Category: Training/Coaching Articles

These notes come from an AFL-based study titled Sport Practitioners as Sport Ecology Designers: How Ecological Dynamics Has Progressively Changed Perceptions of Skill “Acquisition” in the Sporting Habitat. This, and all studies really, is a long read but full of the most recent coaching specific information which above all, is also evidence-based. The gardener cannot...

A lot of things can change in the next 12 weeks or so but as of right now, it’s Collingwood’s premiership to lose for season 2023. There just doesn’t seem to be any noticeable holes in their game and with best 22 players still to return from injury and suspension, I can’t see the Pies...

This post, or the study in full if you’re really keen, is a must-read for all local/community clubs with a focus on coach development for all coaches within your football club. Strap yourself in for part 2. Barriers and facilitators of coach development include that there is an expectation that the coach developer also needs...

This post, or the study in full if you’re really keen, is a must-read for all local/community clubs with a focus on coach development for all coaches within your football club. Strap yourself in! Coaches are fundamental to the provision of sport experiences and player retention is more likely when players have a positive experience...

I’ve got files and files and stuff I’ve pulled from my research/reading and one of them I have titled “Game Day” but it’s not really representative of what’s in there even though is some game day stuff but as the title indicates, it’s pretty random. Hence most, if not all of these points, could be...

I’ve got files and files and stuff I’ve pulled from my research/reading and one of them I have titled “Game Day” but it’s not really representative of what’s in there even though is some game day stuff but as the title indicates, it’s pretty random. Hence most, if not all of these points, could be...

These notes come a recently released study titled “A Framework to Explain the In-Game Decision Making of Elite Australian Football Coaches.” Coaches relied on subjective/objective sources of information and consulted with assistant coaches, performance analysts and sports scientists Coaches regularly make complex decisions pertaining to training, strategic game-play decisions, athlete management, team selection and recruitment...

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...