Earlier this week I wrote about how I go about analysing games and the process around that and once you’ve got data, then you can really start pinpointing specific things to address within your training sessions. I also listed a lot of the common scenarios that I noticed play out in almost every game of...
AFLW kicks off this weekend and as usual I’m super-pumped as more footy is always a positive, especially when the AFLW season runs past the AFLM season. I watched every game of every season so far and have analysed games to some degree for all of those 7 seasons as well. In the last 2...
These notes come from a study I read a week or 2 ago about the use of play form activities during practice, looking at the why, how and benefits of doing so. Precisely simulates the properties of competition games in customised settings (contexts) designed to provide many opportunities for the emergence of focused actions/sequences of...
I’ve highlighted this a few times this season but this is maybe the best example of it that’s been captured so far. There are training activities that Collingwood use to train this coming forward action that you can find in both the Pre and In-season Collingwood Training Activities manuals that you can find out more...
I found this in my files from a couple of years ago which is an idea around training that is game simulated. It’s definitely not something you’d do early in your pre-season but only after players have had the chance to get to know the game model and also have a fair idea of what...
After a slow start, Collingwood overpowered Geelong Friday night to lock in top spot for season 2023. Here are 3 clips I posted on Twitter during the game but can now expand upon them further then 140 characters. #1 – JAMIE ELLIOTT PAUSE Smart move from Elliott – if he plays onthen the Gee chaser...
Earlier in the week I posted about the theory behind mastery and what behaviors you should be focused on to achieve it and then I posted the first 9 videos showing mastery, or alack of it, in game situations. Here’s the other 9. #10 – Here we see the exact opposite of #9 from Melbourne...
Coming off the back of Kingy talking about Darcy Moore and positional mastery on First Crack Sunday night, earlier this week I posted the theory behind mastery and some of the behaviors behind it. Today we look at mastery, or a lack thereof, in game situations with these 9 video clips, with the other 9...
During my weekly watch of Fox Footy’s Last Crack on a Sunday night at the completion of each round, Kingy had this to say about Darcy Moore and his missed kicks out of defensive 50 over the last couple of weeks: “…he’s the interceptor, the rebounder – give it to the point guards…he doesn’t need...
I read this study this past week and the results should really give coaches food for thought in designing their practice sessions and plenty of actionable conclusions as well. It looked at the passing actions during 4v4 games of Soccer on a 30x20m pitch featuring junior players of various ages with the 3 different scoring...