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Grant McCann

Grant McCann

Coaching Sessions

Reaction to transitions

Reaction to transitions

Transitions
This session is about the players and their reactions to transitions, both in an attacking sense and a defensive sense. It’s all about how quick we can win the ball back and how effective we can be with it when we’ve won it.
Pressing & pre-season conditioning

Pressing & pre-season conditioning

Pre-season
This session is about pressing, with a focus on the transition after winning the ball, and it’s one that we specifically use in pre-season. We usually run it in week three of our pre-season training programme, when the content starts to switch to more football-specific conditioning activities.
Possession/transition

Possession/transition

Attacking
This game is focused mainly on the attacking process so it encourages use of all of the main strengths of the attackers, including their pace and skill. It’s really all about scoring a goal as quickly as possible, and with a time-limited opportunity to score.

Biography

A former Northern Ireland international with 39 caps to his name, when Grant McCann retired from playing he joined the coaching staff of Peterborough United, a club he had represented for five seasons.

Appointed assistant manager at London Road, he enjoyed his first brief spell as the club’s caretaker manager in September 2015 (including a 5-1 win at Oldham), and his second in April 2016 (including a 5-1 home victory over Blackpool). He was appointed Peterborough manager after the success of his second spell as caretaker manager and was named League One Manager of the Month for August 2017.

He was subsequently appointed manager of Doncaster Rovers and led the club into the 2019 League One playoffs, only to lose a semi-final penalty shootout. He became Hull City manager in June 2019.

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