This training activity focuses on both teams being able to maintain possession in their respective boundaries. The starting set up looks like this: Team Blue had 1 player along each side of the playing area (30x30m or so adjusting as needed) and then another 2 players in the middle of the playing area. Team Orange...
ST KILDA TRANSITION OFFENSE
The Saints won an almost-unwinnable game yesterday with 14 injuries prior to round 1 and 2 key forward debuts but we should never be surprised what extreme effort can do, although it looked like Freo was. In this short clip we have the Saints losing the center clearance but regaining possession just on the edge...
CUES v CONSTRAINTS FOR BETTER COACHING OUTCOMES
These notes come from a Twitter thread from Rugby performance coach Nick Winkelman on cues v constraints for better coaching outcomes. Coaches have a tendency to almost commentate what they’re seeing which results in too much instruction to many players all during game time – I don’t think I’ve ever heard, let alone acted upon,...
USING YOUR DEFENSIVE ANCHOR
Defensive 50 Intercept Marks are a huge part of football these days so it makes sense to instill some tactics/strategies to help make this happen so you’re not hoping someone takes a pack mark from out of nowhere which is not really controllable. What is controllable though is creating a defensive formation when out of...
SCORING SYSTEMS TO BETTER YOUR TRAINING GAMES
Once you’ve (hopefully) moved your coaching away from cone to cone drills to something closer to a games-based approach, then it’s time to really start making those games work for what you want to see on game day. A game is general is not the worst idea in that it consists of much of the...
CONTESTED BALL FRAMEWORK PART 2
If you want to take a load off your coaching load then frameworks are the way to go. Frameworks allow both coach and player to get on the same page tactically/technically and can trickle down to player and player as well for team cohesion. Players can use them outside of training and games to build...
CONTESTED BALL FRAMEWORK PART 1
If you want to take a load off your coaching load then frameworks are the way to go. Frameworks allow both coach and player to get on the same page tactically/technically and can trickle down to player and player as well for team cohesion. Players can use them outside of training and games to build...
USING “STAR” DEFENDERS AS OPPOSITION IN TRAINING ACTIVITIES
The more bridges you can find to connect training idea’s the better for your players ability to learn, retain and consolidate whatever tactic/strategies you’re trying to implement on game day. Usually it’s the designated play against no one like cone to cone drills that have players run through the perfect example of that play over...
WHY WE NEED MORE FEMALE HEAD COACHES IN FOOTBALL
With the introduction of the Women’s Coach Accelerating Program via the AFL in the middle of 2022, there is finally a real and transparent pathway for female coaches into the AFLW and hopefully, AFL ranks. I watched a coaching seminar from St Kilda’s season 1 AFLW Coach Pete Searle a few years ago and she...
HOW DO COLLINGWOOD TRAIN TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?
I have posted numerous scenarios and training activities pertaining to applying pressure by coming hard at the ball carrier and it is a major defensive ploy employed AFL teams like Richmond, Sydney and Collingwood. Damian Hardwick once said “if you’re going to make a mistake defensively, make it coming forward.” Having a quick watch of...