[Football] Sussex youth coaches - Russell Martin Academy

Sarisbury Seagull

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• Friday at 11:14 PM

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For the youth coaches in Sussex we have on here, one of my under 11’s teams is playing in a tournament on Monday and we’ve been drawn against a Russell Martin Academy team.

I don’t know much about the academy other than what I’ve heard about some disagreement between the Albion and RMA. Is it like some of the academy’s round here where the kids have limited talent but parents with deep pockets or are they generally a high standard?

 

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BevBHA

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• Friday at 11:29 PM

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It’s not cheap, so the deep pockets part of your post is definitely relevant. There are different levels of training available at RMA.

Their ‘development centre’ players as they call it are invite only, so their best players. I believe these are the players that compete in matches for RMA. So I’d imagine they’ll be pretty good.

 

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

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• Friday at 11:35 PM

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I believe they work with kids of all abilities. They have an elite and emerging pathway for players that have been let go by professional clubs or otherwise slipped through the net. They also have sessions that any player of any ability can attend.

As well as that they also run educational programs for kids that don’t currently access mainstream education using football and other educational methods to keeps the kids learning (my oldest son has recently accessed a similar program but based around martial arts coaching).

I would imagine it would be players from the elite/emerging pathways that would be taking part in tts tournaments).

 

Skaville

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• Saturday at 9:04 AM

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It all depends what kind of team they put out. The coaching is excellent. They are mixed ability, but go up to a very high standard, sometimes playing fixtures against the academies of professional clubs.

My lad did a big tournament with them in Sandhurst a few years ago. They took three teams. One entered the top (shield) competition, the other two were in the plate. They won both competitions and the other team lost in the semi.

One thing that will affect them is availability. They will have players attached to all the better clubs. If those clubs attend the tournament RMA won’t be able to select them.

 

Nobby Cybergoat

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• Saturday at 11:56 AM

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They play out from the back with ludicrous abandon and concede masses of goals, but still insist that's their philosophy and won't change.

High press em, and you'll win at a canter

 

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timbha

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• Saturday at 4:33 PM

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Nobby Cybergoat said:

They play out from the back with ludicrous abandon and concede masses of goals, but still insist that's their philosophy and won't change.

High press em, and you'll win at a canter

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Clearly a nod to Saints.

 

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ElectricNaz

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• Saturday at 4:47 PM

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timbha said:

Clearly a nod to Saints.

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Or us?

 

Insel affe

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• Saturday at 4:54 PM

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Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo said:

I believe they work with kids of all abilities. They have an elite and emerging pathway for players that have been let go by professional clubs or otherwise slipped through the net. They also have sessions that any player of any ability can attend.

As well as that they also run educational programs for kids that don’t currently access mainstream education using football and other educational methods to keeps the kids learning (my oldest son has recently accessed a similar program but based around martial arts coaching).

I would imagine it would be players from the elite/emerging pathways that would be taking part in tts tournaments).

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This.
My daughter trained with them for a while, the coaching is good.
She never actually played for them in a game, due to other commitments.
Brighton schools and her Sunday team at the time.
She is now at the Albion academy, to be honest the training is not that different to be honest.
To be honest her Sunday team has the best training and coaches who encourage the girls mentally as well as physically.

 

El Turi

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• Saturday at 7:25 PM

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Nobby Cybergoat said:

They play out from the back with ludicrous abandon and concede masses of goals, but still insist that's their philosophy and won't change.

High press em, and you'll win at a canter

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They actually do encourage all the RMA teams to play that way!

The development centres are open to all. My understanding is that they then pick the best players from all the centres to create a team for each age group.

 

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• Saturday at 7:39 PM

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Insel affe said:

This.
My daughter trained with them for a while, the coaching is good.
She never actually played for them in a game, due to other commitments.
Brighton schools and her Sunday team at the time.
She is now at the Albion academy, to be honest the training is not that different to be honest.
To be honest her Sunday team has the best training and coaches who encourage the girls mentally as well as physically.

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Appreciate the honesty.

 

DarrenFreemansPerm

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• Saturday at 7:46 PM

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For those of you who’ve been doing this for a while, is it standard practice for academy teams to have fixtures against regular clubs?
I coach an u7s team in Southwick and we recently had to play against an academy from Crawley, absolute waste of time.

 

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Bones79

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• Saturday at 8:08 PM

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DarrenFreemansPerm said:

For those of you who’ve been doing this for a while, it is standard practice for academy teams to have fixtures against regular clubs?
I coach an u7s team in Southwick and we recently had to play against an academy from Crawley, absolute waste of time.

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There's more and more of them popping up in the kids leagues now.

 

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• Saturday at 8:47 PM

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Bones79 said:

There's more and more of them popping up in the kids leagues now.

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Oh, was rather hoping it was an anomaly.

 

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Played them today in the group stage of the tournament and drew. They were obviously decent but not as strong as I thought they might be bearing in mind the team was full of ex pro club academy players. TBF, my team is too so it was probably a good match up.

What did surprise me though was that we got knocked out in the semi’s by a really strong side who went on to win it - Storrington! They may have roped some ringers in from academy’s etc as that happens in tournaments but are Storrington known for being strong at youth level?

The West Sussex boy in me was quite proud to see them come in and beat the best that Hampshire had to offer!