Category: Training/Coaching Articles

I’ve been banging on about the inadequacy of cone drills for years now but they still seem to be in fashion at all levels of football but if this doesn’t change your mind on them then I don’t know where to go from here! I’ve also just finished up reading a solid read, being How...

Outside of the Matilda’s earlier this year, I’ve probably watched 5 full games of Soccer in my life,and even that might be a stretch. So even though I’m not the biggest fan, the use of Soccer tactics in AFL has drawn me to watching various tactic clips pretty daily on Twitter and read up a...

This is a study I just read last night and this morning that took some reading. It uses players from Gaelic Football consisting of 2 groups – senior players and under 17 players – who are both shown game clips which were then paused and then each discussed the options the ball carrier has, what...

It only took 2 years for Craig McRae to take 14th placed Collingwood from 14th to Premiers. Masterful recruitment and trading (11 + Adams/Mihocek omissions of Collingwood’s 23 played the last game of 2021 prior to his signing) and masterful coaching from the entire Collingwood coaching group, shifted the needle probably more then any 2...

A quick video of 5 things I noticed from last nights AFLW season opener between the Dees and the Pies. I look at the first center bounce clearance, Collingwood using run from behind players, Collingwood’s quick defensive transition moment in their own forward 50, Collingwood needlessly altering tempo and Melbourne creating space off a free...

This situation a junior football league in Melbourne has got itself into, has been doing the social media rounds this week #EXCLUSIVE: The AFL Integrity Unit has been inundated with complaints from angry parents over a controversial decision to shake up junior footy finals, to boost inclusivity. @reid_butler9 #9News pic.twitter.com/kJrEENhgcQ — 9News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) August...

AFLW kicks off this weekend and as usual I’m super-pumped as more footy is always a positive, especially when the AFLW season runs past the AFLM season. I watched every game of every season so far and have analysed games to some degree for all of those 7 seasons as well. In the last 2...

These notes come from a study I read a week or 2 ago about the use of play form activities during practice, looking at the why, how and benefits of doing so. Precisely simulates the properties of competition games in customised settings (contexts) designed to provide many opportunities for the emergence of focused actions/sequences of...

I’ve highlighted this a few times this season but this is maybe the best example of it that’s been captured so far. There are training activities that Collingwood use to train this coming forward action that you can find in both the Pre and In-season Collingwood Training Activities manuals that you can find out more...

I found this in my files from a couple of years ago which is an idea around training that is game simulated. It’s definitely not something you’d do early in your pre-season but only after players have had the chance to get to know the game model and also have a fair idea of what...