to achieve with this group of players which I've never worked with the group of players was a selection of university players so I had to try to gauge their level as well and that is what I was doing with that passing drill where basically I wanted them to introduce to the principles of the session and already getting to think about you know what the session is all about it's about thinking forward looking forward play forward runs so that was the purpose now if you know the purpose the next thing then you need to start thinking about what is the organization going to look like in the different parts of the training so you have a warm-up you have a middle bit and you have a sort of an end to the practice which is normally most of the time the game situation so you need to think about the organization what are the key things you need to think about again you need to think about the level of the players that you're working with regarding the level you need to then start to think about the distances that you use yeah because when you work with very small players don't make the distances too big because it will not work same vice versa if you work with all the players and the distances are too small it will work either it's it's part of a little bit of the experience that you need to have in this organization I think I worked sort of in between you know sort of between 10 15 and 20 meters all the way through and then throughout the session you go into a different setup from box to box later on it became more a game situation but it's important that the organization links with the purpose what you want to achieve the organization needs to work for you yeah that's important if you do different things in training like we all do it's important that you prepare yourself well that you don't lose a lot of time when you move from one section to the next try to set up your organization that you go from you know part A to part B to part C with maybe just taking a few cones away or adding a few things or a few goals whatever it is but minimize the time for the players that they are not really active because of you organizing the organization if the organization is set the first thing then what I do is I give instruction you put the players in the right position whatever you want to do and then you tell them this is what we're going to do it's important to understand that players they all learn in different ways yeah some you can tell them and they understand some players you have to show them some players actually only get it when they do it so every player has got different buttons to press you need to make sure that when you give your instruction you cover all those three elements yeah you tell them what to do you show them and demonstrate and then you let them do it whilst they're doing it yeah there is your your first moment to observe the players and are the players doing what you set out in that organization are they going into the right direction are they passing in the right direction to the right player whatever it is you just there to observe and that observation only needs to be a very short period of time because you need to look if the players understand what you mean are they doing it in the right way if for example they don't understand then you have to go back to the instruction you didn't have to say okay guys just hold it there for a minute let's have a look that's and then make sure that you highlight the points where it did go well that's key that's an important element for the players to understand to get it right yep most most likely they will get it right there will be understanding and then you can already start to give some general coaching comments in terms of in the passing rule that we were doing I as you said in the little clip that Paul showed you it was about coming off an angle the first pass set it in front of the player not right to his feet and then obviously you talk about other things like ball speed etc and that sort of stuff from the general comments you then go again when the exercise is going again you observe if the players understand yeah if they don't understand you just go back to your general comments you just highlight again a few good practices and few examples of play and after that you can again reinforce a few general comments to make sure that the players understand what you're after if you do understand that's great you then go to more specific comments now this is where you really produce in the exercise this is where you can really see whether you have to get the players you know you challenge the players you progress the players so you talk a little bit more you know in detail it's eye to detail so if it's a passing rule tell the players to play the right ball speed over the right distances yeah so they need to understand to when to pass it really firm really crisp they need to understand when to take the pace of the ball to cushion it you have to understand that they need to play it on the right foot you know whether it's on the right foot or the left foot they need to understand all those things when they receive the ball can they receive it in a first touch that it straight away takes the ball in the direction you want to go so these are all specific comments it's all eye to detail that really makes the exercise when they call it give the exercise again it all depends on the age and the level you're working with yeah if again you look after this specific moment you look at if there's understanding again if there's no understanding yeah you might have to go back to some general comments that means for older players or you might have to go back to some more specific comments to begin to get the players to understand exactly what you want yeah this is a process that sort of runs through my head whenever i'm doing a training session obviously be aiming to get the players to understand which is mostly most likely you know a possibility and you like to sort of progress through the session now with that progression that can be a progression within the same exercise could be anything you know a pass the ball on the floor pass the ball through the air you know conditions of two touches or or free play whatever you can put in progression can be done by many different things yeah conditions you put on it or area should change numbers should change whatever if you carry on in through the session you progress to the next part of the session you're back to the same thing because you're going to set up a