This will be the final edition of the AFLW Insights for season 2021 so I hope you’ve enjoyed watching/reading them and also been able to improve your own game intelligence from them as well, regardless if you’re a player or a coach. ADELAIDE TRANSITION OFFENSE PART 1 MY TAKE The Crows had some excellent pasages...
AFLW INSIGHTS 2021 – FINALS WEEK 2
MELBOURNE v ADELAIDE ZONE DEFENSE I just noticed these wide screen shots during the game and thought I’d take a closer look at them and here’s pretty much what they looked like with Adeliade like this: …and Melbourne like this: Pretty similar but here’s a few thoughts on them. Adelaide get 12 defenders back as...
GAME #1 OF MY COACHING CAREER
Piggy backing off my most recent post late last week about my very late appointment of Yarraville – Seddon FC reserves coach in division of the WRFL here in Melbourne, here’s a look at how I’ve gone about the last 2 weeks between the ultra chaotic practice game and round 1. With us getting essentially...
NEW HORIZONS
My last game of footy was an extremely dissapointing elimination final loss 593 days ago. Since then I have trained 556 of those days in preparation for whenever the next game was to arrive…and here it is. A lot of things changed in 2020 going into 2021 didn’t it? My work situation changed as I...
AFLW INSIGHTS 2021 – FINALS WEEK 1 PART 2
PERCEPTION-ACTION COUPLING MELBOURNE GOAL MY TAKE Perception-Action Coupling is a must for all team sports and in a nutshell, refers to reacting to what you see. Now WHAT you see is dependant is how many different scenarios you’ve been exposed and also how many different solutions you’ve attempted to solve whatever problems arise within them....
AFLW FINALS WEEK 1 – KICK OF THE WEEK
AFLW INSIGHTS 2021 – FINALS WEEK 1
SHALLOW FREMANTLE EXITS FROM DEFENSE MY TAKE I’ve had a shallow exit insight in most weeks for season 2021 and Freo really excelled in them this past weekend. Freo are at their best when they can recound out of defense and surge down the ground getting over the back-type goals but from a combination of...
AFLW ROUND 9 – KICK OF THE WEEK
AFLW INSIGHTS 2021- ROUND 9 PART 4
VESIO LONG RUN AND GOAL MY TAKE You can actually track Vesio through this entire play from her mark in the defensive half to her goal and it just goes to show that you don’t have to be able to run the length of the ground at pace so long as you can read the...
AFLW INSIGHTS 2021- ROUND 9 PART 3
WESTERN BULLDOGS INSIDE 50 MY TAKE I liked what the Bulldogs tried here. They’ve got the best contested mark in the AFLW by far in Huntington so 2 players decoy lead out to create some extra space for her and to drag some defenders with them. What I would like to see if Toogood to...