Category: Training/Coaching Articles

Craig McRae has thoroughly confused the AFL landscape as watching Collingwood games is must see for all AFL-fans, firstly for their attack at all cost playing style but also the belief he has instilled in the group that they can win from any position imaginable. They make teams play to the full minutes and make...

GERMANY FOUNDATION PHASE We touched on Germany Youth Soccer above and here’s a bit on more on some of the changes they made to make youth soccer developmentally fair, age appropriate, more game time, more dribbling, more individual success, more goals and more ball contacts. In U11’s they switched from 7v7 to small sided games...

I’m always interested in reading how other sports and clubs from around the world set up their junior programs as I strongly believe we could be doing it much better over here, especially for Aussie Rules Football. We have huge dropouts from under 12’s to u16’s and that definitely filters into senior ranks down the...

The Cave of Adullam follows Detriot-based martial arts teacher Jason Wilson and his teachings within his facility. He focuses heavily on releasing past and current trauma through various techniques, not just martial arts, for not just kids but adults as well. The hyperlink above says it will take you to the movie but it doesn’t...

I’ve done another of these back in Jan/Feb 2020 and I have a heap these so I should do them more regularly plus there might be 1 specific point that you decide could take your club to the next level and then it’s all about action. The season has already started but building culture should...

These notes come from an article from soccer coach David Garcia about option making from teammates off the ball so the player with ball can have an easier time making positive decisions and I add some real AFL specific scenarios at the bottom of the article. Playing football is a constant decision making process and...

Earlier in the week we looked at Collingwood’s defensive positioning allowing them to transition off turnover in a matter of seconds and today we’ll look at something similar but within a different stage of the game. This mostly used on kick outs but also on slow plays that they initiate from deep in defense. It’s...

Let’s take a quick look at how Collingwood set up defensively as a team and how it feeds their offense which is what you’re really after as a solid defensive scheme on it’sown can restrict opposition scoring but it doesn’t really help you to score off the back of it. Collingwood want to own the...

Last week I introduced spaced retrieval practice so now here’s a bit more on that and also how to do it. In the study these notes came from, 1 group performed spaced retrieval practice and the other massed practice which looked like this: The spaced retrieval practice group performed 1 x 10min lesson per day...

I’ve posted somewhat extensively in regards to using classroom teaching methods into coaching as the coach-player relations hip is essentially the same. The coach teaches player/s how they want them to play then goes ahead and tries to instill that so that the players become autonomous and can carry it out come game day all...