Category: Training/Coaching Articles

Finishing off the team-by-team for round 9: Suns – recording their highest possession total for the season (327) and highest marks total (75) yet were -8 in clearance but they just starved Melbourne of the ball (+75 disposals, +64 uncontested possession, +7% time in possession and +33 in marks) Demons – +1 for inside 50’s...

The Saints broke through for their 1st win of the season and a rare come from behind win at that, Geelong offense is still off the charts and the Suns beat an undermanned Dees. Dogs – unpeeled another layer of development with a 2nd quarter defensive effort that fuelled a 4.2 to 0.1 2nd quarter...

Essendon played the Bulldogs Friday night. Quarter 1 showed some positive offensive play but poor conversion (9-4 inside 50 advantage for 1.4) and even poorer defense (2.1 against) kept the Dogs in it. There Bombers spent about 70% of the quarter in their forward half (73.6% at the 15min mark) but their forward half disposal...

Finishing off this round: Lions – the dominance is officially over for Brisbane and Adeliade after being the best teams since the inception of AFLW but be happy it happened. The group needs reinvigorating, will bring in a new coach and then I wonder what alterations they can make to that list to bounce in...

No real earth-shattering results from the weekend and the top 8 teams look set pretty much where my ladder predictor has the Hawks in for Freo but both teams are highly inconsistent so that could go either way and the inequity’s of the draw is probably the most deciding factor. Blues – were far cleaner...

Finishing up round 7. Demons – looked to be the new number 1 but that only lasted 7 days Kangaroos – back in top spot where they belong and are now a whopping 55% ahead of top of the ladder with no genuine contenders ahead Magpies – took away all the time the Giants need...

A bunch of 60/40 games but no real surprises from the results this week except maybe the number that North Melbourne on the Dees as well as what Geelong did Hawthorn. Cats – have the highest offense in the league on 503 total points, 47 in front of 2nd placed Melbourne, are averaging 79pts /game...

Taking a different angle for this post where I’ll focus exclusively on center bounce clearance tactics used by Geelong in their game v Hawthorn and then look at Port Adeliade v Western Bulldogs. Looking at Geelong first they have Georgie Prespakis who is currently the best player in the competition who is their go-to hit...

Wow. Look I picked by the Lions by 1opts and always thought they could go to a level the Dockers couldn’t but at the 4:18min mark of the last quarter, a 17 point lead out of nowhere the Lions completely turned the tide. ‘Oh wait, Wharfie Time happened – an event used for when they...

I ended up with a monstrous 50mins of clips from this round and we have the 2nd half of it today but first a check up on the remaining teams: Dockers – wind-affected games don’t lend themselves to the lowest scoring teams as they really only have 2 quarters to score and if they don’t...