Month: May 2020

AFL TEAMS TO HAVE UNDER 18 TEAMS Could the AFL be A 3 teir level organisation with senior, development and underage “teams”? The top underage kids can play some development if they’re good enough and the top development players can move up to seniors if they’re good enough – much like local footy does. Each...

I wrote these notes down when all the “raise the draft age” furore was around at the time so I’ll present my thoughts here which are a bit random so they’ll be in a dot point form with no real fluidity but you’ll get my idea/s anyway, some of which can be done, some which...

During the week I received an email froma reader asking about “what I’ve learnt about decision making” and here’s what I sent back: “…Thanks for the kind words mate. In a nutshell decision making can probably be put down into 2 camps: 1) Learning to Solve the Same Problem Many Ways – Using clearences as...

The 3rd and final part of what ended up being a monster peice of writing! BUILD CONFIDENCE EARLY WITHIN EACH PLAYERS BANDWIDTH I’m not sure if anyone has heard of bio-banding but it refers to grouping juniors into levels based on ability and/or size rather then simply age. Big kids play with the big kids...