Tutor in Sport Science @ManMetUni PhD in All things Talent ID, Profiling and Data 🥇⚽️🔮💻📊
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13 Jun 2025
Next week I will be attending @WCSS2025 presenting on our latest study (Scan QR) and the wider topic of Talent ID, Development, and (De)Selection.
Looking forward to a great event and connecting with everyone in the world of Science and Soccer! #WCSS2025 #Soccer #TalentID
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Apr 27
🚨Excited to share our new study published in International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport 🎉
Thanks to co-authors 🙌
@MatthewAndrew23 @SteveBarrett5 @naomisportssci @JFahey22
Available at:
🔗bit.ly/techloco
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Key Findings:
⚽Practice overloads technical actions (2–5× more touches, ~2× time on ball)
🏃♀️Locomotor demands are lower in practice (less HSR & sprinting)
📈Maturity shapes both technical locomotor outputs
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“Do youth female soccer players really train like they play?”
Delighted to share the publication of our latest research in the International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport.
The full article is now available online and is open access:
doi.org/10.1080/24748668.202…
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Jan 30
The TIDES Society Inaugural Conference -Reimagining Talent: People, Places, and Possibilities in Sport
Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to examine how talent is identified, developed, governed, and experienced.
Registration now open:
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1 Dec 2025
This is my first time seeing this guy I don’t even know his name and he’s already one of my favourite players.
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4 Nov 2025
🚨Challenges ⚠️and Solutions✅ to talent (de)selection⚖️ and development📈 in academy soccer environments ⚽️ insight💡 club case study> implementation of a multidisciplinary profiling tool 🛠️
Thanks to co-authors @ktconditioning @S_Emmonds @AdzKerr 👏🏻
bit.ly/4nGPiMG
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31 Oct 2025
We're delighted to announce that the Society's inaugural conference will be held at Leeds Beckett University, Carnegie School Of Sport on 10-12th June 2026. More information to follow...
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19 Sep 2025
🚨NEW BOOK SERIES LAUNCH!🚨
Very pleased to share our new @tides_society book series - Routledge Talent Identification and Development Environments in Sport 📕
Find out more about the book series here ⤵️
routledge.com/tides
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12 Sep 2025
Free access the full article: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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12 Sep 2025
🚨 What do college coaches REALLY look for when recruiting players? 🚨
Our new scientific research is perfect timing as the college soccer season kicks off and verbal commitments roll in.
We surveyed 178 NCAA Division I & II coaches to uncover what matters most in talent ID.
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Explore #combatsport science with @DaleRead4,
@stebbina, @SamBarra8 and @AdamKirkwood99 at 'Beyond the Fight: The Science of Combat Sport’. They'll be presenting on ‘Translating science into strikes: evidence-based training in taekwondo.’🥋 20 September: t.ly/4NRH7
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20 Jun 2025
⚽️ 🌎 A great few days at @WCSS2025
Really pleased with the opportunity to present our latest work: bit.ly/_SSSEO 📝 ⭐ @ktconditioning @S_Emmonds @AdzKerr
🙌🏻 A great event and was fantastic to catch up with everyone in the @tides_society!
See you all in 2 years 🤞🏻
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17 Jun 2025
Gareth receiving Hudds CAMRA club of the year for the 14th time and 10 in a row! Bloody well done to Gareth, the staff and the members who make the club what it is!!
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16 Jun 2025
Funded PhD position in women's football
Together with @BurnleyFCWomen, we @McrInstSport @ManMetUni are offering a unique embedded PhD
Deadline: Friday 27th June
See below for full details mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate…
@stebbina
@NaomiDatson
@TomDosSantos91
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Sam Barraclough retweeted
9 Jun 2025
🚨⚽️#newresearch
Relative age effect at @Concacaf championships: Influence of sex, age, nationality, playing position, and playing status
Open access: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
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