Part 2 comes in 2 small videos where we look at: Collingwood Going Corridor Aggressively Geelong Half Forward Transition Collingwood Talls Collingwood Numbers Ridiculous Bailey Smith Run VIDEO #1 VIDEO #2...
An absolute ball-burster of a game between the Pies and Cats Saturday night with a remarkable turnaround by Geelong mid-way through ther 3rd quarter. I’ve compiled 11 clips from this game so this is part 1 of 2 of this game analysis where we look at: Collingwood Lay Off Defense Collingwood Center Bounce Clearance Geelong’s...
In part 7 from this knowledge-rich study, we go back and look at stage 2 in ridiculous detail so strap in and put your brain on! Stage 2 consists of action selection/execution + action/selection between response options with both being based on the assessment of the current situation from stage 1 where the player must...
This week we have clips from a bunch of games over the weekend where we look at: Mason Wood Wing Run Poor North Melbourne D50 Defense Bont Draw and Dish Handball Rhylee West F50 Leading Patterns Sydney Handover and Bice Press Sydney Center Bounce Clearance Gold Coast Kick Out Sydney Kick Out...
Finally back to some good ole game analysis after catching up on this yesterday/today. Pies look to be back for season 2025 but in a different way with the best defense and more ball movement along the boundary then in their premiership year in 2023 but as effective. Today we look at: Brisbane not using...
We had the internet connected at the new house for a second or 2 before it cut back out so again I’ve only sparingly watched any footy on TV (went to 2 games live though!) so no game analysis until next week unless I can catch up on some games during the week so it’s...
As per rental life, I moved house once again last week + don’t have internet until tomorrow or the next day so here’s 2 posts in 1 on the Cognition in Elite Footballers study. Today we look at pattern recognition and anticipation. Pattern Recognition is central for the development of expertise Skilled players show no...
I’m not a major podcast listener but I had this on my agenda to get to at some stage and doing the lawns the last 2 days was the perfect opportunity to do so. Being a very older player (46) still playing senior/reserve grade football every Saturday and a senior coach for a women’s team...
In my opinion the biggest gap in local/amateur football by far is the ability to create, identify and utilise outnumber advantages. We’re not trained to identify/utilise them so of course we don’t so this in obviously a coaching issue, not a player issue. Shameless plug alert – I have a entire 20 page chapter on...
So far we’ve covered the basics of stage 1, 2 and 3 in regards to cognition on footballers and now we double, even triple, down on detail so the future posts in this series have the potential to be quite long! Stage 1 – Assessment of the Current Play Situation Visual Orientation and Attention Visual...