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Here is how we run the winter indoors.",{"type":140,"content":141},"doc",[142,148,152,159,163,167,171,176,180,184,189,193,221,242,247,251,255,259,264,296,301,305,325,330,334],{"type":143,"content":144},"paragraph",[145],{"text":146,"type":147},"Every December I get the same message at about four o'clock on a Wednesday. The pitch is off. Rock hard, no give in it at all, and the bloke who looks after it is not letting eleven kids near it. I coach Springhead U12 Spartans over in Hessle, and for the first couple of seasons my answer to that message was just to cancel. Then one winter we lost five sessions in a row, and by the middle of January you could see it. Touches were heavy, nobody was sharp, and two lads had drifted off to other things. So now I book a sports hall.","text",{"type":143,"content":149},[150],{"text":151,"type":147},"Indoor training is not a like for like swap for a Wednesday on the grass. It is a different session that happens to have a ball in it. Once I stopped trying to run my normal plan in a hall, the winter block got useful.",{"type":153,"attrs":154,"content":156},"heading",{"level":155},2,[157],{"text":158,"type":147},"Book the hall in September, not December",{"type":143,"content":160},[161],{"text":162,"type":147},"This is the part nobody tells you and it is the part that actually matters. By the first week of December, every decent hall within twenty minutes of us is gone. Schools, leisure centres, church halls, the community centre with the sticky floor. Adult five a side leagues block book them in early autumn and junior teams turn up in the frost assuming there will be something free. There will not be.",{"type":143,"content":164},[165],{"text":166,"type":147},"I book a slot from the start of November through to the end of February, one hour a week, and I do it in September while the caretaker still has gaps in the diary. Most places round here let you cancel a week ahead at no cost, so on the weeks the pitch is fine I just drop it. The ones around us tend to sit somewhere between twenty five and fifty quid an hour, which is worth checking locally rather than taking my word for it. If you have never booked a facility before, ask about the cancellation notice, when you can get in to set up, and whether they want to see your club insurance.",{"type":143,"content":168},[169],{"text":170,"type":147},"Two things to nail down when you book. Are you getting the full hall or a third of it behind a curtain, because a third is a warm up, not a session. And what is the footwear rule, because a lot of halls will not let studs near the floor.",{"type":153,"attrs":172,"content":173},{"level":155},[174],{"text":175,"type":147},"Indoors is a different game, so stop pretending it is not",{"type":143,"content":177},[178],{"text":179,"type":147},"The floor is quick. A ball that would sit up nicely on a wet December pitch skids away from a ten year old before they have set their feet. There is no wind, so passes go where they are hit, which is flattering. The walls are close, so play never really stops. And it is loud, in a way that means your coaching voice does not carry and your whistle does.",{"type":143,"content":181},[182],{"text":183,"type":147},"All of that pushes the session one way: tighter, faster, more touches, less running into space. Which is fine, because that is what most grassroots teams are short of anyway. What it is not good for is anything needing distance, so shape work and long passing can wait for spring.",{"type":153,"attrs":185,"content":186},{"level":155},[187],{"text":188,"type":147},"A shape that works in an hour",{"type":143,"content":190},[191],{"text":192,"type":147},"I keep the structure the same every indoor week so the players know it and I am not explaining organisation for ten minutes while they get cold. 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If you want the longer version of how I build a plan, it is in ",{"text":226,"type":147,"marks":227},"how to plan a grassroots football training session",[228],{"type":229,"attrs":230},"link",{"href":231},"/how-to-plan-a-grassroots-football-training-session",{"text":233,"type":147},", and most of what is in ",{"text":235,"type":147,"marks":236},"small sided games",[237],{"type":229,"attrs":238},{"href":239},"/grassroots-football-small-sided-games",{"text":241,"type":147}," transfers indoors with a smaller pitch.",{"type":153,"attrs":243,"content":244},{"level":155},[245],{"text":246,"type":147},"Games that suit four walls",{"type":143,"content":248},[249],{"text":250,"type":147},"If the hall lets you play the ball off the walls, use it. Rebound play forces players to look up