Charlie Oatway : Inside Out

[Worthai Seagull]

Just watch it.....inspiring . It sort of sums up our amazing football club as well .
AND...we shouldnt underestimate his role in the last few months with Gus and Tanno...he is a very important part of the future . (seagulls.co.uk)

 

[NS Herald]

Just watched it myself - Charlie deserves a huge amount of credit for not only facing these issues but dealing with it in such a public way.

He seems to have a good rapport with Gus and hopefully will be part of the dream management team for years to come.

Well done Charlie

 

[pishhead]

BBC - BBC One Programmes - Inside Out South, 08/03/2010, Adult literacy.

A link for anybody interested.

 

[Uncle C]

Just watched it myself - Charlie deserves a huge amount of credit for not only facing these issues but dealing with it in such a public way.

He seems to have a good rapport with Gus and hopefully will be part of the dream management team for years to come.

Well done Charlie

Link??

 

[glasfryn]

what a great guy he is
well done Charlie and all power to you mate
hey and you ain't a bad footballer either

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I liked Oatway as a player - and he seems to be a top man. But it is a major surprise he is our first team coach. He doesn't come over as a deep thinker - which I'd have thought you would need assuming he sorts out the training schedules to meet the managers objectives for that day. I'm not complaining - it is just a surprise.

 

[Stoaty Ferret]

He's brilliant is our Charlie!
Really glad he is part of the club still - Gus must recognise the good he does behind the scenes in keeping team spirit strong and people on their toes.

 

[pishhead]

I liked Oatway as a player - and he seems to be a top man. But it is a major surprise he is our first team coach. He doesn't come over as a deep thinker - which I'd have thought you would need assuming he sorts out the training schedules to meet the managers objectives for that day. I'm not complaining - it is just a surprise.

Whilst I take your point to a degree on the outside he may not come across as a deep thinker but he comes across to me as a pure motivator and also speaks very very well, I would imagine he has also worked under quite a lot of decent managers both here and elsewhere so if he can take a bit from each of them then there is no reason why he can't go on to have a very successful coaching career. Also a coaching job is completely different to that of a manager, for great coaches who never cut it as a manager read Peter Taylor and Bryan Kidd off the top of my head.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

Fantastic stuff Charlie
A huge personal achievement made even greater by your work to help others. Inspirational

 

[Brixtaan]

I liked Oatway as a player - and he seems to be a top man. But it is a major surprise he is our first team coach. He doesn't come over as a deep thinker - which I'd have thought you would need assuming he sorts out the training schedules to meet the managers objectives for that day. I'm not complaining - it is just a surprise.

He just completes a dream management set-up.Here we have an imported exotic management duo,one an attack specialist and the other defensive.Both highly respected for their achievements but both unfamiliar with Brighton so they needed a local sargeant major type who knows the club and he fits the bill pefectly.

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Top bloke and a difficult issue to speak about.

 

[Mackenzie]

Pretty inspiring stuff that. Well done Charlie

 

[dougdeep]

Thanks for posting this. I always new he had guts.

 

[beorhthelm]

He doesn't come over as a deep thinker - which I'd have thought you would need assuming he sorts out the training schedules to meet the managers objectives for that day.

im not sure you need to be a thinker to arrange training, just organisation and paying attention over the years to how its done. he played under some good managers (arguably one of the country's best coaches in Peter Taylor) that all had success here, so im sure he picked up alot. think the role is more fitness, drilling basics and motivation than tactical nuances. as someone said, Sergeant-Major type and thats very much Oatway.

 

[Addick]

My Son was having a largish operation on his legs when I was a STH at the Withdean. I wrote to Charlie with a Card saying could the Players sign it and enclosed a SAE. Thought nothing else of it. Day before he went in BHAFC rang me at work. Charlie had got them to find me from the address on the SAE/STH link and to my astonishment Charlie invited me and my Son to the next days training session at the Withean. He had arranged for my son to have lunch with all the Players who signed a shirt for him and gave him a 5 star send off to Hospital....made my sons day. Charlie Oatway top top man

 

[Billy the Fish]

I liked Oatway as a player - and he seems to be a top man. But it is a major surprise he is our first team coach. He doesn't come over as a deep thinker - which I'd have thought you would need assuming he sorts out the training schedules to meet the managers objectives for that day. I'm not complaining - it is just a surprise.

When you say deep thinker I think you're misconstruing the role of a coach, and perhaps even the managers' job as well. If you compare it to real life foootball is more like a trade than something academic. You learn on the job and it's the only thing you do every day for 20odd years, most professional footballers probably have the knowledge to coach in their sleep by the time they've finished their career, after that it comes down to personality and we know that's one thing Charlie doesn't lack.

If you asked a plumber to read a novel and write a 5000 word essay he probably wouldn't be able to do it, by the same token university lecturer might not ever be capable of installing a boiler and 10 rads in a house. Horses for courses innit.

 

[Mackenzie]

When you say deep thinker I think you're misconstruing the role of a coach, and perhaps even the managers' job as well. If you compare it to real life foootball is more like a trade than something academic. You learn on the job and it's the only thing you do every day for 20odd years, most professional footballers probably have the knowledge to coach in their sleep by the time they've finished their career, after that it comes down to personality and we know that's one thing Charlie doesn't lack.

If you asked a plumber to read a novel and write a 5000 word essay he probably wouldn't be able to do it, by the same token university lecturer might not ever be capable of installing a boiler and 10 rads in a house. Horses for courses innit.

Nicely put.

 

[windowlicker]

does anyone know when this was filmed because i noticed liam dickinson was training.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

When you say deep thinker I think you're misconstruing the role of a coach, and perhaps even the managers' job as well. If you compare it to real life foootball is more like a trade than something academic. You learn on the job and it's the only thing you do every day for 20odd years, most professional footballers probably have the knowledge to coach in their sleep by the time they've finished their career, after that it comes down to personality and we know that's one thing Charlie doesn't lack.

I suspect it works in different ways at different Clubs - depending on the type of manager. With more hands-off managers (O'Neill and Ferguson) they apparently do not get involved with sessions - so I assume the coach decides and executes these. Poyet is I assume very hands-on.

I think it must be very difficult to put together training sessions, and keep them challenging and interesting for seasoned old pro's - even before you are charged with working on particular aspects of the game, or style of play. I did some of this with a youth team - and it is a challenge - but as you say these blokes have all got decades of experience.