Aussie Rules Training

The Dogs had 1 weird season in 2025. Despite scoring the most points in the league and the 8th best defense, they still couldn’t make finals, going 2-9 against the other top 9 teams. Unless you’re a bottom 6 team playing the top 6 – 8 teams maybe 4 – 5 times a year, then...

I thought I posted this last week but hence, I was incorrect so here it is! From these 2 games we look at: Port Forward Not Reading the Game Cues North Outnumber Advantage Fail Saints Getting Width But Can’t Fully Utilise the Corridor St Kilda Forward 50 Throw In Goal Melbourne at Center Bounce Clearance...

North will be North won’t they? Given, potentially, the bottom 5 teams in their 1st 6 games, the AFL set them up to start with momentum and then see what they can do with it. Losing on just the 2nd game to the Eagles certainly put a stop to that, at least for the time...

She was a fast start to this one with an 11 goal 1st quarter with Sydney getting the game to look like they wanted it to, scoring 3.1 from turnover and another 3.0 from clearances (8-5). After that though the Hawks made all the adjustments that mattered and just took it away from the Swans...

The Dogs look outstanding with a better defense but their offense is also better than last year which is a truly frightening prospect. The Giants are going to be inconsistent this year with the outs they have the young replacements they have in instead, at least until some of those injured players get back anyway...

AFL in 2026 has come with a bunch of rule changes but also with a shift in how teams are moving the ball on offense. Yes, the stand rule allows for play tempo to be maintained but teams are already on the run anyway, they’re now just more confident continuing to go fast and not...

Coach AFL just put this up on their Facebook page today – a training activity (we’ve got to move on from drills that are predetermined and based on routine – language matters!). They’ve been dormant for some time but have fired back up of the back of the Coaching Forum but it should never stop...

New Year, New Football. The pace of the game has definitely sped up for the time being although I suspect by rounds 5 – 6 coaches will have gone to work to slow it back down in an attempt to gain more control of different game variables. In the meantime though, let’s enjoy the show....

“It was the worst of times, it was the best of times” – Charles Dickens 1859 Paraphrase Quarters 1 and 2 was an absolute mess for the Swans last night with 6 – 7 fumbles no one should ever make and the following stats v Carlton: Disposals -108, Contested Possession -40, Uncontested Possession -61 That...

SKILL ACQUISITION TRAINING/DRILL DESIGN – AUSTIN STUBBS / MARC SOPHOULIS I’ve posted about various modules I’ve done of Austin’s before so when I saw him on the Saturday and told me he was on the next day I made sure I was there – he’s been an analyst at various clubs in the AFL/VFL system...