Simon
Here are my thoughts on Simon and the trainer change.
First of all, I was fairly surprised when I was told about what had happened. I don’t think I have ever experienced something like it in all the years I have played volleyball. I’ve got a lot of conflicting emotions on the subject, as has been said, undefeated coaches don’t get replaced very often. However, I do feel that there were some problems that could easily have become major problems by the end of the year. Generally, I just think that we weren’t on the same page as Simon as a team and it led to too many conflicts.
Development has been a key word in Marienlyst for several years. There is a main goal that the club is working towards and nothing should come in the way of that. In many ways I think that this was the main reason why the club decided on the change. Simon was fairly inexperienced as a trainer on the elite level. That means that he needed to develop as a coach as well. In this sense he wasn’t a good fit for a team that has high ambition. In order to develop players and develop a team that could eventually compete on a European level, a trainer has to be experienced and sure of themselves. Simon was experiencing all of this stuff for the first time and that means that he was being asked to be something that he was not.
In all fairness, our team is not an easy one to come into. Especially if you haven’t got very much experience. We have a lot of players that have strong personalities. We also have a lot of players who have been around for quite awhile. As a result, many of us have a good picture of how we want practice and games to be. When that expectation isn’t met it can make things hard. I don’t know if he would agree with this or not, but Simon is not a traditional coach. He likes to do things a little differently than some other coaches I’ve had. This is not to say that he is wrong. I do feel though, that for Marienlyst at this point it was wrong.
In my mind, Simon needs a few more years experience. Being thrown into this situation was not ideal for him as a developing coach. Technically, he knows what he is talking about, he has the ability to be a really good coach, he just needs time to get better. And maybe a situation that doesn’t put so many demands on him right from the beginning.
In the end it just wasn’t the right fit and I think that everyone involved knew it. Instead of waiting for things to possibly get worse the club decided to make the change now. I don’t think there is any kind of scandal here. The real pressure is now on the team to respond and start to play at a higher level. In the end it is always up to the players to make the coach look good.
Quick side note: I dislocated my shoulder before the match against Lyngby and am still hoping that it isn’t too bad. At the moment no one really knows how bad it is but I plan on trying to touch a volleyball a little bit tomorrow in practice. I’m generally optimistic though.
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"In order to develop players and develop a team that could eventually compete on a European level, a trainer has to be experienced"
I can't come as a suprise to the club that Simon wasn't very experienced as a coach on Elite level, so why did they hire him in the first place if they think they needed an experienced coach?
Maybe Marienlyst should kick out the guys that decided to hire Simon in the first place, because it's seems they did a much worse job than Simon.
Of course we can all look backwards and know exactly what should have happened at the time. Like I said before, I think the fit wasn't exactly right and no one knows how that will work out until they try it.
It's hard to look at a pair of shoes and know if they will feel good on your feet when you put them on.
Simon is a very qualified coach with a high level of training and there is no doubt that he will be a good coach in the future. The point is that Marienlyst doesn't want to spend the time to sit back and give a coach a lot of time to develop. And that decision should be respected.
There was nothing wrong with hiring a well-educated coach with a lot of potential.
Its allways a very difficult thing with Coaches. Its easier to remove a coach than a team as we see in Soccer, however the coach dont play the games.
I dont think there was a single volley enthousiast in denmark who didnt wonder why you hired a up and coming coach.
Unless this experience hits him to hard, he most likely has a good coahc career in front of him.
However anyone with coaching experience knows that probably the hardest job is to take over a championship team. I do not think that Simon really knew what that meant (and dont know it since i never talked with simon so its guesswork).
Taking over a championship team is such hard work since nomatter what ppl say, that players will still want to win. Even if loosing Mads and Peter made the team loose a lot, the expectation is still the same.
Simon puts himself in a situation where he really cannot impress or overachieve since the demand is championships, and he cannot loose games.
This is a nightmare situation for a new coach.
Added to that you have some very experienced players who will know more than the coach and thats a bad thing, added to that because he is new he will have to "give in" in many situations where he problably should just say the "shut up, you may be right but this is what i wanna do" type of thing.
A team like Maerienlyst, in the situation this season is for the team requires a experienced coach.
Again all above situations are pure guesswork, but thats what crossed my mind when you hired him.
I dont think your 2 end lines really go well together.
"Marienlyst doesn't want to spend the time to sit back and give a coach a lot of time to develop."
"There was nothing wrong with hiring a well-educated coach with a lot of potential. " (and no experience /w).
You hire a inexperienced coach, and then fire him because he is.
So basically i agree with the first anonymous poster.
but good luck, and i hope your change was the better one.
/William
I agree with what you say William, expectations are extremely high for anyone who is coaching a championship team. My point at the end was simply that Marienlyst took a chance on a coach that has potential and then found out that potential was not enough. There are certain coaches with little elite experience that can step in and do the job like they have been doing it for years. It just turns out that in this situation it didn't work out. I still think it was an okay decision to hire him in the first place, just too bad it didn't work out in the end...
Jens havde heller ingen erfaring som elite-coach da han begyndte i Marienlyst. Men dengang var holdet heller ikke et mesterhold, hvilket betød at træner og hold udviklede sig sammen.
Jeg mener, at Simon havde en utaknemlig opgave ved at overtage et helt hold der stort set var intakt i forhold til sidste sæson. Det ville have været svært for enhver træner, også en der er højt-uddannet, eller en der havde en masse erfaring. Husk på at Marienlyst-holdet så vidt vides egentlig var meget godt tilfreds med som tingene foregik, og så er det også som spiller/hold svært at omstille sig til noget nyt og anderledes, for det gik jo meget godt. Næsten ingen ønsker at forandre sig hvis man er tilfreds med den måde tingene foregår på. Det må edderma'me være svært som ny træner at stå overfor den udfordring det er at ønske at komme med egne ideér og så samtidig møde et hold der holder fast på fortiden.
Det kræver som andre har skrevet en vis portion erfaring, og en enorm pondus, eller ihvertfald en enorm selvtillid.
Tingene var vist allerede kørt lidt af sporet mellem Simon og holdet, så jeg tror det er meget godt at man har taget konsekvensen så tidligt på sæsonen, for så er der håb forude for at det nye træner-team, kan skabe en bedre trænings-atmosfære og forhåbentlig et højere niveau i kampene!!! Vil jo gerne se en pokal-sejr og et nyt Mesterskab igen i denne sæson
Mette,
You make a good point about the past. Everyone was definitely satisfied with the way things were going, so it is only natural that no one wanted to really change, or go against the "status quo". And that of course is a problem that the club and players have as much responsibility in as the new coach does. In my mind, someone has to come in and have a noticeable and definitive way that they want to do things. They have to have a system that they believe in strongly in order to put their own stamp on things. In many cases this means that the trainer needs to have experience like I have said before.
It is important to mention, and maybe I didn't make this clear before, that the players have to take some responsibility for what happened.
Anyways, I'd like to see a couple more Marienlyst medals this year as well...
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