Prefer to read than take part in the forum, however this comment I partially agree with. You're right no one does know how to coach kids, but it's got sod all to do with beer, diets, grass roots. The problem, as I and many grass root coaches see it, we're trying to coach kids the european way, that does not suit our style of player. I've been coaching kids for over 25 years, we started this euro coaching around 94/95, we should have produced better quality players by now if we are to believe the coaching mantra of those who knew better. Prior to the introduction of this style of coaching the national teams were doing not too badly for qualification of tournaments. So despite what the SFA try to tell us, or the media for that matter, we have been using the euro methods in this country for years, without success, we need to ask why? League reconstruction, sticking plasters . . .none of it works. What does? For the euro methods to be a success they need to be taught from 4/5 years of age secondly, skills/drills need to be done over and over, the very basics pass and control (this is the biggest challenge, kids don't want to put the work in, they just want to be like their hero off the TV) Pro-Youth . . . wastes the kids, a vast majority turn in to billy big baws, I've got 6 year old kids training with a senior team, those kids now do not want to put the effort in, scrap pro-youth (in my opinion) or don't let kids train at senior clubs till 12 years old These are just my observations of a few areas where we have went wrong in the past 20 odd years