Andy Reid

Now for me that's very, very important.

I believe that there's some excellent coaches in Ireland and I think there's some really good clubs developing good players in a good way.

I don't want to work separately from them, I really want to work together.

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

So in terms of 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, there is.

We've got girls here today with us in this group coming up.

It's something that I'm actually really passionate about and it's something that with this academy that we want to grow over the coming years.

We know that women's football is expanding, it's getting better and we want to support that and we want to help that as much as we can.

I work really closely with the women's side at Nottingham Forest as well and you know I'm always there to kind of you know to be there for support or advice or to help and I've got great relationships with them I want to make sure that that continues whether that's this year or whether that's moving forward I want that women's side of it to grow as we move and I think probably important to say that this is not something that we just want to do for one year for two years this is something

A couple of presentations and a couple of conversations that I've had with them have been really important for me because I can't stress enough that if they're working on a certain part of individual development at their club and we've got that relationship, we can enhance that.

If we know that somebody needs to get stronger in the lower part of their body, we can help with that.

So this course only benefits the clubs as well.

So, you know, we want to work with them, but it's definitely within their interest to work with us.

So, you know, having that kind of joint approach to it is only going to benefit the player.

And that's what I want to do.

I just want to make sure that we can maximise the potential of these players' journeys.