Women and coaching

An anonymous guest post on my blog by a female coach about women and coaching in NZ. Well worth reading and discussing?

http://in-the-back-of-the.net/2014/08/15/guest-post-the-secret-football-coach/

who was it?

I could tell you but then I'd have to make you do a beep test.

what if I said I am a woman

Tits oot for th' lads!

You'll have to wait for Nicky Hager's next book.

I think any generalisations of coaches skills based on whether they are male or female are pretty useless.  Generalising that male coaches do this, or female coaches are better at this is completely pointless.

Weird obsession in some quarters with getting men to be coached by women.  I don't understand it really, there's no great groundswell for men to get involved with coaching netball, it would be quite odd if there was.

she seems to know Pep - so that should narrow it down

My first tennis coach (male) recently changed gender and now my best pal now refuses to play him/her after years of regular matches.

Not if you saw him/her it isn't. Age sixty plus, hot pants, red wig, panda eyes... you might see him around the capital if you're unlucky.

no balls?

Got the new rack, still got the old balls. But it's only a matter of time before he loses them ( he said gleefully).

'St Cuthbert's Fires Coach Over Street Strip'

"The male coach who oversaw a female student strip on the streets of Rotorua has been sacked by the elite Auckland school that employed him. The First X1 football coach was fired by St Cuthberts' College, a $20,000--year private girls' school, after the incident. Ir was revealed on Thursday, a girl, believed to be 14 or 15, was down to her underwear and fishnet stockings, having shed items of clothing while holding a sign saying 'Toot for a Strip' on the side of the road.... etc etc.

- see Today's NZ Herald.

Players admit- he was in a shop and had no idea what was happening in the street. 

ERA or should he have had all the young ladies in his sight at all times.