early and it keeps the game running instead of stopping every eight seconds for a throw in. If the walls are out of bounds, mark a proper line and accept you will be resetting more often.",{"type":143,"content":252},[253],{"text":254,"type":147},"Two touch is the single best rule I have found for a hall. It stops the quickest player dribbling round everyone for an hour and it makes the slower thinkers scan before the ball arrives. I also like a game where a goal only counts after every player on the team has touched the ball, which sounds gimmicky and quietly does more for the quiet kids than any amount of talking.",{"type":143,"content":256},[257],{"text":258,"type":147},"Use a futsal ball or drop a size if you can. A normal ball on a sprung floor bounces like it is on a trampoline and the session turns into head tennis.",{"type":153,"attrs":260,"content":261},{"level":155},[262],{"text":263,"type":147},"The stuff that catches people out",{"type":194,"content":265},[266,272,278,284,290],{"type":197,"content":267},[268],{"type":143,"content":269},[270],{"text":271,"type":147},"Footwear. Say it three times before the first session and once more on the day. Astro boots are usually fine, moulded studs usually are not, and somebody will still turn up in the wrong thing.",{"type":197,"content":273},[274],{"type":143,"content":275},[276],{"text":277,"type":147},"Your voice. Get them in tight to talk rather than shouting across a hall. You will lose your voice by January otherwise.",{"type":197,"content":279},[280],{"type":143,"content":281},[282],{"text":283,"type":147},"Time. Indoor bookings are strict. If your hour ends at eight, the caretaker wants the lights off at eight, not the balls being collected at ten past.",{"type":197,"content":285},[286],{"type":143,"content":287},[288],{"text":289,"type":147},"Parents. There is often nowhere for them to stand, so they end up sat along the wall watching every touch. That changes the atmosphere. Worth a word about it beforehand.",{"type":197,"content":291},[292],{"type":143,"content":293},[294],{"text":295,"type":147},"Water. It is warmer in there than anyone expects and kids do not think to bring a bottle in December.",{"type":153,"attrs":297,"content":298},{"level":155},[299],{"text":300,"type":147},"When it is not worth it",{"type":143,"content":302},[303],{"text":304,"type":147},"I am not going to pretend a hall is always the answer. If the only slot going is a twenty minute drive on a school night, half your squad will not make it and you are paying for a session with six players in it. Better to cancel and give everyone their evening back.",{"type":143,"content":306},[307,309,315,317,323],{"text":308,"type":147},"Cancelling is a real option and it is not a failure. There is a bit more on making that call in ",{"text":310,"type":147,"marks":311},"what to do when a grassroots match is called off",[312],{"type":229,"attrs":313},{"href":314},"/what-to-do-when-a-grassroots-match-is-called-off",{"text":316,"type":147},". What I would say is track who is actually turning up through the winter, because attendance in December tells you a lot about who is drifting. I keep a note of it, and ",{"text":318,"type":147,"marks":319},"attendance tracking",[320],{"type":229,"attrs":321},{"href":322},"/grassroots-football-attendance-tracking",{"text":324,"type":147}," covers why that is worth the two minutes.",{"type":153,"attrs":326,"content":327},{"level":155},[328],{"text":329,"type":147},"What we actually get out of it",{"type":143,"content":331},[332],{"text":333,"type":147},"Better touch, mostly. A winter of two touch football in a fast, tight space does more for a player's first touch than the same hours on a heavy pitch. But the bigger thing is that they keep seeing each other. Winter is when players quietly stop coming, and a group that has trained together every week through January arrives in February still feeling like a team.",{"type":143,"content":335},[336,338,344],{"text":337,"type":147},"The outdoor half of the dark months is in ",{"text":339,"type":147,"marks":340},"winter training on a shared pitch",[341],{"type":229,"attrs":342},{"href":343},"https://tracbac.club/playbook/how-to-plan-a-grassroots-football-training-session",{"text":345,"type":147},". Between the two you can get through December and January without losing a month. Book the hall now though. Honestly, book it now.","tiptap","","2026-10-28T09:00:00+00:00","Grassroots Football Indoor Training Sessions","How to run grassroots football training in a sports hall: booking early, what changes indoors, a session shape that works, and when to just cancel.",{"tags":352},[353,354,355],"training","winter","club-admin",1793178049151]