Focussing on the finer details has been at the forefront of this for under-18’s coaches David McCallum and Cameron Campbell.
Recently introduced player development reports allow a breakdown of each player’s game, while the youngsters have been challenged to study a top professional to broaden their understanding of football.
Speaking to RangersTV this week, Campbell explained how the development reports work: “What we do is we now break down each individual's game based on key performance indicators that we see not only for their position but the way they play their position because it's possible to both be right-back but be a different type of right-back and that goes across positions.
"We sat down with the players in the first couple of weeks and we spoke to them about they want to make an impact.
"As a Rangers player no matter what position you play when you step on that football pitch you need to make an impact in some way.
"By doing the match reports what myself and David can do is we can see where the players strengths and weaknesses lie.
"I hate using the word weaknesses but what we actually call it is adding value and adding talent to that player so how can we add more talent.
"All those little bits of details help the coaching team really plan detailed sessions and on the flipside it also helps us track their development.
“Football is a really emotional game everyone gets caught up in it so it's sometimes hard when there's eleven players to watch everything that is going on and also remember it so by doing the development reports it takes away that opinion it leads more fact-based.
"If we're honest youth football is an individual sport because kids are going to have different pathways so we need to really tailor for that individual and the development reports allow us to do that really well."
Campbell was impressed with how much the young players learned from studying the game of first-team players.
He continued: “We looked at different ways they managed to make it into the game. Right now as a young football player a lot of the time the players think that it’s quite a straight process where they go from 16's to 18's to B team to first team and everything is rosy. In reality a lot of the time it may be a number of loans, some may be successful some unsuccessful but you can learn from both experiences.
"Sometimes you make your debut in the first team quite young and then you go out on loan so all these different things are great for the kids' education and the bigger sense of football.
"At the same time we are looking at what the top players do technically during matches and it's also allowed us to link that quite heavily toward our first-team players too.
"When you watch football it's easy to watch as a fan - we follow the ball and the action.
“What we're trying to get the kids to do is to watch the player that plays in their position so for example if we've got a young centre-mid can they watch Joe Aribo, Steven Davis or Ryan Jack and watch what they do without the ball.
"It's amazing how much they're now noticing in terms of the continual movement and the constant scanning and all these different things that they are picking up on that they didn't really quite understand goes into a top level football game.
"They are also learning a bit more about that playing style for when they make that jump from the Academy into the B team and then hopefully the first-team so it has been really beneficial."
Campbell praised the young players for their enthusiasm and motivation to continue to learn over this period.
He added: “It's the hardest thing in the world when you play team sport and you are disconnected. They’re used to that camaraderie in the changing room so to go from that to now training on your own is tough. Especially when the weather is like this it's dark all the time it's snowing and our boys have been brilliant.
"Some of the pictures are sending us where they're out on a pitch and it's snowing we're actually saying ‘watch yourself’ but it's brilliant the motivation and determination they've got to keep challenging themselves.”
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