A lot of coaches are still stuck in the traditional methods of running training which means a lot of cone-to-cone stuff which is a massive misrepresentation of what the demands of a game are but it’s always a case of teaching how you were taught. I’m here to right that and have been for some...
For season 2025, I”ll be taking the reigns of Head Coach for the Senior Women at Reservoir Football Club, a team being re-booted after falling away during Covid, as many teams did. Avid reader’s of this blog are well aware of the game analysis I do for each and every round of AFLW that looks...
Both of my Grand Finals predicted teams made it through over the weekend in similar ways but in very different games. North Melbourne put the foot down from the very onset with 4 goals in a blink of an eye where the Lions had to wait until the 3rd quarter before they were able to...
The last chapter covers a variety of micro game moments that didn’t really fit a chapter of their own but are still critical in attending to the details of coaching modern football. The micro game moments covered are: Team Pressure Inside Forward 50 Kick Full Leads Stay in the Play Space Manipulation Adapatability This follows...
If you’ve watched any of my game analysis videos then you’ll know that I love a ruck that is proactive in becoming involved in more interactions then stoppages. Having another bog body around the ground is always handy and if you opposition ruck is happy playing the traditional ruck role as described above, then it’s...
A close one and a not-so-close one in week 2, with Port Adelaide coming back from the highest 3/4 time margin in AFLW history of 22pts to get the win and go through to the prelim. Unfortunately it doesn’t get easier for them going up against unbeaten North Melbourne but they’ve already exceeded expectations by...
The best way to play fast footy is not to get it and simply kick it forward at all costs, it’s to get overlap. The ability for individual players, and teams, to create this overlap means the ball is constantly in motion and the opposition will not be able to cover all of your offensive...
Moving the ball through corridor is the the quickest way to goal but it also comes with the most risk. Teams often set up defensively to cut off the corridor but it’s all about how attacking you want to be. Teams like Sydney and Collingwood attack the corridor with reckless-abandon and never shy away from...
Playing with outnumber advantages is the foundational element of any team sport, including Aussie Rules. We have a huge emphasise on creating free players in open space which is bloody hard with 36 players on the ground, but there is very little training to create outnumber advantages, have the team collectively identify them and then...
The following stats come from this post. Port Adelaide topped the scoring from kick outs in 2024 at 6.3pts per game with a single game high of 26pts. Geelong topped scoring from their defensive 50 at 20.1pts per game with GWS getting the single game high of 50pts. Geelong also topped scoring from defensive center...