Dr Andy Badby, PhD | Helping athletes, coaches, & organisations find performance solutions through: Coaching | Education | Consultancy
Manchester, England
Joined May 2021
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✍️ 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹
We are pleased to announce that @academy_brfc full-back Harvey Pates has signed his first professional contract with the club.
Congrats, Harvey! 🌹
#Rovers 🔵⚪️
Dr Andy Badby retweeted
✍️ 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹
We are pleased to announce that central defender Michael Decandia has become the latest @academy_brfc starlet to sign his first professional contract with the club.
Congrats, Michael!
#Rovers 🔵⚪️
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🌹 On Saturday at Ewood Park, all age groups from @academy_brfc took part in a lap of honour to celebrate the continued contribution the Academy makes to the first team, as well as the numerous successes of the young #Rovers teams in various tournaments this season 👏
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📕 Great to be able to showcase issue 75 of @UKSCA’s #Professional #Strength & #Conditioning #Journal.
🔓 Some cracking papers in this issue and all are open access too. Link here: uksca.org.uk/journals.
🤔 How are you structuring MD-1 during fixture congestion?
❓ What drives player engagement?
❓ What transfers best into technical work?
My current approach:
1️⃣ SAQ – movement prep + low-level plyos
2️⃣ Ball mastery – high touches, session-specific patterns
#SportsScience ⚽️
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⏱️ Full-time: Burnley U21s 0-2 #Rovers U21s
AN EAST LANCASHIRE DERBY VICTORY! 🙌
#PL2 | #RoversAcademy 🌹
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🏆 #Rovers Under-12s triumphed too, winning the 2026 Challenge Cup Easter Elite Tournament in Portugal courtesy of a 6-3 victory over Dragon Force in the final! 👏
#RoversAcademy 🌹
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🏆 #Rovers Under-13s were also victorious in Portugal!
They won the 2026 Challenge Cup Easter Elite Tournament following a 2-1 victory over Rayo Vallecano in the final 👏
#RoversAcademy 🌹
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🏆 #Rovers Under-15s were today crowned winners of the 2026 IberCup in Portugal!
They triumphed following a 1-0 victory over Sporting CP in the final, with Cristian Mbonzale netting the winning goal! 👏
#RoversAcademy 🌹
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📺 Highlights: #Rovers U21s 3-1 Reading U21s
The best of the action from last night's #PLCup quarter-final.
#RoversAcademy 🌹
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Really proud of my players ⚽️🙌! And my staff.
Good attitude & discipline!
Well done guys 👍
Dr Andy Badby retweeted
🗣️ "𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙨"
#Rovers U21s Lead Coach Gregory Vignal on his side's #PLCup quarter-final against Reading at Accrington Stanley's Wham Stadium tomorrow night.
@academy_brfc 🔵⚪️
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✅ Tom Atcheson has been called up to the Northern Ireland senior squad for the first time 👏
Congrats, Tom! 🍀
#Rovers 🔵⚪️
As end-of-season physical testing approaches in ⚽️, check out our recommendations on force plate testing, including:
🧩 Test & metric selection
✅ Reliability
📊 Age-group discrimination
🎯 Normative data & benchmarks to gauge player performance
👉 doi.org/10.1080/02640414.202…
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💙 Congratulations to Frank Vare and Valentin Joseph, who are both named on the first-team bench this afternoon 👏
#ROVvMID | #Rovers 🔵⚪️
🌹🌹 Valentin Joseph makes his first matchday squad, with Frank Vare on the bench for the first time this season - @academy_brfc 👏
#ROVvMID | #Rovers 🔵⚪️
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In the final minute... @Rovers complete the comeback to secure their spot in the #FAYouthCup semi-finals! 🙌
I’ve spent the past few months experimenting with different movement patterns to develop multi-directional speed in ⚽️
15 minutes per day, 4-5 times per week, equals ~50 hours of field-based physical development time throughout a season 📈
#SportsScience #PhysicalDevelopment