Category: Training/Coaching Articles

Steve Magness is a performance coach, author and elite athlete with a very interesting past in elite sport that he has been very open about and is how I think I came to read of him initially. He posts an excellent mix of training and preparation content with a different twist then most other coaches’,...

Today we look at notes from German coach Bene Schneiderbauer so the content will be soccer-based but again it can easily be transferred to Aussie Rules Football. He also has a newsletter you can sign up for at https://verticalpossession.com/. TIME AND SPACE The ball carrier needs to find the free player and then know when...

I’ve got pages and pages of stuff compiled from all sorts of places with a lot of that coming from coaches that I follow on social media (Twitter’s my preference). Aussie Rules has always taken from other sports so to fully understand coaching tactically and socially, coaches from other sports have plenty to offer for...

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...