As we talk about coaching in Bermuda, it is evident that there are many opinions, some that I agree with and others that I don't.

I will say that one of my new challenges and aspirations is to one day become Bermuda's national coach. One might say, "How can he say that publicly?" My answer would be that if you can dream it, you can achieve it.

The reality is that Bermuda "is another world", especially in our sports departments. Many coaches have come and gone over the years and left their mark one way or another. But would you agree with me in saying we have never got the full benefit of their coaching abilities due to the daily challenges that they faced from the players, the administration, and the clubs?

Coaching in Bermuda has to be one of the toughest professions around, with continuous obstacles relating to training facilities and player commitment.

In essence, there is no single solution that can even begin to solve our problems.

With that being said, good coaching is an element that is part of the solution. We need to improve the standard of our coaches and the way that we coach in Bermuda, especially at the club level. Coaches must have the passion and the insight to bring the best out of their players no matter what obstacles are in their way.

At the national level we need to ensure that someone is monitoring the various coaches' training sessions and assessing those sessions, thus giving feedback so that we can raise our overall standards in the game Island-wide.

I know from experience that Gus Logie has a strategy/philosophy in how he wants Bermuda to play the game internationally, and we can only accomplish this if it is passed on to at the very least the youth national coaches within the Board. This will produce consistency in each age group thus creating professionalism and stability in the whole national programme.

When you look at coaches on a club level you have to ask what are they teaching their players? For the most part a training session at club level these days would consist of a hit in the nets, a few high catches and a cool down - if you are lucky.

Some coaches have standards while others don't. I passed by several clubs last season from time to time and very rarely were players even training two nights a week. What does this tell you? It is obvious that standards have dropped at clubs and until clubs take the initiative to raise the bar our players will continue to have a nonchalant approach.

I recall sitting in on a conversation last year when a coach said, "Player 'A' scores runs for me week in and week out so no matter whether he trains or not he has to play in my team."

I was dumbfounded! So I replied, "What happens when a young player scores 50 runs on a weekend and decides I am not going to train next week because I know my coach is still going to play me."

A bad precedent like this sets up the scenario of disrespect towards the coach and to the game of cricket itself. This lack of disrespect for authority then filters right through to the national programme, creating lack of player participation, commitment, discipline . . . need I go on.

Coaches, we have to get back to the days of if you don't train, you don't play. While we all like to win, we cannot sacrifice the entire programme for a few players who do not wish to train. We must start playing the players who are willing to put the work in.

If the other players who rarely like to train love the game, when you drop them it will make them realise that they are not invincible and eventually they too will train. At the same time we as coaches must equip ourselves with as must knowledge as possible, thus the reason why I will be heading to England this summer with Cleveland.

To have a coach is vital to a cricket programme, but to have quality coaching is even more significant to keep the programme progressing. With us as a country looking to raise the standard of our game internationally, we must develop quality coaches - coaches who can identify skilful players, coaches who can get the best out of players and coaches who can manage all sorts of players, not just those who are trouble-free to deal with.

Motto for the week: 'Coaching is a profession of love. You can't coach people unless you love them' - Eddie Robinson