new organization you know like we do going from part a to part b we go from a passing drill into a sort of a wave attacking scenario where we go box to box it's a different organization it needs a different instruction and we go around again exactly as we did it before so basically i wanted to share this with you because this is a really good model if you practice this and you have this in the back of your head you hardly can get any wrong by making your session a success so hopefully this helps so this will also be a little bit of a you know as you know a guidance for us to get through to the rest of the sessions okay paul fantastic so um clay clay guidelines and a clay model developed over you know a very long and successful career in coaching and there was a few things you touched on which are really evident within within the practice in the sessions that we captured so you know i've made a number of notes on the session that's available online and what one of the first things i pulled from the session from the start in the opening first 10 20 seconds was the fact that you didn't know these players but straight away you're trying to build that connection by asking them the names and and how important is that in terms of building a rapport and connection before you can even get your detail out yeah i think it's very important um i feel that i've had examples where coaches didn't do it and then it becomes really really impersonal i think when you do take the time and i sort of learned it you know by by basically trial and error to find ways and means to try to remember the names as quick as i could and then it becomes personal so it's better to you know to show the name whether johnny or peter or and then they were far more receptive straight away um you can see that so it's just a little a little thing that i think is very very important and it makes it you get into it an easier flow quicker with those players brilliant and then you talk obviously in the model you talk about the the organization and the instruction something what was you know it came through very very clear was was the level of detail but also the instruction there and and after you answer this question i want to show a clip of some of these examples but from the off you talk about game realism you know you're talking about body shape sideways on the the detail was very very high um what what was you thinking and approach with that i'll show a clip afterwards just to just to demonstrate what we talked about yeah obviously the the session that we did you know with the coaching manual then for the f.a. it's obviously been being viewed i think by most coaches or a lot of coaches that work at it you know at an advanced level where i to detail is very very important um you know the first most important thing for every session to make it work make sure you get the basics right um but a lot of value a lot of value in a lot of sessions is lost because of lack of i to detail you know i mean one of one of the the biggest qualities that that top top players possess is imagination and you need to try to bring that imagination in the sessions what what training is training is creating an element of of the game which you take out and create you know an organization where the players have the ability to practice it over and over again because practice training is repetition yeah and success that is what you need to try a place to experience so you can only get better at something if you do it over and over and over again that's why we've come up over the years for so many different training drills and exercises that all need to have that level of repetition in there and the key is like i said the higher the level the more detail should go in there the more game realistic you want that exercise to be you can make it really strip it down really really basic you can make it really really advanced and like i said every every particular position in that little passing drill there are things that you can say listen what are the end positions what do we want there first touch in front of them the players around the mannequin the movement you know the dummy come off at an angle why not come off straight because if you come off at an angle the mannequin so you can see the defender you can see the opponent you know and you can see where the ball is coming from these are little things you know as i mentioned is i to detail which is very makes a big difference at the top level yeah i think i'm gonna show a clip now any of that's okay with yourself some of those things you've just touched on there so let's go tick set plate good set bang plate and follow good and the next one goes good come off set good nice great get a feel for it that's all is good tick brilliant great come on keep going keep going good make sure you talk to each other come off angles good angles great bang bang that's it obviously touching on that clip straight away the the session the first part of this individual this practice story is in full flow and and you're talking all the time about angles you know the the use of praise all the time and this is this runs as a constant theme throughout all of all of your practices as well so in terms of what you was trying to achieve at the start and linking it back to your model what we're exactly looking for before you could make that next progression if you're like yeah no the thing is this ball it's all about you've got in your back if you hadn't like I said the purpose how you want that session to finish and what the outcomes would be to get the players from A to D so to speak from A through B through C to D you need to you need to sort of you know help them to get there and try to put pieces of that soccer jigsaw you know into into play so this bit that whole passing rule was nothing else than an introduction so again that the player started to think about listen and need to think forward look forward play for how do I sort the rooms the quality of passing for me was important because I wanted to see what a level was at you know in terms of if the bat the ball is bouncing all the time if the players are not setting it right but straight away I could see that the players had a you know had a decent level it was a nice flow throughout the session back in terms of the positive coaching if there's one thing one thing that stands out in in the things that have learned from the great Sir Alex Ferguson that I you know was was fortunate to work with for so many years was he says the