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Graham Reid about managing the workload of the players in the current climate to peak for Tokio 2021 and Pro League

Periodisation was planned backwards from the 2020 Olympics and will now be redone for 2021. Every physical session is tracked by GPS and heart rate, giving a target player load per exercise, session and week, which decides whether a week is heavy, light, fitness or speed. Reid calls the Pro League a mixed blessing: ready-made preparation, but against the very teams India will meet in Tokyo. Watch the full masterclass: Field Hockey Tactics, Trust and Team Dynamics: Insights from Indian Men’s Coach Graham Reid.

Shane McLeod about managing the gap between the starting 11 and the bench

If you want your bench to get stronger, roll your bench, McLeod says. He once preset a subbing sheet that gave marquee players productive minutes while timetabling squad players in for growing, guaranteed blocks, so everyone knew their game time and trained accordingly. One second-team player who came through that system now starts for Waterloo Ducks, one of Belgium’s better sides. Watch the full masterclass: AMA with Shane McLeod.

David Passmore on the different roles of a player in a game and its management

Choosing a captain should be collaborative, he argues, and he borrows Sven-Goran Eriksson’s idea of cultural architects: whoever takes the role has to live the team’s agreed behaviours, not just lift people. Let the squad pick who represents them in a leadership group, then decide the captain from there, or rotate it. Rich Halsworth’s leaderful team is the aim, so nothing collapses when one player is missing. Watch the full masterclass: Changing & developing a culture.

David Passmore about managing different groups within a team

Some of his players warmed up throwing a frisbee while others wanted to be pumped up and serious, and the serious group resented it. His answer is acceptance rather than uniformity: let players find the state they perform best in, then anchor everyone to the same goal. He points to Northern and Republic squad members with different anthems and passports, and to Belgium settling on English. Watch the full masterclass: Changing & developing a culture.