I first noticed full-team lane running by the Sydney Swans back in 2021 when our offense first starting exploding but there’s still only them and Collingwood who use it regularly and it is a staple of launching from half back for both teams. In the women’s game, Melbourne and North Melbourne have jumped on board...
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL TRAINING ACTIVITIES PART 7
As promised, here’s the rest of the training activities I’ve used with my senior women’s football team so far this year and to back up on previous posts, you want just enough variety to still provide enough repetition at the activities that best replicate what you want to see in games which builds adaptability. If...
SYDNEY v FREMANTLE GAME ANALYSIS
Are the Swans back or are the Dockers disappointing once again? At the moment it’s a bit of both yet but Sydney need to win every game form now on + have other teams lose to the right teams to make the 8 and Freo don’t need to look any further then this weekends game...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CARLTON AND COLINGWOOD
If you gave yesterday’s Carlton/Collingwood’s game analysis a watch then you’ll be all over this as I explained a lot of this during that video but I feel this could help all coaches so I thought I’d isolate these 2 clips specifically to help as many of you as I can. Simply going on the...
CARLTON v COLLINGWOOD GAME ANALYSIS
As is becoming customary at this point, there was zero physical (46 v 60 tackles) or tactical (8 goals from 49 entries v 17 from 60) response from the Blues in this game and not that I see sacking Voss will do anything at this point, but it’s a long tail to the season if...
COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 1 – FORWARD PRESS DEFENSE SNEAK PEAK
The forward press defense was popularised by Richmond during their premiership years where Sydney started using it very soon after and now a bunch of clubs use it regularly. This needs to be a full team mentality as every player needs to be all-in on this for it to work, otherwise huge holes will be...
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL TRAINING ACTIVITIES PART 6
Haven’t posted one of these for a while so I have a back log of training activities to post so I’ll do a 13 (13! 13!!!) today and another 15 or whatever’s left next week to catch all the way up on these. You’ll notice that a lot of them are similar in how they...
COLLINGWOOD v WEST COAST GAME ANALYSIS
Not much was expected from this game over the weekend but the provided a very good showing of themselves, even if the Pies were trying a short kicking game that worked into the Eagles hands as far as pressuring was concerned. As always though it’s all in the consistency of effort and execution for the...
SYDNEY v WESTERN BULLDOGS GAME ANALYSIS
The Swans are finally back in form but it’s come too late and even winning every game left for the rest of the season, we still fall a game short of the 8 at best! That being said hopefully we can take some scalps on the way home and take something out of 2025. An...
COGNITION IN ELITE FOOTBALLERS PART 11 CHATPGT VERSION!
I broadened my technical horizon’s during the week and with how long the Cognition in Elite Footballers series went, thought I’d see what ChatGPT would do to it and mucked around with it for the first time. It’s still very detailed but an obvious shorter and abbreviated version was spat out and here’s what it...