Explained5 min read
The five pillars, explained for parents
Technical, Athletic, Psychological, Educational, Social. What each one measures, why the last three are not the soft ones, and what they look like on the day.
Notes on assessing young footballers.
What a number can tell you, what it cannot, and what thirty years of writing things down has taught us.
Articles
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Method4 min read
What consistency tells you that a personal best doesn’t
Every parent has watched their child do something brilliant once and spent the rest of the season waiting for it to happen again. There is a measure for that.
Assessment5 min read
Why a single number never describes an athlete
We publish a score out of a hundred because a single readable figure is the only way five separate assessments become a conversation. It is also the most misread thing in the report.
New pieces, occasionally.
We publish when we have something worth saying, which is not often. A name and an email address, nothing else.