The instructors are very engaging and patient. My boy really loves it. Be better if we knew more about the badges. He's going 2 months now and no badges. My daughter went once and got a badge.
Coach Eve in Mount Merrion is a fantastic coach. She has a great way with kids of all personalities. She engages them when they are in good form and has a way of bringing them in if they are not. The badges and Lenny turning up to meet them are a great new addition that weren't there when my older child was in LK.
My son attends the oldest group 6-8 years. He generally enjoys it. However much of the training is not helping them develop their football abilities. There is too much time spent in circles and doing warmup drills without the ball. They should have a ball at their feet for as much of the session as possible. Simple passing drills where players go in pairs pass the ball to each other would be very helpful. Also they need to thought not to all chase the ball when they're playing matches. They should be playing with a size 5 lighter ball per fai directions. I've never one seen a coach show the players how to properly kick the ball with the inside of their foot. This is really important. Most of the kids are toe poking the ball. The fai pathways has good drills for kids of this age.
The coaches are very patient and understanding.
They tailor the classes to the level of the kids.
They seem to get the mix of fun and learning spot on.
Venue is very small.
More opportunities for ‘everyone to do it at once’ independent practice of skills as there can be a lot of waiting for young children.
A bit more training for the coaches- some are excellent and very engaging with the children. Others are struggling with confidence and don’t engage much. Especially when children are struggling to participate/ are intimated- some guidances for the coaches around how to help in these circumstances would be good.
I think the service could also improve if there was some way to pause your subscription.
Just seems to be the same thing over and over again every week, you can see the kids getting kind of bored of it each week. Would love if they actually had a chance to play a bit of football
The coaches are fantastic and have so much time for the kids. My son has come on so much since starting and not just with the football it's following the instructions and listening to the coach. It is definitely a good development class to send children to who are 18 months -2
Coach Jack and Roisin are great with the kids. I do feel the class could have more structure to it as sometimes it can become messy where kids don’t know what they are doing- maybe due to the parents always in the way of the kids listening to the coaches- I think it could be better if the parents stood to the side and if needed to step in to help as that’s what the coaches are there to do, help when needed with kids, especially in the older groups. Other than that we love the classes!!