Month: January 2021

The 3rd and final installment of psychological co-active tips from Dan Abrahams. Cognitive Player Issues – Paying attention to cues and clues that are irrelevant/noise. Letting your mind wander. Will present as slow decision making through inexperience, inhibition through anxiety and an internal focus of attention too often. Learning – Promote learning rather than performance...

Here’s another 15 tips from Dan: Training Environment – Shapes attitude, energy and effort and each of these aren’t simply traits players have or not, they are choices the player has to display or not, and you have to bring it out of them and players will become better at choosing them in their given...

As I’ve mentioned many times before there’s 4 co-actives of performance: Tactical Psychological Technical Physical I’ve actually listed them in order of what I think is most important, especially for local/amateur football, with psychological being my number 2 behind tactical. My reasoning you ask? Tactics teach the player what to do and when. Psychological is...

Once you’ve devised your list of training scenarios that you think are important to be successful at to win games, then choose 1 scenario that consistently presents itself during a game to focus on at training, in this case fast play defense. The concept of defender 1/2/3 isn’t new but is probably more a case...

As I’m about the nuts and bolts of footy training being as representative of the game as possible, I believe the best way to go about that is through the use of scenarios. This resembles the game more than cone drills because it trains what does happen, not what you want to happen, which may...

In the final part of this Game Intelligence series inspired by this monster article I’ll take a look at how movement fits into all this and finally in-game decision making, which is how everything presented up until now presents within a game, why it presents as such and who it presents to specifically. I’ve deliberately...