Month: February 2024

I’ve got 100’s of pages of research I’ve compiled over about 20 years on training and coaching just sitting there, with the intention of being used as content but rarely does. As I’m in the middle of packing and then moving house next week, this is the perfect opportunity to utilise some of it. This...

Previous Post – Our Intercept Mark Defensive 50 New Post – Our Kick Out Because a kick out is a closed play action and about the only time where time isn’t a factor besides set shot goal kicking, it’s 1 of the most controllable moments of the game. Most teams will defend a kick out...

Footy’s back and about time as my brothers fill the family chat with every cricket game happening on earth when footy isn’t on and it’s going on right now! Collingwood had their first hit out against opposition today so I tuned in to see what they kept from last year and anything new I could...

I’ve posted about mastery v ego before so in a nutshell it’s: Mastery – locating, finding and completing a pass to the best, usually most open and easy target available. Ego – ignoring the most open and easy target to attempt a pass with a low chance of being completed and that puts our team...

Previous Post – Center Bounce Clearance Win New Post – Our Intercept Mark Defensive 50 The player movements/formations that will allow this to occur frequently will be evident in future posts as we reach the end of the loop which starts this new loop (that made sense didn’t it?), but of course it helps immensely...

These notes come from this Gaelic football Twitter site, that looks at what we’re actually all aiming for during and from training – learning. There’s so much focus on the “doing” of training but that’s mainly because that’s what coaches know – they know what they want to see and design their activities for that...

Previous Post – Center Bounce Clearance Loss New Post – Center Bounce Clearance Win Again the starting formation is up to you and is hugely dependent on if you have a dominant tap ruck or not which can be out of your control, but what happens after that is still very controllable so here’s what...