Capital Football High Performence Review Report by Ron Smith Is Available

The Capital Football Review of the High Performance Program  Report undertaken by Ron Smith is available on the Capital Football website.
You will find it in the Library section of the Website. So go to the homepage, then to "About Us", then to "Library" and finally to the High performance section and it should be the document listed on the top of this sub section.

The direct link is below.

http://www.capitalfootball.com.au/userfiles/CF%20Review%20Report.pdf

Ron Smiths Talks About the Capital Football High Performance Program Review - Part 3

In this interview, Part 3 of a three part series, Ron Smith talks about the key areas of his review into the Capital Football High Performance Program. They are very intersting and informative interviews - it's always that way with Ron Smith.

Our best performed ACT Rep team in 2010 - the Under 13 Girls. And they were very good! Some of these young players have already moved forward to the Womens' ACTAS program. Others will follow for sure.

Out of this team - our first Australian Under 13 Girls representative - Siena Senatore.  And if memory serves correctly, that's a top flight young NSW player (also an Australian U13 rep) she has to deal with and did so. It can be done! In the case of Ms Senatore, it was the product of years of work in Football, summer and winter, CF HPP, Coerver Academy (several years of it) for the high quality technical development that is second to none in the ACT region, and various other football activities that her parents got her too over the years, too numerous to list and of course, Futsal. Ron Smith's word "repetition" comes to mind. There are no shortcuts. In the end though, its the player that does the work and the harder you work if you have some ability, the more likely you are to succeed. And so it was for this young player. I can only imagine how proud her parents and brother must have been when her selection was announced. It can be done!

 Here we have the 2006 Socceross, a remarkable group of players, with a first rate coach and top class support staff - among which Ron Smith was a key person - the football analyst. One picture that defeinately belongs in the "pool room"! This is where all that "development" , all that "repetition" and an uncompromising ambition / committment to succeed, may take a talented young player. Without all this and before any other factor imposes itself, nothing is possible. It all starts in our backyard - our Clubs and ourCapital Football player development regime. That's why this review of our HPP is so important.

As I have mentioned previously, we do not attempt to tick off every paragraph of the report or recommendations. You do the reading for yourself when the report is released on the CF website.

Instead, we have a long fireside chat with Ron around the major themes or key points in his report and recommendations. The report stands as it is and how it willbe dealt with is for others. At this point, I think its far more important to listen to the author’s thoughts, underpinning philosophy and views on these matters, as it will assist us in understanding what he has recommended and why.

There are no hidden corners, what you hear is how it is. Ron’s research is thorough and he has a depth of football experience at the highest levels of the game, which enables him to bring a certainty of observation not available to most of the rest of us.

I must also again remind the NPL listener, that Ron’s not responsible for implementation of the recommendations. He has tabled his report and now its for others to decide what to do with it. In this case, it is for the CF Board to decide and the new Technical Director to undertake over the next couple of years.

As ever, now the report is done, the devil is in the detailed implementation.

So sit back, cup of tea to hand, close the door, hang the "do not disturb" sign on the door knob, put on the headphones, listen and think.

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Ron Smiths Talks About the Capital Football High Performance Program Review - Part 2

In this interview, Part 2 of a three part series, Ron Smith talks about the key areas of his review into the Capital Football High Performance Program. They are very intersting and informative interviews - it's always that way with Ron Smith.

As I have mentioned previously, we do not attempt to tick off every paragraph of the report or recommendations. You do the reading for yourself when the report is released on the CF website.

Instead, we have a long fireside chat with Ron around the major themes or key points in his report and recommendations. The report stands as it is and how it willbe dealt with is for others. At this point, I think its far more important to listen to the author’s thoughts, underpinning philosophy and views on these matters, as it will assist us in understanding what he has recommended and why.

There are no hidden corners, what you hear is how it is. Ron’s research is thorough and he has a depth of football experience at the highest levels of the game, which enables him to bring a certainty of observation not available to most of the rest of us.

I must also again remind the NPL listener, that Ron’s not responsible for implementation of the recommendations. He has tabled his report and now its for others to decide what to do with it. In this case, it is for the CF Board to decide and the new Technical Director to undertake over the next couple of years.

As ever, now the report is done, the devil is in the detailed implementation.

So sit back, cup of tea to hand, close the door, hang the "do not disturb" sign on the door knob, put on the headphones, listen and think.

