Category: Training/Coaching Articles

Below are probably the 4 most important game principles involved in any team sport, especially Aussie Rules Football. Every coach and every player needs to be familiar with each of these as it will then make things far easier when implementing your game model. They can also be used categorise different game moments which will...

Shane Pill is an Australian PE Teacher/Sport Coach who every coach should read up on in my opinion. Here are some notes taken from an article of his that I titled Play With Purpose in my notes but might have gone by a different name when he published as I can’t locate now! Being a...

Here’s a list of all FREE content you can find on the site: STRAIGHTENING UP KICKING (training drills) AEROBIC CAPACITY TEMPO RUNNING (training programs) MITCH ROBINSON ON HOW TO PLAY THE WING (training/coaching articles) THE TEENAGE BRAIN AND HOW YOU CAN COACH THEM (training/coaching articles) FOOTY FOCUS COURSE WEEK 1 (training programs) THE KICKING MECHANICS...

Having barely touched a footy since we stopped footy training in February, for the last few months I’ve been running through a cycle of: Day 1 x Neural Prep Day Day 2 – Sprint Day Day 3 – Recovery Day (X Basketball shot makes in X mins) Day 4 – Upper Body Weights Day As...

These are notes taken an article from Irish coach Phil Kearney. STAGE #1 – WHAT THE ATHLETE DOES What can you get the athlete to do Experts practice differently and enhance their own strategies via self regulation such as goal setting, task strategies, imagery, self instruction, time management, help seeking, environment structuring, self evaluation and...

I’ve had this note about structuring junior football on my phone for 6 months now so it’s time to do something with it, although I might not make many friends with this post. For memory someone asked on social media somewhere about what to do with them at training or how to do whatever…I can’t...

These are notes taken from a 3 part article series from UK Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies who has a lot of great articles here. Plenty of super takeaways here so make your self comfortable. The self determination theory (SDT) is made up of autonomy (a sense of control over your own life/volition), competence (being...

I’ve discussed coaching language before a little bit on this site in the past and it’s still very much a very underappreciated skill in any coaching job.   What you say and how you say it can have HUGE implications on how your players interpret it.   Any interaction between coach and player generally follows...

Even at local/amateur level, the focus on team defense in footy is clear to see with zones, clusters and the like. The part I want to focus on is the “team” part which means that everyone is working on conjunction with everyone else on their team but as dictated by the opposition. It’s not what...