most two important words in coaching are well done yeah say to the place every human being likes to be praised and likes to be told the things that doesn't mean that you can't try to rectify mistakes but I don't believe in negative coaching I don't believe in stop stand still and tell players what's going wrong there's another way and another time another place to do it the key is to coach what is going well yeah and if you see it and throughout the session you hear me talk a lot there might be a clip later on where I'm actually just basically stepping back a little bit because a lot of coaching as well as is don't say anything just observe and basically that is all part of the more you work with those players the more responsibility you want to give to those players the more ownership the players will take and then the lesser you have to step in and you have to then only what I'm doing now is to get the reason why I was so actively involved and positively involved is is because when the players feel that they get constant positive reinforcement their confidence grows and I needed for them to confident go because they think hey we have a coaching session here of somebody that coached at Manchester United that coached at Coltsculls and Ryan Geeks and Cristiano Ronaldo a lot of players could be very nervous about that and I wanted to take that away and straight away through that pass and will that work that work really really well right and and the next clip I'm going to show is is actually a progression so it's clear within the practice even in part A that you saw you saw you know you use your observation you could see the detail you could see the players go and you quickly uh progressed on to the diagonal pass and allowing players to to change change the part of the of the past so I'm just going to share this this screen as well just to demonstrate how René quickly progressed you stay in the same site well you come here so you play it back to will instead of will you go and direct you go in the diagonal yeah so you have to cross over same thing with that side here you cross over there so you have traffic in the middle you need to look at each other same thing with the pass don't hit players running in the middle sometimes you need to delay sometimes you need to speed it up yeah when the gap is there bang play it okay that's the whole thing so we cross and over now starting on the same side let's go go bang set diagonal and follow good that's it fantastic love it bang bang diagonal good good coming to keep going good good communication take the bounce out fantastic great that's a good ball I love it so straight away in that clip the number of things you've talked about in terms of positive coaching you know the last comment love it and motivating players in terms of you know coming back to this game realism which you constantly talk about throughout the session to the players as well what was your thought process with that progression in terms of game realism and taking the players to the next level it was all about the players because in the beginning the sessions you work also in the sessions like being you know very structured from very structured and more and more you go towards that the players can make their own decisions that's where you want to get to you know but to get them going you sometimes tell them I want you to go from here to here to here to get the exercise going this was already a progression where the players had an opportunity to play it straight or play it in a diagonal and then you get you know it's all about it was all about you know diagonal passes breaking lines and then the support coming from it that is what I want I wanted them to experience everything that was needed when I was going into the the next part which I think is what we need to do now Paul is to go into it where it becomes more game realistic the organization changes from box to box you know there is two goalkeepers in there there is I put two banks of four of monikens in there that maybe resembles two banks of four you know midfield and back four there's the sort of gaps and the key is for the players they go in pairs initially and they use the two link players to play through into the pockets through those through those two banks of four and then in behind so you get that really game realistic break the first line get the support break the second line forward runs and then obviously you want to get you know to get to a finish this was all about breaking centrally yeah so the players are going very centrally using the two link players in the pockets so if you can have a look at you know maybe a clip of that pull it would be great so put your hand up the first two yeah which is Harry and Merlin well done so the way that we start Jake is you get the ball that's always something you just roll it in front Merlin you carry that ball towards that line first good touch you start even as well Harry yeah there's a sword of the bill of face then Sun will show in between any of those gaps so you're playing to Sun yeah you support that pass Harry this is basically game realistic sessions now box to box they are game realistic runs yeah a lot of football is played in between the two boxes most running has been done between the two boxes yeah so they did the passing rail basically it's much more free now the only thing that the players need to do is to find those link players in between the two banks of four ideally they want to the pass that goes through the first line needs to hit the furthest link player away so that the one that comes short can spin comes underneath and by that time the other players have run through so he can play the ball into space and then obviously you know use use a finish again purpose organization instruction understanding all those things come back again that's what I look for in the first bit the moment I see that the players the goalkeepers the two guys that get on the ball the link players know what's happening that's the moment where you start to again you know bring some specific coaching points in you know to make sure that you lift that exercise as best as you can one of the things that I haven't touched on in the first part which is important and it's also very important in football in general is through the passing drills is to create rhythm all the top teams in the game in the past and present all the good teams if they're in possession they have the ability to create rhythm and to create rhythm to maintain rhythm or