Today is day #1 of the 10 Secrets of Footy that Players & Coaches Can Train in the Time Off. I forgot to add 1 secret to the list so that will actually go to 11! #1 – SPEED DEVELOPMENT I’ve harped on about developing your max speed for years and for good reason –...
We moved house last week so I was a bit light on for content in what was probably the weirdest week most of us have ever been part of. The unceretainty of the AFL was changing by the hour but what is certain is that all local footy is off until at least the start...
This article popped up on my feed last week looking at AFL Queensland implementing Catapult, a GPS tech company, into it’s pathway programs. Before I start be sure to remember that I am talking from a local/amatuer football point of view, not AFL. Late last year it might have been, I saw another article on...
Here’s yet another follow up to the women’s football ACL epidemic about a month after yesterday’s post. It looks at more contact with John who attended the Latrobe Uni Women in Sport seminar that was held here in Melbourne about this time last year with several speakers from different area’s talking all things female sport....
This post was made about 18mths after yesterday’s post after another bout of female footballer ACL injuries. Geelong #1 pick Nina Morrison had just done her ACL in her first game in the AFLW and we all had the “here we go again” thoughts. In this post I link 6 articles relating to ACL injury...
Last November I made a post titled “How I Would Train A Women’s Football Team” that looked some concepts I would focus on if I was to coach a women;s football team at any level. My initial area’s of focus were to: Teach Kicking but Only to a “Good Enough” Level Get the Ball to...
During the 2019 seasons of AFLW I posted some weekly insights that of passages of play that I noticed watching the games of things done well, things done not so well and how they could be done better. I had many arrows and colorful lines in those earlier edition videos but this year I’ve dialled...
About 3 weeks ago I made a post consisting of 10 tips for improving team culture which I hope you’ve been able use or gbet something from and with club culture being so hard to attain at local/amateur level from player/admin turnover and interrupted continuity, here’s some more. By focusing on the “target” and hitting...
The problems with junior sport participation, including football, are very real. And let’s not think it’s just “juniors” either, we’re talking pre-teen and teenage participation numbers as well. 1 very crucial thing we must all remember when there is a change in how football is run at club or league level, is that it is...
I made this up late last year based on a specific but popular ball movement option of using the quarterback position at the stoppage. Utilising the quarterback player/s efficiently and effectively is a team strategy over individual, as it requires great discipline to initially set it up then also to hold your position, create the...