Often coaches will try and develop a lot of different training activities for variety sakes but with change often comes a loss of focus on the game day principles you’re trying to instill in your players. This also increases prep time and extra training time for players to adjust to the new activity before they...
I’m continuing in my role as Senior Women’s Head Coach for season 2026 and we had 7 sessions before breaking for Christmas with 1 focus and that being ball movement. In our first season out of a 4-year recess, and my first year at the club, we had a lot of players new to football...
Here’s another whiteboard edition which are still streamlined but require a visual to get started, with activities #212 – #221 consisting of a simple image with a diagram and a quick explanation. #212 – 3v3+2 #213 – WIDE + RUN FROM BEHIND #214 – 2 PLAYS #215 – 3 GOALS WINS #216 – 5v5...
These notes come an article by Mark O’Sullivan, a UEFA Coach and researcher from Sweden and is definitely worth a follow, looking at Ecological Football. Ecological football refers to knowing not just more about football but to know better Players should be active agents in their learning and not just mere receivers of knowledge Agency...
The Brisbane Lions have been the best ball movement team in the AFL for years now with a focus on complete control with ball in hand, backed up by once again leading the league with an average of 104.4 marks per game in 2025. But let’s go back a few steps… Ex-West Coast coach Adam...
You’ve come up with a great game model but then the questions announce themselves? How will you teach it? How will the players learn it? How will the players retain the concept? What about the mixed ability of the playing group? How can we build it robust enough to stand up in the chaos of...
A new edition of this covering training activities #192 – #211 and as usual there’s only a quick explanation, no diagrams or images. #192 – OUTNUMBER ADVANTAGE TO OUTNUMBER DISADVANTAGE Start with 11v10 our defensive half but the opposition has a locked +1 in their defensive half #193 – TACKLING SEQUENCE 2 players...
I have just completed a 2nd volume for Center Bounce Clearance and an 18th chapter in the Coaching Modern Football series that is now available from the register page. We start out looking at organising your set up by taking into account things like: How To Set Up What Are We Trying to Achieve? In...
I haven’t posted a study for a while but I’m still reading them all the time and this one looks at how soccer teams use the ground space at various times of the game and how it then contributes their success. Studies usually analyse teams’ convex hull which gives the measure for the overall spread...
There’s not too much left to say really but I did attend 5 or 6 North Melbourne AFLW training sessions so I do have a small database of the training activities they use so I might package it all up at some point but I have been using their warm up with my senior women’s...