Scott Lindsey did is A license coaching badge 16 years ago - and football has changed a lot in that time, but how has he changed? Lindsey gives us his thoughts
00:00Yeah, definitely. I'll finish with quite a big question.
00:02Good question, though.
00:03Thank you. You mentioned a couple, you mentioned on Tuesday and you mentioned it just a minute ago about how you did your A licence 15, 16 years ago.
00:11Football's changed quite a lot in that time. How have you changed as a coach, as a manager and even as a person in that time, do you think? Quite a big one for you.
00:19Yeah, it is a big one. As a person, I'm a lot calmer, for sure. I think that players will probably not say that.
00:27I'm a lot calmer than I was. I think that sometimes you have to understand that as much as you want, you can't kick every ball for them out there.
00:42And sometimes football, no matter how well you prepare your team to play against an opposition and you want it to look in a certain way,
00:51sometimes football doesn't allow that, not through anything you've done wrong as a manager or a coach or the players have done wrong,
00:58but it's just the state of the game might be different. It might look different, it might feel different.
01:03The referee might have made a couple of decisions that have swayed the start of a game.
01:07Now we can't get a foothold in it.
01:08I understand that there's so many variables that can happen in a game that change the course of a game and the course of a result.
01:18And what I do on the training pitch is only a real small part of it.
01:22And there's so many things that can happen that can change that.
01:25And I'm not in control, basically, is what I'm trying to say.
01:27So, you know, you can only control the controllables and basically what I suppose what I'm trying to say is make sure that I coach my team as best as I can
01:36to make sure that that bit is ticked off and then it's over to the football gods a little bit, you know.
01:43I think that's probably what I've learned over my experience of doing this job.
01:49What was it?
01:50What was the...
01:51It was just how have you changed as a coach?
01:53Yeah, from a coaching point of view, I think you evolve as you go.
01:57I think I've always wanted to have all the ball all the time.
02:02I think that there's certain things.
02:03Me and my analyst, Connor, was talking today, actually, and he asked me a similar question about how do you evolve your style of play?
02:11I think there's always tweaks all the time.
02:14You know, you look at certain aspects of the game and you think, right, you know, I was convinced that a certain action works every time
02:24and having kind of reviewed it, it doesn't.
02:28So then, therefore, we don't have to do it every time.
02:31We probably have to do something different.
02:33So you're always watching and reflecting on the team.
02:38I think the team more than reflect on myself, obviously, as well.
02:42But the team and looking at, you know, actions that we can look real smooth playing through the pitch.
02:48You're always learning, you know.
02:50You never stop learning in football.
02:53And, yeah, I think that my style of play has never really changed.
02:56But I've kind of evolved it with, yeah, with certain little bits and pieces inside it, if that makes sense.
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