Mission Statement
- An ambitious and successful club of which the community is proud
- To provide the opportunity and environment for players to maximise their potential
Vision
- To have a centre of excellence that the club can be proud
- To provide opportunities for young people in the community of Doncaster and its surrounding areas to be involved with the club, with 1st class facilities and a safe and learning environment to have qualified motivated staff that are proud to work for the club
- Having great links with the clubs community scheme, local schools and the local boys teams
- To produce quality home grown players capable of playing 1st team football
Philosophy / Ethos
- To create a culture of hard work to achieve excellence, challenging individuals in a safe and pleasant environment giving them the best possible platform to achieve this, having enthusiastic players that are comfortable in possession of the ball and qualified staff that want to learn and develop as people with the support of equally enthusiastic parents
- We want it to be a place that demands high standards from all that attend, staff, players and parents showing discipline, hard work, respect and honesty, playing good attractive football
Values Of The Club
- Excellence – to create a culture of excellence through professionalism
- Flexibility – to commit to adaptability and acceptance of change
- Commitment – to take responsibility for my commitment towards meeting the Doncaster rovers mission
- Respect- to have the integrity to be open and honest and expect openness and honesty in return
- Enjoyment – to create a challenge and fun experience
Aims For The 7 To 11 Year Old
- Ball manipulation with both feet
- Running with the ball
- Dribbling with a range of techniques
- A variety of tricks
- and turns feints/disguise
- Understanding
- basic team shape and patterns
- Defending techniques
- Variation of receiving techniques
- Variations of passing techniques
- Enjoy it and have fun get lots of touches of the ball
- Want to come again
Aims for the 12’s to 16 year old
- Understand advanced team shapes and patterns / individual roles
- Good range of Passing Techniques
- Advanced range Of Dribbling Skills
- Defending techniques
- Able to retain possession of the ball
- Understand individual and team attacking plays
- Attitude to shoot and Ability to score goals
- Build on physical development
- Develop individual and team discipline / responsibilities
- Review and evaluate their own performance
- Have a good game understanding regarding problem solving and decision making