change rhythm those passing drills that we did is very important for the players to get them introduced and to get them to experience what rhythm is yeah and you can easily do it by put conditions on it you know you have to have two touches or you can only have one touch those two things gives a completely different rhythm so in other words if you build up from the back and players tend to take two touches because their patience in the build up it's a different rhythm than when you go into the attacking third suddenly now it becomes more congested and it all has to switch now to one touch football and movement you create a different rhythm good teams can do it it's an element that you need to try to develop when the kids get older you know you know when they start sort of playing into a 11v11 and understand that's what I was looking for here as well so when they started to go they start to slow they maybe play it square but the moment that first ball breaks that first line suddenly the rhythm changes it goes up back through and that is one touch football and then you come to a finish which was important as you I think when the people look at the session you know I wasn't too happy with you know the finishing that was going on and that was again another element another element that you then need to highlight this in guys is too good and well to get us into good scoring opportunities but if you don't score we won't get the reward that we deserve yeah I think you know you touched on at the beginning of your progression on part b the players were struggling to hit the target but I think one of the things you do throughout your session as well is that positive coaching still I think if coaches watch your your session and see the positive coaching even when players aren't quite getting it at that moment and the results come as well and touching on that rhythm from obviously that slow build-up play to to the quick play and I'm going to show a clip if you don't mind running of the diagonal runner that you spotted here if you don't mind me showing this as well because I think it fits in nicely into exactly what you're talking about yeah definitely fantastic in terms of in terms of you know that rhythm and players understanding and getting it in the context the game because you've got a lot happening in in one activity there you've got link-up players having to work out when to drop and when to you know when to stay higher on the line and then the runners off that how important is it that the players themselves can make that this within that activity well very important because eventually that's why you want to get through that's part of the purpose that the players start to understand what's all the run what's all the run to make it's a process you take it in three I have to say you know this this session the whole format that the people are able to see the one that have done we've done this many many times whilst I was at my time at Manchester United yeah and the players the players and you look at the caliber of players that we had obviously at that time you know if you talk about you know the Ryan gigs the 90 dollars the Rooney the skulls and all of them they loved those sort of sessions and if you look at the amount of running that everybody does you know it's a constant really almost you know you're going from sort of you know 50 60 percent eventually you end up to 80 to 90 percent box-to-box it's a disguised running but it's it's game realistic running and that's why I've I've sort of brought that diagonal run also into the passing girl because I knew this is what we know because if you in football only run in straight lines it's very easy to defend but as soon as you start to run in diagonal lines it creates different angles opponents have been much more difficulty to sort of gauge you know what to do do a follow the run or do a look at the ball and it's all part of and that is one of the biggest things what I you know what was important for me as a coach at Manchester United one of the biggest elements that Ferguson was really big on was unpredictability in forward play yeah and that means that the opposition doesn't know what's going to happen but we do so unpredictability can only be there when there's options various options but also when the players have the ability to make that right decision at the right time to play the pass in that right area into feet or into space at the right time to come and show for the ball or to run in behind all those things sort of need to fall into place the more you practice it the more it becomes natural the more the players will take responsibility the more they will take ownership the more you step back as a coach and the more you let them get on with it and you highlight constantly highlight good practices of play that was great fantastic the speed was good that first pass was excellent great weight of the ball great little set support was perfect the timing of the run or what a finish now that is sort of the things that you want to come back all the time because players like to do it because it's great most likely there's always you know a shot at goal or a rebound coming out so to progress from here to you know see into that in that third part with the the third part of the thing was all about and you can show a clip in a minute Paul was all about that we started to bring more people in so this was all about breaking centrally yeah the the eye to detail were for the players that start the exercise was all about you know the passing the first passes into breaking lines but also for players in the pocket yeah how did it come up not never be in one line never be in horizontally in one line all the way high up so one one goes short one stays away and the distances need to be important if you're too far away you know the how you call it the link player that comes short but doesn't get the ball is too far away to support the other link player so that combination is very important to make sure you keep an eye on it because that creates that that quick rhythm in the middle of the park you know up back through so from here I then progressed into that breaking with four players so basically I put two full backs in or two wing backs whatever you call them still the two central players but now they were breaking in force so what I wanted now is is that we start centrally yeah like the full backs do right the goalkeeper gets it and it creates an opportunity to introduce rotations and that is such an important