Big Thoughts - Small Sides Ryan McNally

Hello and welcome to the Big Thoughts – Small Sides podcast, where I interview some of the best coaches in the game and delve into their minds around how they work in the high-performance environment of football.

However, as like the previous recap of episodes 6-9, this episode is similar as I’m doing a recap special of the past three episodes. After interviewing the professional footballers Tom Pearce and Tom Scully, as well as UEFA Pro License coach Harry Cosson, I think it’s vital for my development for me to reflect on what I’ve learned from them, how I can apply it to my own environment and how this links with the research surrounding this environment.


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Hello and welcome to the podcast ‘Big Thoughts – Small Sides’ where I interview some of the best coaches in the game to delve into their coaching minds and find their use of small sided games in their elite performance environment.

Todays interview is with current professional footballer Tom Scully, Tom currently plays for Accrignton Stanley's 1st team, and spent his youth team days at Norwich football club, prior to this, Tom spent his academy years at Everton and Liverpool, tom provides a range of experiences of academy, youth and first team football and how they use small sided games in their respective environments.

This should be a really intriguing and thought provoking conversation!


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Hello and welcome to the podcast ‘Big Thoughts – Small Sides’ where I interview some of the best coaches in the game to delve into their coaching minds and find their use of small sided games in their elite performance environment.

Todays interview is with Harry Cosson, Harry is a UEFA Pro License coach based in Murcia in Spain, harry is a football technical director and also head coach at the world recognised La Manga Club Sporting Village. Having previously worked with harry, I can vouch that he is a top coach and a take new information away every time I work with him.

This should be a really intriguing and thought provoking conversation!


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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryan-mcnally2/support

Hello and welcome to the podcast ‘Big Thoughts – Small Sides’ where I interview some of the best coaches in the game to delve into their coaching minds and find their use of small sided games in their elite performance environment.



However, today's interview is slightly different, as todays interview is with current Wigan Athletic player Tom Pearce. I've wanted to interview a player for quite a while now to get an even broader perspective of what small sided games means to different people in different positions within elite sport, as we have covered 1st team managers, academy directors, FA tutors, rugby and also basketball coaches. Today I'm looking into how tom as a player perceives small sided games in the elite performance environment of 1st team football, having worked under managers such as Marcelo Bielsa. Tom joined Leeds in 2014 but has since moved on to Wigan Athletic, whilst also playing for the England national team at under 21 level.



This should be a really intriguing and thought provoking conversation!


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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryan-mcnally2/support

Hello and welcome to the Big Thoughts - Small Sides podcast, where I interview some of The best coaches in the game and delve into their minds around how they work in the high-performance environment of football. However, today is a bit different as I'm doing a recap special of the past four episodes. After interviewing the likes of Roy Reeve, David Unsworth, Troy Culley and Chris Sulley, I think it's really important to reflect on what I've learned from them, how I've applied it to my own environment and how this links with the research surrounding this environment.


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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ryan-mcnally2/support

Hello and welcome to the podcast ‘Big Thoughts – Small Sides’ where I interview some of the best coaches in the game to delve into their coaching minds and find their use of small sided games in their elite performance environment.

Today's interview is with Chris Sulley, Chris is an FA Tutor and also has over 400 football league appearances to his name throughout a successful playing career. As well as this, Chris has been a high profile coach in positions such as director of academy at Leeds and head of coaching at Burnley before taking up his role at the FA.

Chris brings with him a great wealth of on the pitch experience and a different perspective as a coach educator he looks into how small sided games fit within coach education.

This should be a really intriguing and thought provoking conversation!

Before we jump into the conversation, if you would like to follow the journey of the big thoughts - small sides podcast and blog, follow my word press blog page 'Big thoughts - Small Sides' Without further a due, here's the interview


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