I'm the Grassroots Maverick and this is my fourth post of this podcast series for coaches and parents. After a 2 week break, I return to cover how we deal with a loss and use the 5 Cs of resilience to improve our player's reactions. Of course, it is important to address technical gaps in the way that the team played, but firstly we need to win the hearts and minds of the players so I will start there in this podcast.

In this episode, we also cover Play Safe weekend, and your role in it. Talking about everyone having role, it is Black History month in October so I will be sharing that with our team in training tomorrow.

I'm the Grassroots Maverick and this is my third podcast episode about being a grassroots football coach for an U8 team (now U9 this season) in North London. This week, I take a look at a much broader range of topics from handling new trials, goalkeepers, technology and whether or not a priming session will help with match performance. There's also a tip for parents and we feature Team.Mate football which is a new technology in beta for managing your team (with improved visuals compared to Spond!).

Links from today's podcast:

- www.teammate.football/ - Linkedin post here

I'm the Grassroots Maverick and this is my second podcast about being a grassroots football coach for an U8 team (now U9 this season) in North London. This week, I take a look at some of the FA rules that will come in this season and will feature in our training, as well as how we started setting up fixtures and training in Spond. This is the calm before the storm when training starts next week.

Next week, I can give an update on how our first training and team fixture went. No names will be shared!