key element you know in terms of building out from the back a lot of people talk about building out from the back we can have a complete different webinar about that Paul if you want to but and really do coaches have the ability to always find that spare man that extra man whether it's in the in the in the the build up third or is it in you know in the midfield or in the second third but where does that extra man come from so I introduced those rotations by one of the link players dropping in between the two central players so it makes a three the other link player stays away the full backs go higher that was one rotation this rotation works very well if you play against two strikers because you're always three one up and the guy that's up you drag the two strikers across and then the one is three can penetrate into midfield there's your extra man or I had the rotation where the two central guys stay a bit more narrow the full backs go high and then the midfield that drops out in between the full back and one of the central players we call that rotating out the other link player comes central and then it's all a matter of again finding that when you pull people out you can play around them and again it's all about breaking those lines the key then is to break on the opposite side of the build up so if you build up on the right hand side can you then break that first line and can you then switch the plate to the other side because most likely the whole opposition has moved across you know to the side where the ball is so show show a little clip of that Paul just to make it a bit more you know understandable for viewers yeah like Renny said this is part of Renny's delivery where he introduces the two wide players and before I just showed that one thing to point out was he was putting players he was asking players where you play do you play wide or do you play centrally so I'll just ask this question before we show the clip how important is it to play players in position specific roles in this sort of activity for that age group it's very much like I said this is you know this I mean this session you could do in different distances with with the other players you know I could do it with 12 year olds but again the purpose would be completely different I wouldn't probably really be too fussed about who is playing centrally who's playing wide who's the link place when you get to 16 and beyond then it is very important so the players feel very comfortable to sort of the areas with the pitch so you put your right back in that position or the right winger or a wing back and the left and the same type so you get the players and it will also enhance the quality of the sessions because you've got players playing in the natural positions fantastic so I'm going to show two clips back to back then I'm going to show the structure and I'm going to show one of your examples about utilising the width and a defend and a midfielder actually rotating out as well when the exercise starts the two central runs you come outside like this the moment that happens the full backs you move on move beyond them move beyond them you're slightly advanced stop there great that's the start of it okay then you kit you come in between well done defenders good well done Connor good that's it great well done oh can we get there need to be quick all okay good cross that great cross this again this this activity progressed very quickly with you introducing a defender into into the practice to really challenge players in that final third what what was the you know what was the the queue for that and what did you want to achieve with your players by then introducing those defenders into it well again to make it just to make it more game realistic as we progress if you would ask me you know listen if I would have worked with this group you know week and week out maybe two or three times a week I would probably spend a lot of time in at this section here because there's so much so many more elements of tactical coaching in terms of building up and creating that rhythm and passing I would spend a lot of time for players to understand very clearly what I mean by rotating in so you saw a few times that the player with the green bit dropping you know but he didn't really completely drop the game yeah what I would have wanted ideally was that he drops even deeper so you get sort of three players and the two central players or the center back to sort of slightly advance you know of him and a bit more you know a bit more playing in between them first the key then is is that you know again is that the timing of okay when when do we now play that ball forward because most likely those three have to outplay you know an opponent or maybe two it is something that I've introduced in the last part of this session where they do have to do that and then again it's all about as well as you know the guys that are constantly coming in the pockets you know that they're making sure that because obviously the mallocans are static that's the only sort of not so realistic thing but if you want to make you know for the players to have repetition and success this is the best way to do it because the emphasis is on getting the players through the lines in the forward runs and using the width that was the main purpose here now because you're breaking with four players now through the lines and eventually I've also had you know one of the limb players giving him the opportunity to break through I started to introduce defenders so the defender sort of took a static position behind the two central mallocans yeah on each side because the waves went on this side and then to that side so two players were standing behind the mallocans and initially one of the defenders was dropping in so basically you still had one one guy was crossing so basically you had three v one in attack so again looking for you know players to you know to finish put a good crossing the one of the other main things now was okay now we're getting into the final third where we're looking for now because this is the most important part this is where the right decision making comes in in in terms of crosses how early do I cross it where do I cross it what type of cross yeah if there's a lot of space in between the defenders and the goalkeeper and the defenders are facing the wrong goal so there's a lot of space you're looking for those early crosses in front in the face of the goal where you know the players can run onto they're very hard to defend