Download the Podcast here:

Ron Smiths Talks About the Capital Football High Performance Program Review - Part 1

This program is broadcast on 2xxfm (98.3mhz) across the Australian Community Radio Network on Tuesday 28 December 2010 at 7:00PM.

In this interview, Part 1 of a three part series, Ron Smith talks about the key areas of his review into the Capital Football High Performance Program. They are very intersting and informative interviews - it's always that way with Ron Smith.

As I have mentioned previously, we do not attempt to tick off every paragraph of the report or recommendations. You do the reading for yourself when the report is released on the CF website.

Instead, we have a long fireside chat with Ron around the major themes or key points in his report and recommendations. The report stands as it is and how it willbe dealt with is for others. At this point, I think its far more important to listen to the author’s thoughts, underpinning philosophy and views on these matters, as it will assist us in understanding what he has recommended and why.

There are no hidden corners, what you hear is how it is. Ron’s research is thorough and he has a depth of football experience at the highest levels of the game, which enables him to bring a certainty of observation not available to most of the rest of us.

I must also again remind the NPL listener, that Ron’s not responsible for implementation of the recommendations. He has tabled his report and now its for others to decide what to do with it. In this case, it is for the CF Board to decide and the new Technical Director to undertake over the next couple of years.

As ever, now the report is done, the devil is in the detailed implementation.

So sit back, cup of tea to hand, close the door, hang the "do not disturb" sign on the door knob, put on the headphones, listen and think.

Download Podcast here:

Ron Smith Talks About His Review of the Capital Football High Performance Program

As you are aware, the Capital Football Board commissioned Ron Smith to undertake a review of our current High Performance Program.

The NPL has interviewed Ron in recent times about the development of talented players and related football matters. Ron is a fascinating subject to interview, so much knowledge to impart on Football and so willing to do it. A national football treasure!

Well, Ron has completed his report and presented it to the Capital Football Board, who are presently considering it's content and recomendations. We are at an important cross roads with the development of our young talented players, and the decisions made following the "Smith Report", are likely ot have far reaching effects in our region.

The President of the Capital Football Board and CEO, with Ron SMith's agreement, kindly allowed the Nearpost Local to interview Ron about his report. The interview is broken into three Parts, the first of which will be broadcast on 2xxfm (98.3mhz) on Tuesday, 28 December 2010.

Let me say right from the off – The introduction of the new HPP arrangements was not an easy process and that did not help anyone in football. Here at the NPL we lent our support to the FFA intentions and CF’s efforts to put them into effect. The new arrangements for the HPP involved some change and some experimentation, and some disagreement across the football community. What some critics fail to appreciate is that the implementation of the National curriculum and development was not negotiable with the FFA. This put a lot of pressure on CF staff and those they rely upon to staff the programs (coaches). CF simply had to get on with it.

As a consequence, some parts of the HPP solution worked well, other parts remain as under-resourced as they ever were, some did not get off the ground, some could not accept the necessity for change, new problems arose, mistakes were made and some good decisions will survive into the future, which is probably about what you would expect. But it can't stay like this and in all fairness, clearly the Capital Football Board, by way of Ron Smith's report on the HPP, seeks to do better. We should support that intention.

Curiously, a few I have listened to declare, in my view quite foolishly, that we should not look back. These people usually never learn from their mistakes and are most likely to repeat them. They are best avoided at all costs.
A healthy Football organisation looks back, looks at others doing the same work and looks carefully at its specific environment before making decisions, gets the resources together to ensure it works, then changes step in an orderly way if new and unforeseen problems arise – but importantly, you keep looking and improving, the focus always on what is best for our young players – all of them. We are being outpaced by some of the other State Federations in the HPP sphere and that gap must be closed in order to give our young players the best opportunities to develop and achieve to the higher levels of the game, if that is their wish. Importantly, we must ensure all our young players are developed, for both their enjoyment of the game and the standard of Football in the ACT region. Why would we do otherwise?

To be frank, the one thing that every person I have spoken to on the subject agrees with is that we should do all that is reasonable and possible to develop of our young players. The difference is the crucial "What" and "How" of it all. And doesn't that generate some heat!

In these interviews with Ron Smith, we do not attempt to tick off every paragraph of the report or recommendations. You do the reading for yourself when the report is released on the CF website.

