This small sided game is one you would use to focus a on and encourage the use of width with your ball movement. If you’ve read my Sydney Swans game style content as well as the Collingwood ball movement post from yesterday, using width for both player and ball movement is the secret to opening...
For the last week we’ve looking at trying to get coaches of all levels to start shifting away from traditional training methods of unopposed cone to cone drills that train what you want to happen, but not what does actually happen, in games. This lack of perception-action coupling provides zero decision making from your players...
GAME MOMENT – Open Play Defensive 50 Rebound PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – Open Play Opposition Forward 50 Entry GROUND LOCATION – Opposition Back Pocket GAME VIDEO – TRAINING SCENARIO VIDEO –...
GAME MOMENT – North Melbourne Open Play Forward 50 Entry PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – Open Play Transition Offense GROUND LOCATION – North Melbourne Forward 50m Line GAME VIDEO – TRAINING SCENARIO VIDEO –...
GAME MOMENT – West Coast Free Kick Center Square Ball Up PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – Center Square Ball Up GROUND LOCATION – Center Circle GAME VIDEO (start of video) – TRAINING SCENARIO VIDEO –...
GAME MOMENT – Geelong Kick Out PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – West Coast Behind GROUND LOCATION – Opposition Goal Square GAME VIDEO – TRAINING SCENARIO VIDEO –...
I’m sure you all noticed film review post after film review post during the 2022 AFLW season, resulting in over 800 individual clips from the 100 videos taken from each of the 68 games from round 1 to the Grand Final. With all this film reviewing resulting in a form of data collection, once you...
Back in October I posted my first crack at developing a slow play training drill called Patience but I ran this version with youth footballers this week and I think it works better because of the slight alteration. Most players of all ages are far too eager to simply play on without knowing who and...
We train to get better at games except that we rarely use games in training, opting for cone to cone drills and maybe the odd 4v1 clearance drill which is not as game representative as you probably think it is. We know that footy is just bloody darn demanding and it’s hard to play actual...
Football, and all team sports for that matter is a battle of time and space superiority with each an every game action based on where you can get to, how you can get there, how fast you can get there an once there, how effective can you be. This is happening not just for the...