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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Malc on December 04, 2012, 10:51:51 PM
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I'll tell you: I am attending the International Coaching Licence course at the FA's headquarters at St George's Park near Derby.
Today we sat in on a session taken by Roy Hodgson himself, and the guy standing next to me was none other than former Scottish International, Birmingham City and Villa manager, Alex McLeish.
It lasts two weeks, it's a residential course, the hotel is ace, the food is delicious, and as long as my knee holds, I will be running round happy as a pig in sh*t..
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My guess was going to be jail, but I suppose your guess should be more accurate.
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Nice to hear some good news. Sounds like even if you knee gives out you will still be hobbling around like a pig in poo. ;D
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This is great news. Alex McLeish could really do with being on a coaching course. Perhaps you can give him a tip or two, Malc.
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Apparently day one is split between learning how to shout, "Get intae thum" in four different languages, and "Defend, DEFEND, DEF.....ah for F**k sake, Scotland", in every language you can master.
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I'm guessing that, when McLeish was speaking, everyone sat at the back with one up front.
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Is that the offside rule that I hear so much about?
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I'm having to cope with one coach assessor who has little man syndrome and verbal diarhorrea.
Mind you, the poor bastards have to put up with a lot. There's an old bloke from Jordan who keeps walking onto the field during instruction sessions to tell the assessor how to run his lesson! I think he's a bit of a big cheese back home, and doesn't take kindly to standing at the sidelines watching.
Not to be too reactionary about it, but he wants shooting.
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Lucky, shooting is on the syllabus tomorrow.
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I'm having to cope with one coach assessor who has little man syndrome and verbal diarhorrea.
Mind you, the poor bastards have to put up with a lot. There's an old bloke from Jordan who keeps walking onto the field during instruction sessions to tell the assessor how to run his lesson! I think he's a bit of a big cheese back home, and doesn't take kindly to standing at the sidelines watching.
Not to be too reactionary about it, but he wants shooting.
She's called Katie Price now, and go easy on him, he's probably just a bit confused after a heavy night. <-
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...or a heavy knight :P
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...or a heavy knight :P
Sir Weighsalot..?
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Progress report: First week sessions completed and I've been graded. The grading system doesn't have a "fail" mark, there is a "tick" to say you've done ok, and an "AP" which stands for "Action Plan", meaning you have to put together an action plan to correct the bits that (allegedly) you got wrong.
There are fifteen sections, and I got ten ticks. It's not too bad, as my assessor is the little grumpy one. I would have much preferred the nice assessor. My assessor keeps talking about when 'e woz at West 'Am (wherever THAT is) and showing off his ball juggling.
A surreal moment occurred when we were accidentally seated together at dinner. He mentioned that when 'e woz at West 'Am, his mentor was a first team player called George Cowie. I told him George now lived in Australia and was a friend of mine. His face was a picture. I wonder how many ticks I'd have got if I'd told him that BEFORE the assessments. :-\
This week when we coach our grading sessions, we have to wear microphones and we are videoed. So glad I've lost about a stone in weight already. The camera adds 20 pounds, you know.
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This week when we coach our grading sessions, we have to wear microphones and we are videoed. So glad I've lost about a stone in weight already. The camera adds 20 pounds, you know.
That's one heavy camera, Malc.
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Progress report: First week sessions completed and I've been graded. The grading system doesn't have a "fail" mark, there is a "tick" to say you've done ok, and an "AP" which stands for "Action Plan", meaning you have to put together an action plan to correct the bits that (allegedly) you got wrong.
There are fifteen sections, and I got ten ticks. It's not too bad, as my assessor is the little grumpy one. I would have much preferred the nice assessor. My assessor keeps talking about when 'e woz at West 'Am (wherever THAT is) and showing off his ball juggling.
A surreal moment occurred when we were accidentally seated together at dinner. He mentioned that when 'e woz at West 'Am, his mentor was a first team player called George Cowie. I told him George now lived in Australia and was a friend of mine. His face was a picture. I wonder how many ticks I'd have got if I'd told him that BEFORE the assessments. :-\
This week when we coach our grading sessions, we have to wear microphones and we are videoed. So glad I've lost about a stone in weight already. The camera adds 20 pounds, you know.
I would have liked to have said something encouraging but it doesn't sound like you are doing very well at that football thing. Either that or that little git has got it in for you just because you are so much more awesome than he is at the footy.
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...er, yes, thanks Diane ???
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It's the taking part that counts. Be sure to tell that to all those luminaries you're mixing with.
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Just spent 11 days searching this place and never saw you!
OK, I sat on my arse and drank beer in 30c of sunshine! 8)
(http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa439/CKEGG/0f91d3400b892be257502fc7d93174d8.jpg)
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I see Rothesay is having an unseasonably warm spell again.
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;D ;D
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Well the bad news is I am leaving the International Coaching Licence course early. A few days ago I started to feel really down about it, and I did think of asking the course director for a chat, but decided against it in the end.
I'm afraid I've come to the conclusion that it's a dreadful waste of money, a con and a rip off. I've done my final assessments and it went well, but such is my view of certain English-speaking participants on the course that attending the so-called Presentation ceremony and party on Saturday night will be like sticking needles in my eyes. Awful bunch of stuck-up chancers and dicks.
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If you've done your final assessments, then surely you're done anyway? I'm assuming you'll still get whatever the certificate/qualification is that you were going for?
There shouldn't be any obligation to stick around for a bit of feigned mutual admiration with people you don't like. You can use this place for that.
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Malc, there's nothing wrong with not wishing to go to a posh do full of famous people all pointing at you and going "Who the f*ck's that?"
Run away with your head held high! 8)
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There shouldn't be any obligation to stick around for a bit of feigned mutual admiration with people you don't like. You can use this place for that.
Hey!! I love you all. Whoever you are.
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There shouldn't be any obligation to stick around for a bit of feigned mutual admiration with people you don't like. You can use this place for that.
Hey!! I love you all. Whoever you are.
I'm me, and the others on this site are themselves. Does that help?
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I'm usually someone else.
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So who am I again? :-\
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You're the son of the arch enemy of the brother-in-law of the long-lost imaginary friend of one of my multiple personalities.
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Well, that will get me my money's worth at ancestry.co.uk.