Groupies? This thread is Soccer Woes not Soccer Ho's.
....and back to the subject. I'm responsible for an U11 team this year as well as being Director Of Coaching at the club.
The U11s had a promising pre-season but now, owing to injuries, illnesses and absences we are losing games (always by one last second goal).
After our loss today, one father came to remonstrate with me about a number of things, none of which made any sense. I talked it over with my assistant coach later and we agreed that it his kind of grief reaction to the fact that his son had an absolute nightmare of a game, even though he was played in his favourite position and got good game time.
I lost my temper somewhat and went through the guy like a dose of salts (just in case you think I'm a bully -this father is an ex basketball player and is nearly seven feet tall) telling him that if we had won the game, he wouldn't have come to complain and we wouldn't be having a conversation.
So you see that coaching isn't all about drills and skills, it's about dills too