In the last video of round 4 (Thursday game tomorrow- finally!) we have 7 clips looking at: West Coast in all sorts from poor rebounding from defensive 50, to a potentially better strategy to moving the ball through the mid 50, to giving up control of the ball in your forward half Great Freo midfield/forward...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – NORTH MELBOURNE v BRISBANE
Brisbane and North Melbourne have been 2 of the best teams in AFLW since each others inception in season 1 and season 3 respectively. This past weekend’s game was another close contest with the Lions registering a come from behind win away from home to keep them in arms’ length of the top end of...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: LANE RUNNING, DEF WING RUN, CONNECTION, CARLTON JUST OFF
We’ve got 19 clips over 3 videos from round 4, a banger of a round with upsets and come from behind victories. Today we look at: Melbourne developing their lane running but off of a general play ball up at half back How the best wingers play as goal keepers in the defensive half, allowing...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIO – MIDFIELD/FORWARD CONNECTION
First one of these for a while! This game/training scenario looks at midfield and forward connection in fast play and came from the Western Bulldogs/Hawthorn AFLW game from round 2. PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – Contested situation at our center half back GAME MOMENT – Ball kicked out of contest and marked in the center of...
AFLW ROUND 3 GAME ANALYSIS: ST KILDA v PORT ADELAIDE
This post is focused on the St Kilda/Port Adelaide game from this past weekend with 3 clips from that game. The first clip looks at how Poet Adelaide develop their forward half defensive formation while possessing the ball through slow play and then I suggest a minor improvement on how they could have really ramped...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – DEVELOPING LANES FROM A KICK OUT, FORWARD LINE COHESION, NOT HAVING ANY PLAYERS INSIDE 50, MID 50 LASSO DEFENSIVE FORMATION
Today I have 4 clips that I dive into: Melbourne developing their running lanes from a kick out Fremantle forward line cohesion West Coast trying to score with a huge outnumber disadvantage and obviously failing Gold Coast team defense off mid 50 lasso free kick...
AFLW ROUND 3 GAME ANALYSIS – GEELONG v NORTH MELBOURNE
2 of the best teams went at it on the weekend in Geelong and North Melbourne and after the first half, it looked like the Roos were in all sorts before a remarkable 3rd quarter got them the lead and they held on. Both teams get everything started from their respective midfield’s but the Ruck...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – PLAY SWITCH, CONNECTION, CENTER BOUNCE FORMATIONS, CREATING OUTNUMBERS, TEMPO
These are my 6 left over game analysis clips from AFLW round 2. There’s a switch of play from Adelaide, poor midfield-forward connection from the Bulldogs, 2 North Melbourne center bounce masterpieces, Carlton’s inability to create and use an outnumber advantage and Collingwood failing to play at the right tempo at the right time and...
BRISBANE/COLLINGWOOD AFLW FORWARD HALF TEAM DEFENSE
Today’s pattern of play from my game analysis looks at defending out of bounds on the full free kicks against our team, deep in our own forward 50. There’s 2 clips of Brisbane from the same game v Port Adelaide and then 1 clip of Collingwood the very next day v Fremantle. All 3 clips...
LANE RUNNING – MELBOURNE AFLW v COLLINGWOOD AFLM
I’ve posted numerous clips showing how Collingwood go about their lane running during transition offense and it’s a big part of how they manage to get so many good looks at goal even though they have rarely have more inside 50’s then their opposition. Over in AFLW, Melbourne and North Melbourne have been using it...