Nathan Jones

Coaching Sessions

Improving counter-attacks

Attacking

This counter-attacking session is built around our own counter-attacking principles. It progresses from a simple wave practice and eventually leads into a small-sided game, where everything that we get the players to do revolves around our counter-attacking principles. This means winning the ball back quickly and always making the first or second pass forwards, without slowing down the play. The speed and timing of supporting runs is also important, as is the type of support and the finish. W...

When to press and when to drop

Defending

This session is all about teaching players when to press and when to drop as a defensive unit and it encourages them to identify and respond to the visual triggers shown by their opponents.

Biography

Nathan Jones is currently in his second spell as manager of Championship side Luton Town. He began his pro career as a defender at the club in 1995 but after a year at Kenilworth Road, Jones left for a 12-month spell in Spain, playing for Badajoz and Numancia. On returning to the UK he played for Southend, Brighton and Yeovil, winning promotion three times with Brighton. It was with his final club, Yeovil, that Jones began taking his coaching badges, and in 2009 he became the club’s assistant manager. After a brief spell as U21s manager at Charlton, he was appointed assistant head coach at Championship side Brighton in 2013. Going on to serve the club as first team coach, he also enjoyed a brief spell as its caretaker manager. Appointed manager of League Two side Luton Town in January 2016, he saved the club from relegation in his first season in charge and oversaw promotion to League One a year later. In January 2019, with Luton flying high in second place in League One, Jones was appointed manager of Stoke City but he returned to Luton Town almost 18 months later and saved the Championship side from relegation.

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