Category: Training/Coaching Articles

For the last couple of months I’ve been reading the book Yellow and Black by Konrad Marshall, a very detailed read that folows the inner sanctum of the Richmond Football Club throughout their premiership drought breaking 2017 season. It has been on my reading list since it came out in 2018 as I liked the...

WHAT ARE AFFORDANCES? Affordances refers to practice design that involves the manipulation of task constraints, for the purpose of soliciting affordances for players to act upon. They present as opportunites/invitations for action and it’s up to the player whether to take them or not where a more attractive invite provides greater incentive to take it....

Every Tuesday at the end of training we go through some vision from the previous week’s game senior game on things we did good and things we didn’t do so well and this clip was showed: https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/video-1620259859.mp4 For memory this was a “bad” one as sometimes we tend to ignore a simple/immediate option and continue...

This will be the final edition of the AFLW Insights for season 2021 so I hope you’ve enjoyed watching/reading them and also been able to improve your own game intelligence from them as well, regardless if you’re a player or a coach. ADELAIDE TRANSITION OFFENSE PART 1 MY TAKE The Crows had some excellent pasages...

MELBOURNE v ADELAIDE ZONE DEFENSE I just noticed these wide screen shots during the game and thought I’d take a closer look at them and here’s pretty much what they looked like with Adeliade like this: …and Melbourne like this: Pretty similar but here’s a few thoughts on them. Adelaide get 12 defenders back as...

PERCEPTION-ACTION COUPLING MELBOURNE GOAL MY TAKE Perception-Action Coupling is a must for all team sports and in a nutshell, refers to reacting to what you see. Now WHAT you see is dependant is how many different scenarios you’ve been exposed and also how many different solutions you’ve attempted to solve whatever problems arise within them....

Who ya got and why? Let me know. https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/video-1617796254.mp4...

SHALLOW FREMANTLE EXITS FROM DEFENSE MY TAKE I’ve had a shallow exit insight in most weeks for season 2021 and Freo really excelled in them this past weekend. Freo are at their best when they can recound out of defense and surge down the ground getting over the back-type goals but from a combination of...

Who do you choose and why? Let me know. https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/video-1617339674.mp4...

VESIO LONG RUN AND GOAL MY TAKE You can actually track Vesio through this entire play from her mark in the defensive half to her goal and it just goes to show that you don’t have to be able to run the length of the ground at pace so long as you can read the...