Brisbane are a bloody well-oiled unit and now they’ve shown a form of resilience and grit that they’ve never really had to before, after losing to the Saints in Melbourne and then beating the Demons comfortably in the last round of the season, to beating ladder leaders Adelaide on their home deck in the first...
Month: November 2023
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – SAINTS NOT USING OVERLAP RUN, BLUES D50 ‘MARE, TIGERS FORWARD LINE
We’ve got 4 last clips to finish off round 10, the final round of the season 2023. We look at: St Kilda’s Grace Kelly using great overlap run and even though theĀ Saints to utilise it, they are still able to transition the ball from defensive 50 to deep forward 50, mark and goal. If...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – THE BEST DEFENSIVE PLAY OF THE SEASON?
I’ve posted numerous clips of players/teams pressing in defensively from the front of the ball carrier/receiver, something Collingwood used to great effect to win the men’s premiership this past season. In AFLW, Geelong probably do more of it than any other team ans Sydney have introduced it a little bit this season as well but...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – WESTERN BULLDOGS v NORTH MELBOURNE
Looking at this game about a month ago and when North were flying and the Dogs were win less it looked like a forfeit would have been a better result, and then with the Dogs getting their first win last week against the Eagles, it’s like they got their win and they’ll drop back to...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – GOLD COAST v ESSENDON
With a finals spot on the line and missing their best player in Rowbottom, the Suns got it done against Essendon on Friday night, setting up an elimination finals against my Sydney Swans this coming Saturday night. I wasn’t sure if they could replace what Rowbottom does and that Maddy Prespakis would take over in...
IT’S TIME FOR 18-A-SIDE IN AFLW
Whenever I have conversations around AFLW it usually gets to the question of “how can we increase scoring?”, and my answer is always, and Sydney coach Scott Gowans agrees, is to increase player numbers to 18-a-side. I’m not a million $ sure this would even improve scoring but it definitely would improve the ability to...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: THE REST OF ROUND 9
I noted a lot more clips then usual this weekend so we finish off with a 22min video this week but full of great coaching tidbits. First we look at Carlton employing a tagger for Maddy Prespakis which didn’t work for a variety of reasons, as this clip shows. We also look at Carlton during...
THE CULTURE AT MELBOURNE FC
Earlier this week an interview went up on SEN ran by Garry Lyon and Sam Edmund with Melbourne FC coach Simon Goodwin and CEO Gary Pert and here are my notes and takeaways from it. You’ve probably read all the headlines about it but I suggest taking 43mins to listen to entire piece so you...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS – CREATING THE OUTNUMBER ADVANTAGE OFF THE LINE
This a scenario that plays out every single game at some point in AFLW, mainly because of there only being 16 players and a lot of transition, offensively and defensively, is simply running towards or back to goal to fill the space. It’ll start with defenders being closer to the opposite goal usually getting back...