Everyone loves a good old fashioned full ground training drill because it usually involves kicking which is the name of the game. A few issues with how these drills are usually done include: No tactical decision making at all via the cone to cone drills No positioning/locationing aspect Too many players in the 1 area,...
Offensive and defensive macro principles govern proper execution in specific moments. Macro principle of offense is player space Macro principle of offense to defense is ball pressure on a turnover Macro principle of defense is man pressure Macro principle of defense to offense is ball speed Essentially a game can be broken down: Player...
ALL coaches should be extra familiar with the SAID principle. What? You’re not? Simply outrageous. Put your learnin’ hat on then. Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands Right now I want you to think of all the footy drills you run for your players. I bet not 1 of them focus on 1 specific task to...
The 4 game moments of team sport are: Defense Transition Offense Offense Transition Defense and at any time in a game you are involved in 1 of these moments. In my last post we looked at defense and transition offense so this time around we’ll touch on the last 2, offense and transition defense....
The thing that stands out THE MOST in any game of footy at any level is sprinting speed – it’s that crystal clear what that player can do it’s ridiculous. Physically they have 1 specific trait over every single player on the ground and psychologically they have a huge edge as those playing on them...
The 4 game moments of team sport are: Defense Transition Offense Offense Transition Defense and at any time in a game you are involved in 1 of these moments. In this post we’ll touch on the first 2, defense and transition offense. DEFENSE The micro moments of defense are isolation, termination and dispossession Isolation refers...
This is the 3rd variation of the Rondo Drill. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. As per all Ronda variations this drill will train: Clean Hands Creating/Utilising Space Game Simulated Change of Direction Perception-Action Coupling On top of that though this will also introduce a very basic ball transition...
This is part 2 of my idea’s taken from the book The Process with part 1 being found here. THE GAME MODEL Is the model used to explain your team’s “game plan” in 1 common language and is crucial for teams at all levels to develop, as local/amateur teams have players from a variety of...
What you’ll see below is a real life scenario from the middle of last season (2019) when one of my teammates pulled his hammy for the 2nd time this year. We put together a return to play plan with a specific game times in mind for his comeback games, to be cherry ripe for the...
This kicking drill is best used as part of the warm up, after your dynamic work and maybe a handball if you just can’t bring yourself to go straight into kicking even though players get there and do nothing but kick before training starts anyway. It involves an element of technical skill but it’s best...