2 – 3 times a year I come across a study that’s about 25 pages long that sucks me in and I have to read it word-for-word while I’m typing out notes from it which than cuts it down to about 10 pages and this study did just that (29 into 14 pages to be...
Here’s the 2nd part of my game analysis for round 1 where we look at: Collingwood hunting Port’s ball carrier Collingwood’s extra-aggressive kick out tactic Hawthorns fast v Essendon’s turtle-like transition Hawthorn’s kick out tactic again – wake up other teams! GWS’s attempt at similar kick out tactic...
Some up and down results from our first full round of football this weekend from the Tigers major upset on Thursday night all the way to the usual hot Gold Coast start before falling away late-season and plenty in between. My Swans are struggling a bit so far on wins and losses (o-2!) but could...
We’re all about to start practice games against actual opposition (36 degrees at Digger’s Rest will be hell on earth for this 46 year old!) where as coaches we’ll be seeing if what we’ve tried to implement with our players over the pre-season, has carried over to games and to what extent. Form these games...
It’s never as good as it seems (GWS and Callaghan), and it’s never as bad as it seems (Collingwood, listless). Let’s hope for at least for 1 of these teams that is the case as it’s a trench-like drop off if it is! In this 6min, 4 clip analysis we look at: Nathan Buckley talking...
In what has turned out to be the last Saturday without any sort of footy for 9 months and a very slow day at that,here’s my game analysis clips from last night’s game while I have ample time to put it together and post it. Impressive from the Hawks to win in a different way...
I haven’t posted one of these for ages so just remember that these training activities simply have a brief description and that’s it – no images, diagrams and pictures to accompany them. Let’s get to activities 122 – 131. #122 -PASSING CIRCLE You’ve got 3 colored teams of 3 with 1 from each team in...
These 2 terms are never really mentioned in AFL conversations, not with this specific wording anyway, but in Soccer there are constant Twitter threads on 1 or the other or the comparison of both approaches. That’s not to say they aren’t used in AFL, they most definitely are, we just don’t use the same jargon....
In week 2 of the pre-season games we look at: Gold Coast stoppage formation on secondary center ball ups Sydney with multiple layers of pressing forward defense Brisbane wing run Collingwood up to their old tricks at center bounce clearance Lukosius kick = Perfection Port Adelaide using handball to draw defenders in then breaking them...
We’re 15 training sessions for deep for pre-season 2025 so here’s a 5th edition of what I’ve ran with my senior women’s team so far. After working a lot on individual action capabilities we’re now starting to get a little more structure-focused and developing more off and away from the ball actions in the game....