very hard to defend and goalkeepers don't know whether to stay or to come yeah then if you move up further up the pitch around the sort of 18 yard line again you look at different sort of crosses it could be a near post cross for the striker or the opposite winger to run across the box which is very hard to defend as well or maybe a flat ball across the 18 yard where an opposite winger can come in and then have a shot from you know in and around the box area if you get to the byline and depending how close you are to the goal it's all about really setting it up you know to the back post space yeah sort of thing or maybe a pullback for somebody to run on so basically loads of things happening in the back in the attacking third now to make it a little bit more challenging for those attacking players I put a defender in if I see through the session that those players have chance after chance goal after goal I then progressed with two defenders so now they're really starting to play four v two can we out play let's say the two full backs have been up the pitch they've been countered against they broke the lines quickly how can the two defenders with a goalkeeper defend the six yard box and the penalty area how can the three four players that broke outplayed him you know and and get a chance in the shot of as quick as possible brilliant and and there's a nice you know there's a nice moment within the practice of you being very very clear in detail with the players on those crossing you know those crossing cues and and based on what space you have available and what you know what options you have available what should your decision be so I would guide all coaches to watch Renny actually deliver that out on the field and it links it links nicely into to the final part which was was then really a conditioned game and getting it close to the game as you can and you started then to out the importance of you know making sure you capitalise when you've got possession making sure you you've got that change of rhythm in the final third to get your shots away and also defend making sure you're in a position to either to defend against the counter attack or if you're the team defending you can counter attack so I'm going to show the structure of part d which was your seven versus five wave and then I'd like you to talk about when you introduce the second ball and why because I thought that was a was a really interesting coaching point about the attacking team actually getting a second ball and you clarified it so I'm just going to share the setup which is your final practice into the seven v five you can sort of make it difficult for but it all play it doesn't matter go past him boom first ball into corner the moment that ball gets into corner blues you can come alive yeah then you corner join him you stay there then you guys come in and you play seven against five yeah unlimited touches keep moving that ball bang bang bang bang if the ball goes out Renny if you don't mind I'm gonna I'm gonna show the the two ball just pick it up come and collect it bang to our life good forward good let's go good let's go don't give it away good keep playing good good find a spare man find that spare man come or you can score as well you can score as well excellent great great great good fantastic relax second ball second ball play let's go don't give it away keep that ball keep that ball keep that ball good keep it in keep that ball good use that spare man song that's it son fantastic magnificent can we deliver or play good one two clever balls great good football and again and again moving it good play on keep playing keep playing yes Connor good yes son good shoot it blue blue play come on go go and go brilliant reds walk out there's even in that short one minute thirty second clip Renny there's so much in there so I'll start with obviously the two ball question of of why would you put in a second ball for for the team in possession even though they've just lost possession what was your thought process behind that let me first let me first say problem I watched his back while it's watching the back right I actually get excited again you know we have to bear in mind it was it was a group that I've never worked with and you never know whether whether you can get it because basically this part and obviously there wasn't the part you know E and F and we talk about it later but you know we wanted to get you know to a level of play where you can actually see the players success in what they've trained there's no there's no better satisfaction for any coach well to see that you know to just to basically something you know that that comes up you think about if you would have not introduced that second ball and you just go for one ball this exercise will not flow because you get constantly break down you know what I mean you know what you will see is that players don't really get a rhythm some players might not even touch the ball the game breaks down it goes the other way so to make sure that the players in the attacking side have a level of success while staying getting into a more and more game realistic playing scenario two things the overload they're still playing 7v5 so they've got two extra players so they should be good to go away because again if you would team them up and you would go 7v7 or 6v6 whatever again I just want to make sure that you in the purpose that you want is that the players are understanding you know lines forward passes this this now is all about yes we come into the final third yeah it's not about breaking lines now it's it's out playing a tight defense so it's slightly different so we need to sort of think about okay back to the first passing drill it's all important again sometimes you have to play play square play around to play through to find have that patience to do it that second ball is then there again so when that third ball breaks down they almost get a second chance you know because it's a first ball if it's a goal great if it isn't a goal to get a second chance but there's also an element of transition in there so play a straight start yeah so they got two goals two goals and that probably goes around I would think you know if you look at it was a clip of one and a half one and a half minute I think which is great because the intensity is there you know what you want a game realistic and intensity so you look always good for quality and intensity these things are interlinked the third ball however I used is to also give some