Elliot Foweraker

🏠🐾🏑☕️ FIH Level 5 | Coach Educator | Director of Hockey @ Malvern College | Head Coach @ Stourport HC | @y1hockey

[The Hockey Paper @TheHockeyPaper]

The FIH called it an 'outstanding outcome' for the development of Hockey5s. https://t.co/hK1XgjDbI9

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

"It could be the goal that rubberstamps Charlton's survival!" 🚀

What a time for Charlie Kelman to produce this goal of the season contender 🤯

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@MRHARESULTS Still a negative structure for hockey. More playoffs & promotion spots needed.

Currently 2–3 teams compete for one place up, 4–5 fight relegation, and a large middle group has little to play for.

More meaningful games = more excitement and better for growing the game.

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@sportisthething Possibly not a dramatic shift day-to-day, but culturally it feels significant.

How adaptable our competition models are probably matters more long term, UK has tight playing windows inevitably limit flexibility and growth.

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

Forward thinking! Open to changes that make the sport better 👍

[World Hockey News @WorldHockeyNews]

#THP Dutch hockey faces structural shift: Saturday no longer default match day
The traditional Saturday scheduled match is no longer assumed to be the default for Duch hockey as the sport adapts to changing participant behaviour across the country, seni… https://t.co/29143DBH1u

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

Having heard good things from friends at the club, it was my first visit to @OxfordHawks today. Bar the result for our ladies 1s... what a brilliant club and or set up. Genuinely thought it was brilliant 👏

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

❓What actually improves collective decision-making in your environment ?

Repetition, clarity of intention, or something else?

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@MarriottCoach Agree there are fundamental concepts (some sport-specific) across invasion games.

I’m seeing principles as interdependent behaviours, guiding how players respond to recurring opportunities on and off the ball, with collective intention emerging through those interactions.

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

Coaching thought:

Structure does not restrict players.

Structure liberates decision-making by aligning intention.

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@MarriottCoach Agreed.

For me, structure isn’t rigid patterns, it’s shared intention and clarity.

Exposure to chaos matters. The challenge is designing constraints that help players make sense of it rather than scripting it.

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@russellearnshaw @MentorSixP @SBarnesRugby Video and data can highlight problems or opportunities.

But players still need the right environments to recognise and solve them in real time.

[Jorg van der Breggen @JvanderB78]

This….. 👇🏼

[Midlands Hockey @midlands_hockey]

We need your feedback...

Midlands Hockey are trying to understand more about what we can do to support state school hockey across the area.

To help please answer the short survey below by 1st January.

https://t.co/xk0Zd9GOzP

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@RussellLuke24

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

JWC:

US Colleges 2 Loughborough & UoN/UoB 1

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@RussellLuke24 Well no, it’s not good, also shows with 4 x uni teams in the women’s prem v none in men’s side, odd there’s no representation from Durham who are above the other 3 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@RussellLuke24 Certainly interesting that all the U21 women are playing prem, yet our boys on the whole are not!

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@RussellLuke24 No, I agree, I think 🇺🇸 do a good job with fitness, however I thought that given the 3 x unis we’ve sent out there & their nearly full time nature & 🇬🇧/ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 support, that fitness wouldn’t be a factor, but it seems to have been noticeable vs a few nations.

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

@RussellLuke24 They looked fitter… which is interesting.

[Elliot Foweraker @FowerakerE]

National league 2025 underway with @stourporthockey ✅ Two close games at home for the men & women, nice to finally get going 👊