Andy Reid

So in terms of individual development plans, athletic development plans, we want to work really closely with the club.

So in terms of, say, loading, if they've had too much game time and we know that we need to back off them a little bit when they come to us, that's fine, no problem.

All our players will have GPS units every single day.

You've seen the equipment that we've got here for the testing.

Wearing the GPS units every single day helps us track the loading, so it helps with injury prevention, but it also helps on how much can we push these players as well, because we want to push them so we know that they're going to the limits.

Yeah, well, look, we've launched this new academy.

It's been something that I've wanted to do for a long time.

Obviously, I'm very passionate about Irish football, as everybody can see, and I believe that I can...

and make an impact and try and help.

So we've launched the Andy Reid Elite Soccer Academy as you can see here and I suppose the first phase of it and the first part of it is the transition year course that we're going to run and it gives the kids an opportunity at 15, 16 years of age to come out of school and to feel what it's going to be like to be a professional footballer for a year.

Now involved in that they get the technical tactical development, they get their individual development

But also a really important part of it as well is that they get the athletic development.

So the athletic development, seeing how the advances are coming in football, how quick, how strong, how powerful players are, we believe that we can make a real impact with that and help them along to be professional footballers.

Alongside that, they get a great educational part of it as well.

So they get qualifications that come from that as well, which is important.

And I think one thing...

that I would like to kind of say is that we want to develop good footballers, but we also want to try and help develop good people as well.

Well, look, I see it.

Working at Nottingham Forest, I see how important these ages are.

Over there, there's programmes run where the kids come out of school and they come in and they spend the day a little bit like what we do, where there's education, there's a lot of gym work, athletic development, and then there's the football stuff.