It wouldn't make sense to have a workflow where
we can get to a million conclusions but then we can't actually pass it on to the players
depending on on what we decide we put some content together for the players before the the match so
now 45 before that's when we announce the lineups so we'll have that on my laptop
ready to to put in front of the players then it's a bit of a waiting game until lineups are
announced then it gets a bit frantic with trying to understand what the opposition are doing where
we can start to kind of predict and assess where we're going to get joy where we're
going to get troubles i'll put it on up on the board so the players know i'll give them
a bit of information in between i can just go through uh sometimes good practice is to just
give an example of a clip they've done in training or a clip from an elite player
and then from there go up to the gantry i've got the radius i can just radio down anything
i see the guys can radio up anything that they're particularly interested in i can just clip it
straight away but particularly at half time we bring it down and give them a better clearer
picture of what's going on the ability to look at half time with the with the quality of the camera
that it gives you and the immediate feedback that it gives you i think is really important
because as a coach you have a small window at half time where you can make those changes um and be
proactive and really get messages across when the players are out on the pitch it's so hard to get
quality of message across we have the cameras the wide lens vantage point being able to clip things
by the time i'm in at half time when you have that 15 minutes you've got to use it really well
and i think bpro certainly gives us the feedback to allow us to be more efficient at half time
i try to affect the outcome of a football match i'd probably doubt as much but
to to have that option and to try and to to show that at half time or in game uh but the
other one i think this is the one that really come it's natural to to me and it happens more is um
the the reflection and the review of the game so our post match why have we had success why
were we unsuccessful uh what were the factors how can we get better how can we assure that
we keep at it myself and the staff tend to watch the games back anyway um of course the the next
day but then when we come in on the monday morning joe will have will have clipped it for us and
the more we've worked together the more he knows what sort of things i'd want to look for
and then he will present to to me what he's seen so breakdown of what we do in possession out of
possession any other trends within the game or problems that we might have had and then that
could be 20 minutes half an hour but then we'll we'll clip that down to a more manageable amount
for the players we end up doing this one just what are you talking about body position that i
heard because he's yeah his body shape is just to go look it just needs to be it needs to turn over
not play there come out yeah but then we just do that yeah do you want this yeah i think so because
i know it's on half time but we can control this moment there's still two minutes left of this half
with the training ground footage what we tend to do is after the session we'll just use that as a
another reflection so we'll have the session objectives and we'll have objectives for for all
the drills and we'll just like verify that those behaviors are being
met and if they aren't it's it's easy to just go there and identify why and start to push it out
also i should say we push out a lot when the behaviors are good because we feel that
actually it's worked quite well for us when we see something good we praise it and then it starts to
happen more and more i've always liked to film trainings because i like to watch back what
we're doing because you get so involved with the training i think being able to be more reflective
on your own practice is massive i think it depends on on the training that we do like today when
we've had the bigger area stuff there might be some really good clips of some of the movements
that we've discussed we might just think about one or two players and key roles and after the
training we can just we can just put it on the tv we sit down we flick through the training and if
we see some patterns or movements or things that we thought were a problem in the session we can
clip them either we send them to the players with some notes on them or we maybe we catch
them in the morning sit down for five minutes go back through their training from the day before
too much distance that isn't covered so that means that this part needs to be bigger and as the pass
is bigger it means that it's harder to land on things if we don't occupy the center of the pitch
yeah that's what gaff is saying now there was a moment today that it we've
had our sentiment making a run which means that structurally we're going to create a gap there
so what we need to do is to arrive back into that gap so that we're
more secure beyond the ball so that we can land on second balls and keep going
so that we can take space that's just been vacated and as i saw that with bpro i could literally just
get my phone up see it go five seconds back see the picture confirm it because at pitch level you
can sometimes think you've seen something and you haven't and there's just a little button you press
you click on it and it just goes straight into your library and your platform and then i'm gonna
in a bit i'm gonna push that one out to some players probably the the midfield and attacking
unit that's the thing that was missing in the past and that's the way it's where it's come a
long way is because you'd have to do it visually on the training pitch but then you're losing on on
last concentration to their load to their you stand out on the pitch ages and people switch
off here you can do it within instance clip it all done and i know for someone technical like
the governor that's going to be massive because he needs to get his points across very quickly
you need to to create a culture within the group where the players want to be reflective and
they're not afraid to look at the way in which they play i think that's fundamental to analysis
that the players have to be open and not afraid to critique you know when we come in it's like we
discuss the the game we discuss how we can improve and the players have to be on board with that one
of our centre forwards we've we've basically used our training cameras to to spot something that
would have probably taken us a lot longer to spot if we didn't review our training process which can
only happen with the cameras with the footage um and we've realized that actually there was
a little tweak in his movement inside the box that we thought would bring a lot of benefits to to him
we've then showed him the pictures and it became clear and then we've showed him a couple of elite
examples i want to show you something afterwards i watched the training back yesterday and looked at
a couple of your movements in the box and i think it's something that we're going to work with on
i'm going to do i'm going to clip it today so we can go through it on
friday with some little things that i think will give you an edge inside the box the manager said
to me and we've watched certain clips of certain players one was patrick bamford we watched and
we saw the movement from taking the defender away to then attack the space and it's paid
off for me i probably scored about maybe two or three goals from that or maybe four this season
ultimately they're the people that are going to go on the pitch and and play the game and and
win his football matches and so that they're the important ones so it wouldn't make sense to have
a workflow where we can get to a million conclusions but then we can't actually pass
it on to the players and very important for us that the players can just open their phone and
and just quickly go on the app and they can go to their their groups and open their individual
clips or their unit meeting clips they can throw comments in to ask me or ask the gaffer or ask
whoever it might be zhao sort of got that across when we first started using the be pro app but
as it's gone on everyone's interacted more over it i mean the coaches have got really involved
in it as well which i think is good and i speak to sam slocum the goalkeeper and every morning
we have a conversation about oh did you see that back or did you see this what we could do better
i mean we tend to upload the the games onto the b pro system and then we can clip it down i think
it's been very good for for the set plays where we can have specific set play groups and then
put in some of the opposition set plays into that so that the players can access that through the
week and we tend to have a main full team meeting around opposition analysis but then following that
we can put more specific clips onto the b pro for the so if we have a defending group we can put the
opposition attackers on their common movements and trends so i think it allows us to break break it
down and chunk it to the players and give it to them that way because as it goes out there yeah
stay in your slot it's a right back there's only gonna stand on the ball yeah and pass back inside
old i've got you see the same things but you just want to know that you're seeing the same
things because and that's why analysis is so important because if you come too safe with it
and say oh you think you know there'll be a guy that does something completely out of different
or new or something random that you don't analyze and then you're getting left behind
again or you're having your drop in the team's performance because you haven't looked into it
the more you work together with staff i think not only analysts but physical staff and
medical staff i think everybody starts to understand how you want the training and you start
to connect there so obviously that you become very close close-knit group and understanding
each other each other's roles and certainly how we want the the final picture to look is massive
i agree i think it's such a big operation uh in in running a football club that we need to have this
understanding and connection and and he puts you at ease it gives you the trust to be independent
in what you do we can have good honest discussions i've got the vantage so it's good
that i'm looking for in on a match day for this the stuff that that fits into our game model so
yeah it's definitely again it's definitely really important to to have that connection
you