Christopher Rawlinson OLY

Data and trends are telling us there are shifts happening in the way we deliver, engage and experience sport in Australia. The sport we knew, particularly pre-COVID is vastly different to where we are now and where we're going. Getting ahead of the curve is the best way to embrace these changes, Kieren Perkins OAM has articulated this beautifully in the piece below. We need sport. How we connect with sport is up to us, and its time for all sports to get in the boat and row.👏 #australiansport #sportforall #femaleparticipation #futureofsport

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CRICKET COACHES: With season starting soon in Australia be aware of higher injury risk bowling techniques, strength of players, and volume of bowling. Great discussion on this topic in X link below (screenshot in brief) https://lnkd.in/gk633Tup

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How good is this! A modern coaching webinar discussing the 'Principles of Play' Back to the Future! 👍🏼🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ I hour CPD available as well.

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Football Coaches Australia As the trial period is current, it is important to understand and recognise the value of good coaching At NPL we often get lost in the fantasy of ‘club’ but what is ( or should be ) more attractive is understanding their coaching staff, their football philosophy but more importantly what the club believes good coaching looks like. In some clubs the “canteen crew” can win trophies with some teams as coaching actually has little impact on the result - some players and teams are just “better” Parents of aspiring players should look at the evidence of performance not only on the league table but to see what kind of humans are being developed by the coaches therein. Some Clubs will spit you kid out at 18 when the only focus in senior football will be three points on the weekend. Coaches, good coaches have the ability to influence young peoples lives, well away from the pitch - and forever . Teaching football through instruction but mentoring and supporting players when they fail - and they will Sometimes this means hard conversations and actions. Great coaches take a longer view ( I see Ange ripped his best player off last night at 1/2 time against West Ham ) and look at how that action will ultimately assist and progress the player and the individual I am lost at why EVERY coach in Australia is not a member of Football Coaches Australia and why they think their licence course alone is the panacea to developing the very skills that should underpin their work on the pitch It is so much more than session plans guys As football and life are the same game - just played on different pitches Join today - (because you all think you are so busy I have attached the link)

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Salary caps and Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations significantly impact a sporting director's job in several ways: Transfer Market Strategies. Focus on Value: Salary caps and FFP limit spending on players. Sporting directors need to become more creative and identify undervalued talent or players approaching the end of their contracts with high wages at other clubs. Negotiations become even more crucial to secure top talent within the financial constraints. Squad Development: Investing in youth academies and promoting homegrown talent becomes a more attractive option. Sporting directors need to prioritize developing young players who can contribute to the first team while remaining cost-effective. Loan Market: Loan deals with buy options or player swaps become more strategic tools for acquiring talent without significant upfront costs. Sporting directors need to be skilled negotiators to find win-win loan agreements that benefit their team.

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In junior cricket, understanding the difference between a participation competition and a talent pathway competition is crucial for all sport parents. **Participation Competition**: This type of competition is all about getting as many kids involved in cricket as possible. The focus here is on enjoyment, inclusiveness, and learning the basics of the game. It’s designed to encourage every child, regardless of their skill level, to have a go, build confidence, and develop a love for the sport. Winning is secondary to participation. These competitions often have modified rules to make the game more accessible and fun, such as shorter boundaries, smaller teams, or a softer ball. **Talent Pathway Competition**: In contrast, a talent pathway competition is more structured and competitive, designed for those young players who show a higher level of skill and potential. These competitions aim to identify and nurture talent, with a stronger emphasis on performance, strategy, and skill development. The pathway helps talented players progress through higher levels of cricket, potentially leading to professional opportunities. While still enjoyable, the environment here is more competitive, with a focus on helping players reach their full potential. We are making great strides in developing the future talent pool Cricket ACT https://lnkd.in/gSCGT9vK

