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SYDNEY SWANS TRANSITION OFFENSE AT LOCAL/AMATEUR LEVEL PART 1

by swans05, posted in Sydney Swans Game Style, Training/Coaching Articles

Last week I did a monster 4-part analysis on my Sydney Swans and their complete destruction of the West Coast Eagles, with a close look at their ball and player movement during transition offense. I’m back at my old club in a playing role after my coaching gig fell through but I did take a...

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SYDNEY SWANS ANALYSIS v WEST COAST EAGLES PART 4

by swans05, posted in Sydney Swans Game Style

WING WIDTH 1 Gulden will be an absolute gun and these next few videos will show you why as he already has the skills with his elite kicking and combined with exceptional positioning for a first year player, he has been able to make an immediate impact. The ability to keep your width is a...

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SYDNEY SWANS ANALYSIS v WEST COAST EAGLES PART 3

by swans05, posted in Sydney Swans Game Style

SPREADING THEIR TEAM DEFENSE A lot of teams do this is this particluar style where the initial ball carrier chip kicks from the middle of the ground to a lateral option who’s not quite on the boundary and then the kicker runs diagonally straight to the boundary line. This can provide 2 potential options depending...

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SYDNEY SWANS ANALYSIS v WEST COAST EAGLES PART 2

by swans05, posted in Sydney Swans Game Style

LATERAL KICK TO OPTION FROM BEHIND This is very similar to the handball option from behind in the previous post and is used a lot by Sydney, with 9 handballs and 7 kicks like this in last week’s game alone – that’s 15 extra play-on opportunities that’s sure to unsettle any defense by not giving...

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SYDNEY SWANS ANALYSIS v WEST COAST EAGLES

by swans05, posted in Sydney Swans Game Style

As a long time Swans fan since the mid-80’s I was reasonably happy after yesterday’s demolition of the West Coast Eagles so after watching yesterday’s game I thought I’d take a closer look at some things from the game. I actually have 2 pages of pointers I collected and I’ll give you 12 of them...

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21 GAMEDAY COACHING TIPS YOU CAN USE TOMORROW – DAVID SHARKEY

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

These points come from an article from David Sharkey, an English teacher and Rugby coach from the UK, but is relevant to coaching for any sport. At the local level a lot of coaches spend so much time making player changes on their coaching boards they sometimes fail to pay attention to other aspects of...

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HALF GROUND + MID BOX GAME

by swans05, posted in 44 TRAINING ACTIVITIES, Training Drills

This is just a little twist on a basic half ground game with 2 even teams. Usually it works like basketball and bring the ball out of defense to the middle of the ground then you play transition offense to get it back into the forward 50 and score. Nothing extra ground breaking for this...

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THE INNER GAME JOURNAL – STEFAN MAUK

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

I’ve been posting a fair bit on the psychological aspect of performance lately and 1 thing I say a lot is that don’t just think thoughts, but write them down to make them “real”. I can almost guarantee that by writing it down, which obviously takes way longer to do then to simply think it,...

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SKILL DEVELOPMENT – DAN ABRAHAMS

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

Skill development at the top of all sport pyramids and footy is no different. The ability to attain, stabillise, replicate and then add variability to those foundation skills is what seperates us from the elites. A lot of local/amateur players have endurance, speed and strength but they often alck the skill required to compete consistently...

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MULTI-KICK DRILL

by swans05, posted in Training Drills

What we have here is a drill that includes 4 specific scenario kicks used a lot during a game so is very representative of what happens on a Saturday. It combines 4 different scenarios into the single activity so players need to perform different kicks within the same drill but specific kicks that are required...

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