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Devon Crickets' Martin Webb, Chairman of the ECBCA gives his witty opening address to four hundred plus coaches at Warwick University on Saturday 19th January 2008. He was followed by Jonnie Wilkinson's kicking guru, Dave Alred who gave a memorable seminar on "High Performance Under Pressure" cumulating in one of the young lady coaches learning to goal kick in front of all the coaches and having to kick the ball, between the posts, Devon's Martin Webb and Richard Houldsworth, the ICC European Development Manager. Over the two day Conference the eighteen Devon coaches, the most coaches attending from a Minor County enjoyed workshops, amongst others,
given by Dave Houghton, "Batting Against Pace"; Kevin Shine "Coaching Fast Bowlers"; Simon Timson "Preparing to Play with Pace: More Than
Just Technique?; Joce Brooks " Psychology and Fast Bowling"; Mark Garaway  "Analysis and the England Team"; Julien Fountain " Fielding for the Quicks"; Nigel Stockill " Circuits For Fast Bowlers" and Ashley Giles " From County to Country; Connecting the two" Watch the Coaches' web pages for Conference photos and reports and the special Conference ENewsletter.
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