Ross Peebles-Brown

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

If you believe that children cannot learn “technical skills” in context (although in fact it is where they learn more profoundly)…

🙏 Please provide the origin of your thinking and any research in the last 75 years that supports your claim.

Let’s look closer, no?

#TOVO

[Jorg van der Breggen @JvanderB78]

We talk about ‘developing players’, as if coaches, clubs or federations produce development. We can’t. Players develop themselves by perceiving, acting, adapting & learning through experience. Our job isn’t to manufacture talent, but create environments where development emerges.

[Mark Donaldson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DonaldsonESPN]

Sebastian Pocognoli as the new Scotland boss? Yes please.

Did a fantastic job for Tony Bloom at USG, preferring a 3-4-1-2 system

“The game I like to play is a dominant one, with and without the ball. High pressing, counter-pressing, but also real mastery in possession.”

[Daily Record Sport @Record_Sport]

BREAKING! Sebastien Pocognoli set for Scotland manager job as former Belgium star scores highly with SFA chiefs

https://t.co/zHaSmqsmJ2

[Jamie Hamilton @stirling_j]

The idea that you need 'elite level', expensive players to play a small-space relational game is strange.
The most prevalent current examples of effective small -space relationism are found *outside* the Top 5 leagues.
If anything, players suited to this style are undervalued.

[Ross Peebles-Brown @RossRpb]

@johnwalker_1986 Should be fined - that would certainly force clubs to play younger Scottish players. Crazy that they need to be forced.

[Ross Peebles-Brown @RossRpb]

@alexwhiteman49 @lewishfc1875 Those fighting for the British are traitors to their country

[reisshaldane @reisshaldane]

Scotland are officially the only European nation to complete matchday 1 at the World Cup with a clean sheet & a victory.

[Pie & Bovril 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @pieandbov]

Magnificent 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[⚽️Pedro Mendonça🧠 @PedMenCoach]

Javier Aguirre y Julián Quiñones

A veces la mejor respuesta táctica no está en mover a un jugador, sino en entender todo lo que aporta donde está.

La respuesta de Aguirre merece ser escuchada.

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

True development happens when training mirrors the chaos of the game: split-second decisions, perceptual cues, spatial awareness under fatigue & pressure.

Players who train with high cognitive fidelity see faster, choose smarter, & execute better.

Train like you play.

#TOVO

[Jed Davies @TPiMBW]

"Guardiola expressed the same idea from a different angle. “There are two kinds of coaches,” he said, paraphrasing Lillo, “those who begin their attack from their own penalty box and those who begin it when their rivals take their goal kick.” The line is often read as an argument for pressing. It is also an argument about the build-up. If you begin your attack from your own penalty box, you must be able to read the opponent’s shape from the first pass and know, before the ball has crossed the halfway line, which route forward the opponent has made available." - Page 50, 'ball (2026) available from https://t.co/vfNWk4vh3T or Amazon

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Hard to accept. (Perhaps the deepest assumption in youth sports to break.)

▪️You do not have to run traditional “skill drills” to develop skills.

Once you realize this, your trainings improve immediately. And your players will have more fun, challenge and growth.

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Do you have a methodology?

A training methodology is the overarching philosophy and system that guides how athletes are developed over time.

✔️ It defines the principles, beliefs, and processes behind training.

A methodology answers questions such as:

▪️What is the purpose of training?
▪️How do athletes learn best?
▪️What behaviors are important?
▪️What style of play is desired?
▪️How should coaches teach, communicate & evaluate?

A methodology is therefore the framework for decision-making. It shapes everything from coaching language and session design to feedback, culture, intensity, and long-term player development.

It is less about individual exercises and more about the logic behind them.

In simple terms:

Methodology = the “why” and “how” behind training.

A methodology creates consistency of thinking.

#TOVO
#intelligentfootball

[Jorg van der Breggen @JvanderB78]

“When a child plays in the street, he learns in a playful environment that favours creativity. Today he plays in an environment that tends to undermine his creativity & the relationships he plays from”- Fernando Diniz

[Manpreet 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ManpreetPTFC_V5]

Documentary daft so we are😅…. Buzzing to see how this comes across, a lot of behind the scenes not only with myself but all around the club from boardroom to pitch side

Some tasty viewing with cameras recording every pre match, half time and full time in the dressing room 👀

[Jamie Hamilton @stirling_j]

In Diniz's Corinthians, players prioritise movement to create connections around the ball, rather than interchanging positions and switching zone occupation.
This difference in organisational logic is fundamental; each has its own version of 'freedom'.

[JOGO FUNCIONAL @JOGOFUNCIONAL1]

I’ve been impressed with the quality of Paul’s writing of late

Here he explores a really fascinating topic- self organizing systems and complexity by Edgar Morin

Football is complex, adaptive and dynamic in nature

Great that @maspositional has helped profile his work!

[Jamie Hamilton @stirling_j]

All I can say is: have we got a 3rd Circle episode for you! coming very soon...
#totality

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Simple but Better

❌ Stop telling players to execute an action under the euphemism of “technical drill.”

✔️ Start asking your players to solve challenges by executing a technical action.

Massive development difference.

#TOVO
#intelligentfootball