Category: Training/Coaching Articles

These notes come an article by Mark O’Sullivan, a UEFA Coach and researcher from Sweden and is definitely worth a follow, looking at Ecological Football. Ecological football refers to knowing not just more about football but to know better Players should be active agents in their learning and not just mere receivers of knowledge Agency...

The Brisbane Lions have been the best ball movement team in the AFL for years now with a focus on complete control with ball in hand, backed up by once again leading the league with an average of 104.4 marks per game in 2025. But let’s go back a few steps… Ex-West Coast coach Adam...

I have just completed a 2nd volume for Center Bounce Clearance and an 18th chapter in the Coaching Modern Football series that is now available from the register page. We start out looking at organising your set up by taking into account things like: How To Set Up What Are We Trying to Achieve? In...

I haven’t posted a study for a while but I’m still reading them all the time and this one looks at how soccer teams use the ground space at various times of the game and how it then contributes their success. Studies usually analyse teams’ convex hull which gives the measure for the overall spread...

There’s not too much left to say really but I did attend 5 or 6 North Melbourne AFLW training sessions so I do have a small database of the training activities they use so I might package it all up at some point but I have been using their warm up with my senior women’s...

Season 10 is done and dusted and it was a whitewash really with the dominance of North Melbourne. The Roos went 12-0 with a % of 321.5 in the regular season and then backed that up in the finals going 3-0 with a % of 262. Dare we add that they were missing 2 of...

Before the commencement of the 2o25 AFL season, a bunch of Twitter football stats accounts posted reviews of each team based-on the season previous which I did link to in this particular post back in February. After the shit show that was AFL-media in 2025 and the just-passed trade period, if it’s real game analysis...

The 2 best teams have made the AFLW Grand Final and the 3rd meeting of these 3 in the GF in a row! Melbourne gave North plenty to think about in their game, with the fast start actually producing some slight kinks in the Roos armour – most notably being a bit shaky when faced...

Before the commencement of the 2o25 AFL season, a bunch of Twitter football stats accounts posted reviews of each team based-on the season previous which I did link to in this particular post back in February. After the shit show that was AFL-media in 2025 and the just-passed trade period, if it’s real game analysis...

As I start off in the video, I tipped the Blues to win but not quite like that but the Hawks almost seemed like a bottom 8 team just waiting for the season to end except they won 12 games and were in a preliminary final. The Blues on the other hand are manufacturing momentum...