Good afternoon and welcome to the latest edition of my
Football Development blog for Giffnock SC- the biggest and best club in
Scotland officially!
WELL, work has begun on our new 3G pitch at St Ninian's High
School in Giffnock. This will be the home of the club from January and we hope
to have as many of our 4s, 7s and younger 11s teams on here playing as much as
possible. This pitch has been funded in part by Giffnock SC, East Renfrewshire
Council and SportsScotland. Alongside our new home will be our changing
facilities and clubhouse, funded in part by grants and assistance from the
Scottish Football Partnership- this facility will be one of, if not , the first
of its kind built in the country for growing clubs like ours. Massive thank you
to all involved in getting these projects off the ground.
SO, with our little ones sorted- what about the big ones?
Our refurbishment of the Norwood Pavilion is well underway with the kitchen and
changing rooms just about complete- we are no able to offer visitors hot and
cold food and drinks. These grass parks will shortly go under renovation work
which will leave us with 3 top of the range grass parks by 2015. Norwood will
then become the home of our older 11s teams, right through to our super Amateur
team who are currently top of the West of Scotland League- well done lads! 
ALSO, I have been working closely with
the Club Committee on putting plans in place about how we better develop all
young players at the club- this involves coaching plans and coach development
nights throughout the year. 14 of our 1996 boys (under19s) recently completed
their Scottish FA Level 1 congratulations boys!
FINALLY, for this update-on top of all this coach recruitment and development I have
been working with Bernie, Brendan and Pauline of the Girls section of the club
about how we grow this area of the game.We are hoping to get involved in local secondary schools to offer FREE girls-only football coaching by myself, a Scottish FA Licence holder, for all S1/2 girls at Mearns Castle, Williamwood, St Ninians and Woodfarm. On top of this I hope to get around primary schools in the Clarkston, Newton Mearns and Giffnock areas, offering the same program. So look out for flyers/newsletters in your daughter's school bag in the next few weeks!
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