sort of reward to the defending team because at any given moment when that defending team would intercept the ball and they are capable of passing it the first thing they needed to look for was passed into that striker you know that was waiting up front in the attacking half to go bang to break the line that's your counter attack yeah boom straight over so that third ball if it doesn't happen through an interception yeah then the third ball is played into the defending team the defending team can then have a counter attacking a breaking thing and you back to breaking lines quickly and try to you know break in numbers and score goals it's a great it's a great exercise a great drill you can do it in in many different organizations and numbers box to box is really game realistic I chose for five with five plus the three link players that you that were in the black outfit and one of the link players was sort of the opponent striker so the rule the team had one of those one of those players who could only stay in the half and then the other two players you know in the black outfit would help the team you know outplay that pat me fence that would come alive as soon as you would break that first line um ideally with with with first team players like I said I've done it many times United have done it many times now with the Australian national team as well because it's constantly about the same thing think forward look forward play forward that needs to get in at players if you don't tell them if you don't influence the subconscious many players just go the safe way so they go square or back yeah no when you can go forward go forward that's the most dangerous pass the key is is to for players to understand and not to force it not to start playing forward when it's not on now and that is what in those things are happening because when you are in the attacking third and the game becomes condensed more numbers in the tight area you need to change that rhythm it goes into that you know that bouncing one touch play bring it over to one side we'll get it out the other way and then can be kind of trying it becomes more and more game realistic and like I said it's it's a fantastic fantastic session that I've done many many times and over time the more you do it the players get better and better at it and you can see you know you see you see uh some fantastic build-up and attacking play it was it was really interesting to see how the session actually progressed and how quickly the players understood the concepts that you were talking about as well even in that minute and 35 second clip um you see Son the midfielder look to switch the play quickly recognizing the compactness and his teammates staying out wide which was actually built through the progressions of the practice you could see it happening staged all the way from part A through to part D and players then recognizing it in a game situation and I know on the day obviously we was down with time constraints but but what would what would be the end goal in terms of that practice what would be the setup because I know we didn't get there and you touched on that yeah probably depending on the numbers that that you would have got I probably would have gone for probably let's say you know 7-7 you know with goalkeepers 8v8 whatever you call it plus maybe one still maybe one or two uh lane players neutral players so you still create that overload yeah so you still have an opportunity for those those lane players to uh to help the team in possession and the obviously the defending team has to work a little bit a little bit harder but again you're still looking for the same things the other thing I would probably produce again as a progression after that would say that the defending team for instance the attacking team has to almost sort of defend all the way up to the halfway line so when the defending team you know the ball changes hands the lane players become their players so now they have an overload but when that attacking team is defending right high against that halfway line you're back again by breaking lines quickly and getting in behind so it's all about that that early quality ball in behind you know forward runs bang basically um you know a lot of what what what Liverpool has been excellent at this year you know on the Jürgen Club with with their Salah Firmino and and Mane you know very dynamic very direct very there's I think in the time when I was in united in that period between 2007 and 2013 we have a little bit of both if you if you compare those teams you know the top teams with with Liverpool now running away with with the league and being very dynamic very direct very quick whereas if you look at Manchester cities and Pep Guardiola's team it's a little bit more almost keyhole surgery you know it's your passes you know they're working around the pitch you hardly you hardly ever see a long ball going direct or switch they work their way on the pitch they work the numbers up on the pitch and in our time we had a bit of both we had a bit of both we could do this we could keep the ball because we had that's the players keeping the ball but we also could go very very direct again it all about being unpredictable before we play and how how you're executed it all depends on the players that you've got but also the opposition who you're playing against and what are you playing the whole more away great stuff so obviously looking to bring the the session to a close and you open with your guidelines for practice obviously with your with your Munich team method and looking at the setup how does that then support you when you're looking back at the practice and potentially into the next practice does that does that process still apply do you think yeah definitely you can you can bring that model back up and you you go back and start and you look at the purpose of the session and you then have to realistically look okay what have i actually achieved what i wanted to achieve on a scale of 10 you know did i achieve everything 10 out of 10 you know which if you are fantastic you're a fantastic coach you know most likely you start to look somewhere you know i would say between six seven and eight if you have an eight you have a fantastic session fantastic brilliant you you get the players players coaching as well it's all about awareness and understanding bringing players from awareness to understanding are they aware what they try to achieve in this case are they aware that they need to sort of in the