Hullbridge.....

[coach et 64]

Following Steve Davidson decision to take a break from first team affairs

due to his new business committments,Hullbridge board has appointed as

first team coach Jack Pridmore.Jack is a level 2 football coach,looking to

take his level 3/uefa b at ajax football club in 2008.He is the managing

director of the Football Coaching Academy,based in Great Baddow and he is

at the age of 16 years and 9 months,one of the youngest and brightest

coaches in the country.After working at the Leyton orient community sports

programme(locsp)and the Tottenham hotspur development centre,Jack has had

first team managerial experiences at Clacton town(ridgeons premier)and

recently reformed Woodford Town.We wish Jack all the best in his new role.

[Hookey]

16 Coach? Are you sure. FA website says minimum age for a Level 2 is 17. Seems to have done a lot for a 16 year old!!!!!!

 

 

[coach et 64]

They let you take it at 16 hookey.

[JP21]

Thanks Coachie.

 

Im certainly looking forward to really getting into things at Hullbridge. The club is run by some excellent people who seem to be putting hours and hours of work in to make the club a success and hopefully I can contribute to that on the field too. (as long as they don't ask me to put my boots on!)

 

Im also looking forward to becoming ridiculously addicted to this forum and losing any social life I currently have!

 

Hookey - that is a guideline, as you say, I have done alot for my age and as long as the course organisers agree you can cope on the course you are allowed on (as long as your 16+)

 

AND, they are both me. Im an Orient fan too, and I was the website assistant at LOASS.

[Hookey]

Then all I can say Jack is well done and the best of luck. I thought my boy Joe was young for a Level 2 (was 18 when he took it last May). Now considering taking his UEFA 'B' at Keele University at the end of June (Residential Course).

 

Good luck to you and Rico for the remainder of the season!

[JP21]

Thanks Hookey. He IS young for taking the Level 2, oddly on mine I had another 16 year old and another lad who claimed to be 15!

I have a course reccomendation to him (one at Ajax FC) for UEFA "B", I've seen it in person - top setup)

[Hookey]

Cheers JP, please PM me the info re the course. The reason he is considering a res course is because he plays at the weekends.

 

He is currently working/Coaching at West Ham Utd's Football in the Community. He is the only one of his peers I know that is doing for a living what he actually studied to do. i.e. 2 years at Thurrock & Basildon College on the football academy course under the tutelage of Colin Reid and Stuart Inwood.. In addition to his Level 2, he also got a BTEC in Sport (Excellence & Performance). He has also passed his YMCA Level 2 Gym Instructors exam at Club Kingswood.

[JP21]

PM sent in about 2 minutes mate.

 

Yeah, the courses are tough for players/coaches/managers so you have to really be careful with your time. Well done on him for going full time, thats not common in coaching at our ages, wish him all the best. (Maybe see him next summer!)

 

It's tough to coach and be accepted when your young so you have to work extra hard at it, so I can empthasise with him that way. With me I've always had people not believeing I can do it/have done it, because of my age but it's just down to us to try and show them we can. Needless to say there are forward thinking clubs like Hullbridge that give players/coaches that are young a chance - and if it weren't for them I feel the coaches in the country would forever be at standstill.

[Hookey]

I hear that. The problem is credibilty, players like to know/think that you have been there and done it in order to empathise with them.

 

Perserverance and self belief is the key!!!

[smallsy]

fck it just get w@nkered for banter and that will take you far in my book

[Hookey]

Spot on Bowers No.1. Being able to hack it on the banter front, especially in the dressing room, is absolutely key!!!!

[Wickfordnj]

Well done Jack, all the best at Hullbridge.

 

A.k.a Barking Crazy on another forum.

[Kaiser Jnr]

Level 2 @ 16 years old... Great work indeed!

 

All the breast youngster

[cider]

Originally Posted By: coach et 64

Following Steve Davidson decision to take a break from first team affairs
due to his new business committments,Hullbridge board has appointed as
first team coach Jack Pridmore.Jack is a level 2 football coach,looking to
take his level 3/uefa b at ajax football club in 2008.He is the managing
director of the Football Coaching Academy,based in Great Baddow and he is
at the age of 16 years and 9 months,one of the youngest and brightest
coaches in the country.After working at the Leyton orient community sports
programme(locsp)and the Tottenham hotspur development centre,Jack has had
first team managerial experiences at Clacton town(ridgeons premier)and
recently reformed Woodford Town.We wish Jack all the best in his new role.

So thats how you got the interview.

[coach et 64]

sorry to disappoint you but till last week i didn't even know Jack.

[Jenko]

Originally Posted By: coach et 64

sorry to disappoint you but till last week i didn't even know Jack.

You mean you didn't know jack s**t!

[coach et 64]

[TheGoat]

just like to say a few words about steve stepping down.

 

steve is a top bloke and like to thank him for my time at hullbridge. since day one made me feel welcome at the club and gave me the confidence to go on and score lots of sublime goals.

 

cheers 4 the time and effort put in and hope to see you back in management soon, are hullbridge mad leaving enrico in sole charge

 

the club is doomed hi enrico

[coach et 64]

the only thing that is doomed is your return to lower road on the verge of signing the new whizkid of the Esl.He will take this league by storm! hi jaimie

[TheGoat]

luke wilson isnt a whizkid