Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:05 am  

bren2k wrote:

He is lacking the skills that junior players should have mastered by the age of 12 or 13 - but many don't, because of the lack of decent coaching at many amateur clubs; couple that with the ultra-competitive league structure, which encourages the enthusiastic Dads coaching juniors to win every game, and you end up with a team of freakishly big lads banging into each other, with very little skill on display and not much room for the smaller, more athletic lads to get any game time or skills development.

I'd advocate top-slicing some central funding to sort out the grassroots game - get decent coaching and skills development into every amateur club that can achieve certain benchmarks, and revamp the jr league structures to disincentivise the current win at all costs mentality; and compel professional clubs to properly engage with their local amateur clubs, rather than ignoring them until they have a decent crop of U15's.

Couldn't agree more

Not only does the current system not teach youngsters the required skills, it also puts off a huge amount of youngsters from either continuing to play or from joining up in the first place.

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:38 am  

There's nothing better than a comeback story, so I hope he gets over this and kicks on.

There's also nothing worse than scapegoating a single player. I've never seen a one-sided result that was any one player's fault.

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:51 am  

number 6 wrote:

edited

Now, what's that saying I am thinking of ?

Oh yeah,

People in Crack Houses shouldn't throw Rocks.

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:32 am  

Had Ben cockayne played or might have lost 32-0 or something. I'm sorry but dixon is not a good player. One of the quickest players in the league perhaps but that isn't nearly enough. I think Chester took the gamble hoping dixons speed was the only kr player remotely in the same pace league as as the quickest leeds players. That said, Leeds would have beaten any SL Team on Saturday.

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:14 pm  

Diablo1967 wrote:

Dixon does that every single time I've seen him. I think the errors in his game will never be coached out. Like Eden and Caro.

Chesters desperation to have his best player out there showed. Kelly was nowhere near fit or injury-free. Arrogance.

what does that say about the rest of the rovers team then as Kelly was the best rovers player by an absolute mile!

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:30 pm  

Charlie Sheen wrote:

If he could cut out the errors he could be a world class player. He's probably the quickest player over the first 20 metres I've ever seen.

....and if my aunt was my uncle she'd be a man

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:08 pm  

Ste100Centurions wrote:

Now, what's that saying I am thinking of ?

Oh yeah,

People in Crack Houses shouldn't throw Rocks.

Coming from leigh lol

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:46 pm  

His head had completely gone and should have been brought off , Chester is to blame imo . Dixon would have been subbed/replaced on almost every other sport by his coach

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:42 pm  

Legends and Icons wrote:

His head had completely gone and should have been brought off , Chester is to blame imo . Dixon would have been subbed/replaced on almost every other sport by his coach

Yeah we might have only got beat 38-0

Re: Kieran Dixon : Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:06 pm  

Bloody southerner lol.