house think forward look forward play forward have they got the you know the attributes you know to actually execute it and then it's all about that understanding you know are they do they understand obviously when to play forward the timing that it runs all those things that come in it becomes obviously quite a little bit tactical but that is what coaching is about repetition success bringing players from awareness to understanding you then look through that model and say okay the organization that i chose was that the right one that i have the distances right did the player is challenged enough because that is always an important key in in training sessions if i say um if you would say to me paul listen ready what about a sort of key you know the key pi's of a good training session i would say one purpose always a good purpose number two challenge make sure you challenge the players and that challenge could be anything it can be a technical challenge it could be a technical challenge it can be a physical challenge or a mental one if you look at this sessions a lot of those things are in there yeah there is there is a tactical challenge of it because they need to make the right decisions and they might run there's a physical challenge because they need to make those runs between box to box you know there is a technical challenge because it's all game realistic passing crossing shooting everything goes with it yeah and there's a mental challenge especially in that last in that last game there's a lot of transitioning i keep defending i don't give any way on the ball we need to keep the patience we need to make sure that we do well so the one purpose challenge then i look for two things quality and intensity these are two things that are interlinked yeah if one of the things are not there if the intensity is too high players make mistakes if the intensity is too low it's not game realistic if you look through all the sessions that we did part A B C and D that quality intensity was constantly there yeah you can always ask yourself the quality can always be higher but it was sort of it was sort of there i was happy with it then we put it that way if you've got those four the last thing most importantly players will enjoy it players will enjoy the sessions fun is the most important element of the more than four so again back to the model you will just model walk in the organization think about how your instruction was was that clear so i used to get the players understand quickly if not you need to think about you know how you're going to do that next time what were your general key coaching points that you give to all the players that are important then again you go back to their understanding and then more eye to detail more specific coaching you know to certain players individually you know especially when you work very tactically because you can start to affect different positions on the pitch and eventually you start to look in the progression and your background again so when that that that's why i showed the model the model is there for you to get prepared really well and it is a guideline in your head what you do in the session but at the same time it's a great tool to reflect back on your sessions because you can go through back again and you can just plus and minus is what you think went well or what you think you need to improve on next time thanks for that Rene so just to conclude we are just over the hour mark so i'd like to say a massive thank you obviously to the coaching manual for hosting to yourself Rene i will pass it over shortly for some closing words from yourself for those interested in viewing many sessions that we we captured with the lma go to the coaching manual.com we are going to release this webinar recording and there's been hundreds of questions been sent in Rene so we can't get through them all by by our audience but Rene's Rene's agreed to go through some of those questions and we will produce some materials so that your questions are answered and i'm hoping we can get you back on Rene and really tap in you know to your vast knowledge your vast experiences because it's very very relevant for for coaches of all levels so i'm going to pass it over to yourself if you've got any closing remarks and anything you'd like to pull up i know in north america where i'm based you do quite a lot with your with your mullenstein method as well so anything you any final thoughts from yourself really that i'm handing over yeah i think when when when the coaching manual i.e chris Barton contacted me about if i would be interested in doing something like this i straight away said yes like i said in the opening words it's a difficult time for all of us it's a difficult time for everybody involved in football everybody a lot of people are just tied to the houses and the homes and i think this is a great way still for the football world to connect together we can reach a massive audience a lot of people in time like i said i hope that those webinars are very informative they're educational i hope that there is also you know an entertainment level in there as well at times it's difficult because the only one that i see is paul you've got the sharp straw ready hey yeah but now that's it's important what i do like to say is one for the ones that are when don't please do do give your feedback to the coaching manual we are planning in in cooperation with the mullenstein method and gis global image sport and coaching manual to come up with many more webinars because the football is is so diverse and there's so many topics we can we can talk about in an album like i said i've got over 40 years of experience work at every level and i'm more than happy we're through those webinars to share my expertise and experience so for me uh on this half i enjoyed it tremendously i think time flies when you're having fun yeah okay yes it doesn't mean anything to me so i hope to see you i hope to see you soon on the next webinar thank you very much thanks rena and like rena said we're looking to do more more and more and i've had the privilege to to know rena for 10 plus years and and we can carry on for days rena with this stuff so it's it's it's going to be a great journey and we really thank thank you for your support and for your insight so have a great evening everyone on the webinar um thanks for joining us we do appreciate your support and we'll we'll look to deliver more content of this time so thank you rena no problem thank you thank you