Category: Training/Coaching Articles

Test and Enhance Your Knowledge of the Game Get Help with Identifying Patterns of Play Learn at the Edges of your Current Ability to Stretch, but not Overwhelm Expand Your Search and Exploration Area No Right or Wrong Answers Suitable for Coaches and Players of All Levels Welcome to the Aussie Rules Training Game Intelligence...

In part 8 of this monster study, we stay in stage 2 and look at the part executive functions play in elite footballers. Executive functions is where action selection is non-conscious where its outcome can be influenced by conscious intentions and other cognitive control processes adding flexibility to an already automatically driven behavior which is...

The Pies are absolutely rolling right now and seem to have a leg out in front of everyone else v the Hawks struggling to reclaim their electric form from the 2nd half of last season. The Pies organisation was once again on show Friday night, strangling any ball movement tendencies the Hawks wanted to utilise...

In part 2 of this game analysis we look at: The Holding/Dropping the Ball Interpretation Collingwood Lanes/Corridor x 2 Collingwood Going All-In on Defense A Ruckman-Off...

For the second year in a row there was a 50-something point turnaround in the North Melbourne/Collingwood Marvel Stadium game. The Pies are super-organised and their cohesion is league-best without having to go into too much slow-to-medium tempo play to do so. In part 1 of this game analysis we look at: Collingwood Forward Half...

In part 2 it’s all Collingwood v Adelaide where we look at: Rankine Scouting Collingwood Corridor Collingwood Numbers Sidebottom Wing Run Adelaide Corridor...

Round 11 posed some intriguing questions such as have the Suns really arrived? Can the Swans maintain enough to get their players back then make a run? What the hell is going on at the GWS? Plus the Dogs are a scary proposition with who they still have to come back, Brisbane’s patchy form finally...

Part 2 of the Sydney debacle v Essendon from the weekend and have a look at yesterday’s post for plenty of stats backing that up! Today we look at: Sydney Chasing from Being Too Far Behind Forward Stoppage Craft McInerney Wing Run Defenders Aren’t Forwards!...

Sydney went full debacle over the weekend against weekend with some of the worst stats you’ll find from any team in any game: Down by 39pts mid 2nd quarter Lost enter bounce clearance 10 – 5 but was 10-2 at 1 stage although Essendon have been excellent in that area in 2025 Gave away 7...

This is part 2/2 (part 1 here) and the final 4 episodes of Pendlebury: Beyond 400 from Mark Howard and The Howey Games podcast. EPISODE 5 – INJURY This episode has a huge focus on all his career injuries and surgeries he’s had throughout his career – broken/surgery on both legs twice with metal plates...