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ICYMI: Football Queensland aiming for six-figure participants by 2026: Football Queensland (FQ) have remained busy on the tools in building the framework required to materialize their aspirations, all through the implementation of The 2024-2026 Game Development Strategy. Acknowledging the popularity of the world's game within the state, CEO Robert Cavallucci disclosed that the development strategy plan is to make football “the game of choice” amongst Queenslanders. In correlation with the strategic referee plan released earlier in the month, the Development Strategy plan highlights women’s football, 50/50 parity amongst male and female participants FQ wishes to achieve 128,000 registered football club participants. The monumental hype that surrounded Australia’s maiden tenure as World Cup hosts has culminated in football governing bodies looking to transcend the sport within their respective states to unprecedented heights. It is common knowledge that the success and appreciation for the Matilda’s throughout their 2023 Women’s World Cup campaign leaves in its wake a tangible interest within football amongst potential female participants. FQ are also seeking to achieve 200,000 social participants, while vying to achieve further diversity amongst its existing participants. But how are FQ going climb the steep mountain? Pillar One: Recruitment and Opportunity In order to have a significant percentage increase within the number of official and social participants across the board involves a proactive approach. The fundamental aspect of achieving parity between genders is to amplify the dedicated focus upon fostering inclusivity. Through events crafted towards a vast variety of varying demographical and geographical communities, the programs created in order to showcase the sport of football, while attempting to attract new participants. In order to break the barriers FQ will investigate and identify strategic growth areas by conducting a geographical and demographical review. Upon this, the establishment and implementation of a strategy where football within schools becomes more inclusive will be exercised. Pillar Two: Delivery and Experience The pursuit of excellence spearheads the secondary pillar featured within the strategic plan. The experience of every participant is paramount. Underscored by a pledge to deliver 10/10 experiences enabling its participants in the development of existing skills while garnering new ones. In order for participants increase and remain active, FQ has dedicated attention towards a coach’s development through upskilling initiatives and creation of a coach's community. Regular coaching workshops creating opportunities for professional development of community club coaches, a feedback loop for participants, a reward and recognition program and imperative quality assurance are the aspects in which FQ will… #Football #Soccer #FootballNews

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Got a new job leading a sporting organization? Want to make a difference and be successful? Here's five tips: 1. Listen to everyone - respect everyone's views - but in the end, make the decisions you believe are in the best interest of all participants, irrespective of politics and the "that's the way we do it here" people. 2. Build a team around you who are great at their job - then provide them with the support, the environment and the opportunity to do what they do best, i.e. don't hire a gourmet chef then make them wait tables all night. 3. Hire a mix of expertise, i.e. some people who know your sport, some people who know sport but from other sports (ideally from a more advanced sport) - and some with broader skills from outside of #sport. 4. Show me the money! Secure your long term financial viability so you can lock in plans and programs for the forseeable future. 5. Be relentless on building strong, effective relationships across the sport - be the connecting force - the collaborative leader - bring people along with you on the journey. #waynegoldsmith #wgcoaching #coaching #sport #sportsleadership #leadership #sportingorganizations #teambuilding #change.

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FC Bayern München signing Nestory Irankunda has had a successful individual season to farewell Adelaide United Football Club and their fans . We can see his attacking value (1.05) is way above average and more than compensates for his negative defensive value (-0.19). As an attacking midfielder (AM), 0.41 is also on the higher side. Beyond scoring, he has begun to facilitate a lot more. His success rate of finding a killer pass is quite high and if he can increase his volume of playing that final ball it will make him that much more dangerous to defences. At 0.73, his WR or actions per minute is around average just as his successful actions per minute is (SWR). A lot more to come from this young player. He loves the ball at his feet and taking on defenders before rifling in a powerful shot to test the keeper. If he can find more balance between shooting and playing a pass, he will be even more of a handful for defenders. He has played out wide a fair amount even though crossing is at this stage a weakness of his. A more central role or cutting in from out wide will yield more success for him so it’ll be on defenders to keep him wide. He puts in effort on defending and has some success but frustration and over-exuberance can occasionally see him give up fouls and miss tackles. Overall, a very dangerous attacking option

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Hey Friends, Here is a sneak peek of tomorrow's AFL Elite Tips for High Performance Coaches & Footballers podcast episode with Matt Whitaker. A great listen for sports scientists looking to work in elite sport! ▶️ Watch on YouTube:

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Ever wondered how you can engage with you participants more and cater training to what motivates them? Find out more in this new video about the Self-Determination Theory from the Australian Sports Commission.

