The Coaching Badges Podcast

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Merry christmas to all of our wonderful followers from myself & Mark. A special bonus episode to finally close out season 3 & one for the coaching nerds. A detailed chat about implementing a formation with your staff & players using the 14231 formation as an example. We hope you enjoy listening in. See you in the new year!  Support the sho...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join myself & Mark on this episode for an insightful chat with the wonderful Ally Maloney, as she talks about her life & vast experience as a physio in the world of football. Along with some great news from the recent weeks gone by & some superb recommendations in Mark's warchest, we close out season three in style. Merry Christmas &a...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join myself & Mark for a brilliant chat with Irish swimming star, Finn McGeever, as he talks about all things swimming & his life as a high performance olympic athlete. Along with some news from the recent weeks gone by & some great recommendations in Mark's warchest, we hope you enjoy the show. P.S. you'll go a long way before y...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for the real episode 8, an entertaing chat with the wonderful Thomas Gronnemark, as he talks about his pretty unique career as a specialist throw in coaching, motivational speaker & author. Along with the recent sporting news & Mark's War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode.  Support the show When it c...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for an entertaing chat with the wonderful Steve Sallis, as he talks about his distinguisged career in teaching, coaching & people development. Along with the recent sporting news & Mark's War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode. And I know I mentioned this is episode 8 in the intro, apologies, I now kn...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for an insightful chat with FIFA technical consultant & pro licence holder, Sue Ronan, as she talks about her role within womens football. Along with the recent sporting news & a special War Chest with Colin Brett from PlayerStatData, there's sure to be something for you in this episode. Support the show When it comes to Coaching,...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for a fascinating chat with former Celtic Academy Coach, Greig Robertson, as he talks about life within the world famous Celtic Football Club. Along with sporting news & some great recommendations in the War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode. Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right o...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for a brilliant chat with former Arsenal Head of Sport Medicine and Athletic Development, Des Ryan, as he talks about life within the world famous Gunners academy. Along with sporting news & some great recommendations in the War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode. Support the show When it comes to Coaching, th...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for a fascinating chat with former Irish Olympian boxer Kenneth Egan as he talks about life within a high performance unit. Along with sporting news & some great recommendations in the War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode. Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but th...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Welcome to Season 3 Episode 2 of the Coaching Badges Podcast. Brought to you with the support of our good friends at @PlayerStatData  Joining me on the show tonight as always, my co-host Mark Anderson, always good to see you mate. As usual, we have some topical news from the recent weeks gone by, later on Fergus Connolly joins us as our special guest...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for episode 1 of the Coaching Badges Podcast, the first in the new season. We hope you get something from our ramblings. A special word of thanks to our main sponsor PlayerStatData. If you haven’t already check out the amazing work that Colin and his team are producing around data analytics for matches, it’s brilliant stuff. On the show, we ch...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for episode 10 of the Coaching Badges Podcast, the last in the current season. We hope you’ve enjoyed Season 2 as much as we have. A special word of thanks to our main sponsor PlayerStatData. If you haven’t already check out the amazing work that Colin and his team are producing around data analytics for matches, it’s brilliant stuff. On the s...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for another episode of coaching discussion. We chat about news from the recent sporting weeks and a variety of great war chest items. We are also joined by our special guest, Liam Keeley Andrews to chat about all things Futsal. Along with the other usual bits and pieces, we hope you enjoy the show Support the show When it comes to Coaching, th...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for another episode of coaching chat and banter. We review the recent Euro 2020 tournament, we chat about news and a variety of great war chest items. We are also joined by our special guest, Professor Mark Williams, co-author of the bestselling book, "The Best, how elite athletes are made" Support the show When it comes to Coaching,...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for S2E7 as we chat about news from the world of sports and coaching. We discuss pressing in our coaching topic & get some brilliant insights from our special guest, performance coach Patrick Harding. We hope you enjoy the show  Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for Episode 6 in Season 2 as we chat about the pros and cons of 9V9 for U13s. We also have a brilliant chat with our guest Mark O'Sullivan. Along with the War Chest and our other usual bits and pieces, we're sure there's something for coaches of all levels to take away. Enjoy! Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there&ap...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for episode 5 of season 2 as we chat about video analysis in our coaching topic, share some great recommendations from our War Chest & catch up with our special guest, Emeka Onwubiko. There's sure to be something for you to enjoy. Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for a very special episode as we chat to The High Performance podcast co-host Professor Damian Hughes. Damian is an expert on High Performance sporting cultures and a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did recording it. Cheers Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there&a...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for episode 3 of season 2 as we chat about strength & conditioning in our coaching topic, share some great recommendations from our War Chest & catch up with our special guest, Irish International Free Diver, Claire Walsh. There's sure to be something for you to enjoy. Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no ri...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for episode 2 of season 2 as we chat about defending in our coaching topic, share some great recommendations from our War Chest & catch up with our special guest, Mark Eckerle all the way from Canada. There's sure to be something for you to enjoy. Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but ther...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you We're back after our brief holiday with more football coaching chat. Join myself, co-host Mark, Paul, Willie & Mick as we chat about team talks. Graham Merrigan joins us as our special guest as we talk about inclusion in sport & his own incredible sporting experiences. Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or w...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for a look back on Season 1. We chat about the coaching topics that we discussed throughout the series, the brilliant guests that came on the Pod, the Coaches War Chest recommendations & highlights as well as our guests Dream Fantasy 5 a side teams. We are already in the planning stage for Season 2 & we hope to back with Episode 1 in A...

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join us for the final episode of season 1 as we discuss set pieces as our coaching topic & chat with Head of Coaching from Bristol Rovers, Adrian Harvey Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Check out episode 9 as we chat about transitions in football. Niall O'Regan, head of coach education at the FAI joins us as our guest.  Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Episode 8: On the Pod … We’ll be talking about all things football… Our Coaching topic is Attacking….and we’re delighted to have Lisa Fallon on as our guest …. So, join me, Mark, Paul, Willie & Mick for what promises to be another great football discussion Support the show When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there&ap...