Instead, we have a long fireside chat with Ron around the major themes or key points in his report and recommendations. Far more important to listen to the author’s thoughts, underpinning philosophy and views on these matters, as it will assist in understanding what he has recommended. There are no hidden corners, what you hear is how it is. Ron’s research is thorough and he has a depth of football experience at the highest levels of the game, which enables him to bring a certainty of observation not available to most of the rest of us.
I must remind the NPL listener, that Ron’s not responsible for implementation of the recommendations. He has tabled his report and now its for others to decide what to do with it. In this case, it is for the CF Board to decide and the new Technical Director to undertake over the next couple of years. As ever, now the report is done, the devil is in the detailed implementation.

And as ever, we at the NPL will keep a weather eye on the "development program" and report it as we see it. Can't say fairer than that!

Don't miss this series of interviews. Hope you enjoy it.

The Ron Smith Interviews - Part 3

This program was broadcast on Tuesday 31 August 2010, on 2xxfm (98.3mhz) across the Australian Community Radio Network.

Tonight's program is the third of our interview series with Football Analyst, Elite Coach, former Head of the AIS Football program (10 years), mentor to many of our finest players, specialist technical / analytical advisor to the Socceroos and football national treasure, Ron Smith.

Ron has been engaged to review the Capital Football High Performance Program.

In this fascinating interview, the third in this series, Ron speaks to some subjects that are sure to arouse your interest and are all connected to the notion of a high performance program - age relative effect, does Futsal have a place in football development, what do you do in Summer with the HPP (run competitions or a high performance program to develop players) and Coach education (something important to Ron). Ron speaks of the need to "create the learning environment" and when coaching, asks himself this question " Is the player seeing what I am seeing?" and how to ensure you get the learning across to the player.

As ever, you could just keep listening to Ron talk on Football! A remarkable fellow!

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The Ron Smith Interviews - Part 2

This program is broadcast on 2xxfm (98.3mhz), Tuesday 24 August 2010, at 7:00PM across the Australian Community Radio Network.

In tonight's program we have the second part of our interview with Ron Smith, football analyst extraordinaire, Elite level Coach and football national treasure. Ron has been commissioned to review the Capital Football High Performance Program. In this part Ron talks of many things but all central to the development of a talented player and in the context of a high performance program.

You always get the feeling the there is one more damn good story just around the corner when talking with or listening to Ron - and there usually is!

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Interview With Ron Smith - Part 1

This program is broadcast on 2xxfm (98.3), Tuesday 17 August 2010 across the Australian Community Radio Network.

Tonight’s program is the first in a four part series of interviews with Australian Football Sage and national treasure, Ron Smith. Ron has done the lot in football and on a world stage – player, elite level coach and football analyst of world class. Some call him the “brain’s trust” – not a bad title for this bloke.


Ron has been engaged by Capital Football to review our HPP. It couldn’t be in better hands.

When Ron comes calling to speak on the HPP or you reckon you have something that needs saying, do it. You’ll have a made a contribution to our young players, present and future.

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Interview With Ron Smith - Football Coach, Analyst, Socceroos Technical Advisor and the Person to Conduct the Review of the Capital Football HPP

Listen in next Tuesday at 7:00PM to 2xxfm, or go to this Blogspot and download the podcast or listen from your PC, to Part 1 of an absolutely fascinating and candid interview with eminent Australian Football Coach and football analyst, Ron Smith.

Ron Smith has been appointed to conduct the review of the Capital Football High Performance Program.

As they say "he's been everywhere man"! An absolute treasure chest of football knowledge and experience. He was on staff at the AIS the day they opened for business in the football program. And that's just the start!
The best part is that Ron just tells it the way he sees it. He doesn't blow his trumpet - but if you ask him a question, you get an answer. This is a person really worth listening to.

I reckon they should lock this bloke away in the national archives, set up a recording facility and just let him talk, it would take a while because he knows so damn much, been right in the thick of it - what a terrific history of Australian football would unfold and so much wisdom to reflect on in future years. One of our own! I'm thinking to myself - Ron Smith "National Football Treasure"!

We sat down in the 2xxfm studio this week and the intention was to talk about the task ahead - review of the HPP. Its been a pretty mixed bag the CFAcademy then the CF HPP in recent times in the ACT. Two hours later we stopped talking, we had covered the subject, not in the predictable, boring way of things, but in a fashion that seemed to me at every turn to illustrate the breadth and width of Ron Smith's football knowledge and experience. We flagged several topics that we will speak about at a future time. My head was spinning at times - so many questions to ask of Ron.

Ron Smith understands the complexities around Football and talented players better than anyone I have met in football before and make no mistake - he wants the best we can get for young Australians and are young talent in the ACT region. The review is in good hands.

Don't miss the "Ron Smith" series on the Nearpost Local.