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"What is it about the experience that we are providing that is pushing children away from wanting to be a part of our (sport) environment?" 🏀⚽️🏑🏉🏈⚾️🎾🏐🏏 Interestingly, when it comes to team sports in Australia, my involvements and observations suggest the scope for higher quality environments includes not only "community sport" as Kieran puts it here, but also school and club programs that aim to support and develop highly aspirational ("talented") youth players. In the spirit of "disruption", here is one alternative model - https://lnkd.in/gJB5renC ...and some complimentary tech to go along with it - https://gamecards.zone #gamehubs #gamecards #communitysport #youthsport #playerdevelopment #talentdevelopment #wickedproblems

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How good was this win! Have a read of my articles below!

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#bitesize - How to develop an AFL body Highlights from the episode: - Key areas to develop on the conditioning side - Benefits of developing an AFL body - Areas to focus on strength and power point of view - Get Better Plan episode on how to safely develop athleticism for junior footballers   Our website link is in the comments below ⬇️

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Here’s a little insight into our Paddle Australia men’s team connection to Men of Business Academy

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🅰 🅲🅰🅻🅻 🅵🅾🆁 🅻🅴🅰🅳🅴🆁🆂🅷🅸🅿 🅸🅽 🆀🆄🅴🅴🅽🆂🅻🅰🅽🅳 🅵🅾🅾🆃🅱🅰🅻🅻 Recent events in Queensland football have sparked intense discussions around governance and leadership following Football Queensland’s decision to enter the NPL QLD competition taking on the responsibilities of privately owned Brisbane Roar FC’s development teams. This league, traditionally the domain of independent clubs, has led to strong responses from Gold Coast Knights Football Club, Wynnum Wolves FC, Peninsula Power Football Club, Rochedale Rovers FC Inc Moreton City Excelsior Brisbane City Football Club and Lions Football Club (representing a majority of the league). These clubs have voiced serious concerns about Football Queensland’s dual role as both competition administrator and competitor, questioning the transparency and integrity of this decision-making process. This situation raises critical issues: 💡 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬? 💡 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭? While governance concerns are front and centre, it’s essential to recognise the broader context of Football Queensland’s efforts to enhance player development pathways. The challenge, and opportunity, lies in finding the right balance between maintaining competition integrity and fostering these pathways for the future of the game. As someone who has worked across several state and national sporting bodies, I’ve seen the importance of leadership that embraces collaboration, fairness, and accountability. This moment requires tough conversations, brave decisions and a commitment by all stakeholders to the long-term future of the sport. *** edited as more NPL clubs confirm their support for a review by Football Australia making it seven total and more than half of the league #SportsGovernance #Leadership #Transparency #FootballQueensland #NPL #FutureOfSport #IntegrityInSport #CollaborativeLeadership

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🌊 Would you be interested in? Event Overview: Guide to Swimming for Lower Class Date and Time: 24th July, 7:00 PM Location: Online Join Here: Microsoft Teams Overview: The "Guide to Swimming for Lower Class" event is designed to provide comprehensive information and support for athletes with disabilities interested in swimming. This event aims to educate participants on various aspects of adaptive swimming, including disability profiles, Paralympic events, training methods, and grassroots pathways. Don't miss this opportunity to dive into the world of adaptive swimming! 🏊‍♂️ #AdaptiveSwimming #Paralympics #InclusiveSports

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Interesting read generally, especially the prevalence of individual activity / sport. Not sure whether individual activity is an activity or a sport as in a degree of completion & group organisation with others. I may need to research further. Personally pleased to see basketball rated highly both overall and in team type sport activities. IMO Team sport teaches cooperation & role playing to achieve a result together. Not to mention the physical benefits.

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