Richard Jones

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💻 Wellbeing & Final Year OT Student | ⚽️ UEFA B | 📚FE PGCE | 🏃‍♂️x5 Half Marathons & 2x Marathons ’20 ‘21 🏅🏅 | 🖥 Founder: @TheS_Resource

[Richard Jones @Richard_Jones62]

Agree? I feel many will disagree? 👇🏻

[The Sporting Resource @TheS_Resource]

As a grassroots coach, is your role to help young players reach an academy?

In a recent discussion featuring Birmingham City FC Academy, one view was put forward clearly:

Success for a grassroots coach should be measured, at least partly, by how many players they help progress into academy football.

The argument was that when your strongest players move on, you start again.

That should not be seen as losing your best team, it could mean you have done your job well. Yet, there is another side, most children will never enter an academy or other may not want that pathway.

A grassroots coach also has a responsibility to:

• Make football enjoyable.
• Develop every player, not only the strongest.
• Build confidence and belonging.
• Protect children from unnecessary pressure.
• Support progress without treating academy selection as the main measure of success.

Helping a player reach an academy can be a significant achievement. It should not become the only definition of good coaching.

Perhaps the real question is not whether grassroots coaches should produce academy players.

It is whether they create an environment where every child can progress, develop and stay within the game long enough to make a difference.

As a grassroots coach, is your role to help young players get to an academy?

Video Credit: Vesey
Link to the video in the first comment

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Last 3 days of my final Occupational Therapy placement next week 🤯

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For those that don't know, let me introduce myself.

I'm Richard Jones, based in North Wales and I've been coaching for over 15 years now, and I developed TSR for coaches at all levels to discover content, explore different ideas, and unlock their own imagination when it comes to coaching.

A bit about my background:

• UEFA B Licence
• PGCE FE
• Sports Coaching Degree
• Counselling Level 3
• Trainee Occupational Therapist
• Started sharing content over 10 years ago

We've grown this with the help, support and commitment of coaches from around the world, and it's worth saying that this is self-taught and self-run, no team, just me trying to balance all the platforms, TikTok, Facebook, X, Instagram and YouTube, alongside some exciting plans for the rest of 2026.

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These were Sebastian Sawe's splits as he ran a 1:59:30 marathon in London 🤯

5km - 14:14
10km - 28:35
15km - 43:10
20km - 57:21
Half - 60:29
25km - 71:41
30km - 1:26:03
35km - 1:39:57
40km - 1:53:39
Finish - 1:59:30

Yomif Kejelcha also ran sub-two, clocking 1:59:41 on his debut marathon ‼️

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National Coaching Conference ✅ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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@AllistairMcCaw Heading to Liverpool on Sunday 👊🏻

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What a week and what a 24hrs 😫

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What happened to the taste of @CadburyUK 😫? 👎🏻

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Off to London on Saturday until Tuesday.
Any recommendations?
Places to visit? Eat? Drink?

Guinness Factory - Booked
West End - Booked

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@RJPcoach

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New car purchased 🚗 🙌🏻
Collection on Friday

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@Coach__Luca @TheS_Resource Fantastic post 🙌🏻

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Solo Trip to Leicester ⚽️
Leicester v Charlton tomorrow
CPD event on Sunday at Leicester City FC
Fully representing @TheS_Resource

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Meet Welsh football coach Richard Jones, founder of @TheS_Resource , who finished university and went straight to the USA to start his coaching career! “I kept asking myself, could I really do this?” Link below 🔗👇

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@SirLeoBDasilva 😂😂

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@rioferdy5 Southgate? Eddie Howe?