Micky Mellon

Coaching Sessions

Playing into the strikers

Attacking

This session is all about working an overload to create opportunities to play directly into the feet of the strikers. It also encourages mobility from midfield to support the forward pass and creates situations for combination play.

Small-sided games

Skills & Techniques

Small-sided games provide the best foundation for players when looking for them to rehearse the key technical and tactical elements that are taught in training.

Attacking and defending transitions

Attacking

This session is about attacking and defending transitions, focusing on the key moments when the ball changes hands. We work on how we can defend and exploit these most exciting and important phases of the game, either by building a fast attack with the support of the full backs or by playing the ball early to the forwards.

Biography

A midfielder with West Brom, Blackpool, Tranmere and Burnley, Micky Mellon turned to coaching in 2006 as assistant manager of Lancaster City. He soon returned to Burnley as a youth coach and initially combined this role with managing non-league Fleetwood Town. After making the move to Fleetwood full time, he led the club to two promotions in three seasons, winning the Conference Premier title in 2012 and achieving promotion to the Football League for the first time in the club’s history.

Mellon subsequently enjoyed a spell in the EFL Championship at Barnsley as assistant manager and caretaker manager, before being appointed boss of Shrewsbury in 2014. He led the Shrews to automatic promotion to League One in 2015.

Becoming manager of National League side, Tranmere Rovers, he took the club back into the Football League as play-off winners in 2018 and into League One via the play-offs in 2019.

Mellon was appointed manager of Scottish Premiership club Dundee United in July 2020. He has co-authored a book on football management, The First 100 Days: Lessons in Leadership from the Football Bosses.

Stevie Grieve, Dundee United’s head of analysis and opposition scouting, also worked on this session and provided analysis which guides it.

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