Author: swans05

The Hawks are mirroring their men’s team for 2025, winning but not convincing anyone and the Dogs are having a crack and making the ground small so teams can’t break them on the outside (4th for contested possessions), hence the 10-14 scoreline from this one. Freo have pulled extraordinary by allowing 100pts 2 weeks in...

The Eagles are overflowing with young talent and with Daisy Pearce at the helm, they aren’t that far away with Ella Roberts quickly rising into a top 5 player in the league. The Saints are inconsistent like always by doubling Adelaide’s score for a win in round 1, having their own score 5’ed (that’s a...

Over the weekend I took a look at the full draw for AFLW 2025 and it’s grim. With only 12 games but 18 teams, the draw runs over a 2 – 3yr life span for everyone to play once and most of them twice in that time but that needs to stop as quick as...

To celebrate finals footy all over the country in local leagues and the AFL, for the entire month of September I will be holding a sale on all chapters of the Coaching Modern Football series. If you haven’t made finals then you’ll already be looking to 2026 and if you did make them, then you’;ll...

Under Daisy Pearce, the Eagles have again started the season strongly with some dodgy umpiring decisions going a long way to deciding this resulting in 2 of Essendon’s goals. There’s also a clip from the Richmond/Western Bulldogs game and 1 from the Adelaide/Geelong game, with Richmond/Geelong both winless after 2 rounds going up against Essendon...

I can’t see North Melbourne not winning the whole thing again and they backed me up against a Port Adelaide team who, although got a roll at the right time last year, continue to double down on this long kick, low possession game which can work on it’s day but when it doesn’t pan out,...

We’re already seeing the gap between the top and bottom sides in AFLW and on top of that there’s the disparity in the draw from 12 games for 18 teams so anytime there’s a game between teams around each other. it’s usually a very close affair, which we saw a bit of this weeekend. I...

I read about the anchors and floaters system a couple of years ago from a soccer coach on Twitter and it’s a stuck with me ever since as it’s a very simplified way of explaining inner and outer positioning in team sports, of which Aussie Rules is of course included. This system provides off-ball players...

A few years ago I read that the best decisions are made from the best positions and not a truer thing has been said in relation to invasion sports, such as Aussie Rules Football. A lot of time is put into making things happen in different parts of the ground but without full team cohesion...

With a busy weekend and too much footy to watch, l’ve just finished watching what I wanted to watch and have some left over clips to share from both men’s and women’s games this past weekend. In the men’s we look at: A picture perfect center bounce clearance from Gold Coast Sydney with a new...