I put this review article in my files not long ago and finally made my way to it late last week but failed to realise that when copied into my files it was 30 pages long and suffiuce to say, it was a very dense read and took me many goes to finally get though...
It looks like we’re in for an extended mid-season break, potentially until after the long weekend so let’s all take some time to take stock and see how we can improve on our processes and thus results, so far this season. As always ART has you covered so here’s a quick list of...
For the last couple of months I’ve been reading the book Yellow and Black by Konrad Marshall, a very detailed read that folows the inner sanctum of the Richmond Football Club throughout their premiership drought breaking 2017 season. It has been on my reading list since it came out in 2018 as I liked the...
Players Required: 10 – 11 Balls Required: 1 Space Required: 40 x 80m Drill Level: Moderate Nothing ground breaking here but the learning opportunities come through the constraints used in this game, which presents a lot of different affordances. AREA SIZE You can see the area sized I used last night and I used it...
Players Required: 9 Balls Required: 1 Space Required: 10 x 20m Drill Level: Moderate...
WHAT ARE AFFORDANCES? Affordances refers to practice design that involves the manipulation of task constraints, for the purpose of soliciting affordances for players to act upon. They present as opportunites/invitations for action and it’s up to the player whether to take them or not where a more attractive invite provides greater incentive to take it....
The man on the mark drill has been a big inclusion to all footy leagues and grades this year so it stands to good reason that you need to focus on being able to exploit it to your advantage and this drill aims at doing just that. This more a template of 1 way you...
SESSION #2
WARM UP – GROUNDBALL + HANDBALL REACTION INTO PUSH BACK KICK
You’ll need groups of 3 with 1 ball per group and but not a lot of space, even with the kicking layer but feel free to use more players per group if you don’t have a heap of balls but make it an odd number so each player rotates through each phase of the drill naturally (roll + press up/groundball + handball).
As the image says the sequence is:
We then layer that into a push back kick with a simialr sequence:
KIKCING DEVELOPMENT – CORRIDOR KICK
Set up multiple coned lanes over different distances (below) and set up in groups of 4.
There are several levels to this so the image above is just a sample of how you want to set the cones for a single level but each levels has different measurements which I’ve put in meters but you can do in steps or whatever, just make it consistent.
Level 1 – 15m Long x 1.5m Wide
Level 2 – 20m Long x 1.5m Wide
Level 3 – 10m Long x 1m Wide
Level 4 – 15m Long x 1m Wide
Level 5 – 20m Long x 1m Wide
Initially you might want to set up multiple lanes for the lower levels until players find their edge but you can always add cones to the lower levels quick enough without losing much time.
The challenge to meet before moving up levels is:
Level 1 x 16/20
Level 2 x 14/20
Level 3 x 16/20
Level 4 x 14/20
Level 5 x see what you can do!
DEFENSE – ZONE PRESS UP
MIDFEILD – MOVING THROUGH CONGESTION
As I mentioned at the end of the video, you could make the space bigger and run a 2v2 or so through there with the stationary players as well but you’d need to add a scoring element where making a tackle, interception or pushing the offense outside of the cones is good for more points then the offense getting the ball out of the exit gate to stop them simply guarding the gate because in a game of football you’ll always press the player with the ball.
BACKS – WIDE DRILL
To start out simply run this without any opposition to give players a chance to work together on their ball movement and spread running patterns, telling players that they cannot run the same pattern twice in a row.
Then you can add defenders like this:
1 – Add a defender who can choose to run with options 1 and 3 and the kicker needs to identify the fre option and hit them up.
2 – Switch that defender to now choose to run with options 2 or 3.
3 – Add 2 defenders to go with whoever they want to make it a 4v2.
4 – Add a 3rd defender to make it a 4v3
5 – Add a 4th defender to make it a 4v4 but a defender must man the mark for player 1
To layer again you can simply havea bunch of defenders and send out different numbers of them into each set so the offense must recognise what number advantage/disadvantage they have and play accordingly.
FORWARDS – RUNNING PATTERNS
When we think of forward running patterns we usually think of leading patterns inside 50 but with transition offesne being generated from further away from goal then the good old days, running patterns to get the ball to your half of the ground, then for an inside 50 entry and then a potential goal scoring options all require different running patterns and kicking variations so this is an attempt to cover a few of these.
GAME – FULL GROUND SMALL SIDED TEAMS
Create teams of 8 – 10 should do the trick here who have 1 ball each but players are divided into positions they usually play.
The coach will simply give each team a scenario or pattern to follow from 1 end to the next but players canlt perform the same action 2 sets in a row.
Say 1 team has the patterm of a wide switch kick out of the defensive half.
If 1 of your backline players receives a wide switch kick in set 1 (correct) then they cannot just plonk themselves wide and get the same kick again, they must find another way to acheive the same goal a different way (but staying with their pattern/theme) or in a different part of the ground.
Scenarios or patterns you might look at using include:
You could also include tactical/formation aspects like start up high in a press and backs need to up past half way before the ball can go past the goal line etc.
The possibilities are endless.
Have 1 team start from 1 end and the other from the opposite end so there is a bit of controlled chaos and congestion.
To go further with this the opposite team players could also be defenders until their own ball comes into their area.
PART 7
Every Tuesday at the end of training we go through some vision from the previous week’s game senior game on things we did good and things we didn’t do so well and this clip was showed: https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/video-1620259859.mp4 For memory this was a “bad” one as sometimes we tend to ignore a simple/immediate option and continue...
When I originally moved to this membership based site my initial thought was to develop content for coaches, but moreso football clubs in general to purchase and then have on hand for all coaches at their clubs to use as required.
I don’t just want a micro-sector of football coaches to have access to this information, I want everyone in football to have access to this information and help to continuously drive the improvement of local football clubs all over Australia.
So I have finally finished up putting together the Footy Club Bundle.
I really wanted this available more towards the start of the year but life really got in the way and I just couldn’t put the time into it so I let it sit for a while and moved to other things, but we’re here now.
Like I said this has been put together with the aim of football clubs purchasing the program but of course if you’re an individual coach or player, by all means purchase the bundle and go silly but if clubs are going to use this, and they should, then they should make the purchase and as I said, make it available for all their coaches.
The Footy Club Bundle consists of 6 different programs that can beused on pretty much any age group you have at your football club, and you’re only limited by your own ability to deliver them.
They are:
4 WEEKS TRAINING – https://aussierulestraining.com/2021/05/03/4-weeks-training/?yp_rand=925132
GAME MODEL DEVELOPMENT – https://aussierulestraining.com/2021/04/21/game-model-development-introduction/
FOOTY FOCUS – https://aussierulestraining.com/2021/04/21/footy-focus-introduction/
DECISION MAKING PROCESS – https://aussierulestraining.com/2021/04/28/the-decision-making-process-stage-1-x-tactic/
BE ACTIVATED – https://aussierulestraining.com/2020/04/02/footy-secrets-4-be-activated/
SPEED DEVELOPMENT – https://aussierulestraining.com/2020/03/23/footy-secret-1-speed-development/
ENERGY SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT – https://aussierulestraining.com/2020/01/01/aerobic-threshold-training-run-with-a-purpose/
All programs have planty of videos and visuals so you’ll know exactly what to do but if anyone needs any extra information for any of it, feel free to contact me directly.
This is the starting point of the footy club bundle and I might add to it over time so once you’re into the program then you’ll receive all new additions that go into it with no extra cost.
As always I’m always after feedback so if you have any, or idea’s of other programs most football clubs could really benefit from, then let me know and I’ll take a look at it.