This scenario is taken from an actual game but is really a multi-part play consisting of: 1 – Defensive Transition Positioning to Create Enticing Teasing Distance 2 – Offensive Transition Positioning to Create Enticing Pass Option + Engage Multiple Defenders Around You This will present itself in a game at various times but it’s also...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS – PLAYING TOO FAST WHEN NOT DEEP ENOUGH
This game/training scenario piggy backs off off from yesterdays lengthening the ground scenario bit in the maybe the most important spot on the ground to get right. The kick inside forward 50 is the most critical kick in football but that can be set up by what you do with the ball and your players...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS – LENGTHENING THE GROUND
In 2022 footy is played completely different how it used to be played in 80’s and 90’s when I was a kid. The disappointing this is that it’s still often coached that way and nuances of the game that were evident back then have faded out of the game as new ball/player movement tactics have...
MY JUNIOR FOOTBALL GAME STATS!
Today marks 2 years since the old man passed away suddenly and posted at the time how he was me my 3 brother’s greatest supporter in all our sporting endeavors. While cleaning out his flat at the time we came across the game stats he used to take for all us for every game of...
4 SCHOOL FOOTY TRAINING ACTIVITIES I’VE USED THIS YEAR PART 4
There’s nothing I love more than coaches letting some little cats out of their bag in regards to tactics and coaching nous and Collingwood’s Craig McRae isn’t shy, or guarded, in a lot his press conferences. I watch every one of his and of course John Longmire (Swans supporter), and they could not be ore...
BUILDING PLAYER ANTICIPATION
Anticipation might just be the most under-rated part of football mainly because it seems hard to quantify but when it isn’t displayed you can definitely notice. This past weekend we saw great individual anticipation from Fremantle’s Michael Frederick to stay alert to the umpire’s call/s and run in to smother Noah Balta’s set shot that...
2 x 5v4 TRAINING ACTIVITY
Having seen a heap of local/amateur footy in my days, when the ball is in the backline then the mantra is pretty much get the ball out of there using as few players as possible with as much territory as possible. Now that’s not a bad ploy but I’d bet more times than not that...
HOW SYDNEY DISMANTLED FREO WITH PLAYER AND BALL MOVEMENT
Below is a 14min video detailing 10 plays from the Sydney Swans form the 2nd half of their match against Fremantle from last Saturday, a season defining win that could result in a top 4 finish and allow for a genuine tilt at a Grand Final, 2 years removed from winning 5 games back in...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS – MOVE THE OPPOSITION TO MOVE THE BALL
This game scenario doesn’t really play out as such in the game video but it started to before the siren went and halted play. Regardless, just the 1 kick-mark option alone had the huge potential to set off dominoes, a basketball term, where once you draw 1 defender, you can use the initial outnumber to...
4 SCHOOL FOOTY TRAINING ACTIVITIES I’VE USED THIS YEAR PART 3
Here’s another 4 training activities that I’ve used with my school team so far this season. Some of the activities are progressions of the same activity from the week/s prior and some train a specific aspect that we wanted to focus on from the previous week. As always we are dependent on training numbers between...