As I was at the game watching Saturday and watching as a fan, I forced myself to “coach” watch a replay of the first half yesterday and then so 2 – 3 times! From that I took some stats and video and being essentially hogtied to the couch all day yesterday after a big weekend,...
Month: September 2024
AFLW CONDENSED FIXTURE GAME ANALYSIS PART 5 – GEELONG v HAWTHORN
Without the wife’s IPad (they shipped themselves off to nanny’s for the weekend), I’m analysing games the old school way but nothing if not adaptable. This focuses on last nights game between the Cats and the Hawks, especially the Hawks a few things they do in the defensive and forward halves. KICK OUT TACTIC Most...
AFLW CONDENSED FIXTURE GAME ANALYSIS PART 4
I won’t have the wife’s IPad until Monday night so good luck to me keeping up with this + the men’s Grand Final Saturday (which I’m going to!) but we’ll keep rolling as we look at Richmond/Port Adelaide and Carlton/North Melbourne over 2 video below, specifically: Port not using their free player to create handball...
AFLW CONDENSED FIXTURE GAME ANALYSIS PART 3
The AFLW Festival of Football continues and we’re up to part 3 of the game analysis from these games where today we look at: Sydney creating space to get “first down” Sydney not using their numbers around the ball Sydney defensive mechanism at center bounce clearance Bulldogs not using their extra player Pies not being...
ALFW CONDENSED FIXTURE GAME ANALYSIS PART 2
This condensed fixture is making post on a weekend and Youtube being a pest meaning I had to post these in tinier vids than normal but the coaching goodness is still there! Today we have 11 clips in 12mins looking at: Port Adelaide’s very predictable and 1-dimensional kick outs x 2 Port not using their...
ALFW CONDENSED FIXTURE GAME ANALYSIS
There’s now way I can keep track of the rounds during this time so condensed fixture it is! The game are coming thick and fast and so will the game analysis, being putting on the speed dial. So in saying that here are 11 clips in 11mins looking at: Collingwood center bounce clearance West Coast...
AFLW ROUNDS 2/3 GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS
In this post we have 3 game/training scenario’s from rounds 2 and 3 of AFLW. GAME/TRAINING SCENARIO #1 – LANE RUNNING Lane running is a by-product of 666 Connection which serves to connect the team across a large area of the ground while in possession during moderate to fast play. It provides the ball carrier...
AFLW ROUND 3 GAME ANALYSIS PART 2/2
In part 2 of the game analysis from AFLW round 3 we look at: North Melbourne creating and utilising the outnumber advantage GWS going inside 50 on fast play Gold Coast not getting length on fast play...
AFLW ROUND 3 GAME ANALYSIS PART 1/2
We’re already essentially a quarter of the way through the regular season of AFLW (ridiculous I know after just 3 rounds) and we’re looking at another ladder logjam like we had in the men’s comp this season with 7 teams on 8pts, 1 on 6 and another 5 on 4, taking up places 4 –...
GWS HANDBALL SLINGSHOT TRAINING ACTIVITY
We’ve all seen GWS and how they get their extremely-speedy small forwards up the ground then slingshot back with leg speed and handball before kicking deep to Jesse Hogan with the most assured hands in the league. This isn’t a complicated tactic by any stretch and you don’t really necessarily need the leg speed to...