Category: Training/Coaching Articles

3 weeks or so ago I took part in a course run by AFL Sportsready on the coaching fundamentals of AFL skills. It was presented by Austin Stubs over at AFLHP Coaching who has worked at pretty much every level of football you can imagine, including the AFL, last employed at Essendon FC before the...

DO WE NEED SHORTER PRE-SEASONS? (coaching) MITCH ROBINSON ON HOW TO PLAY THE WING POSITION (tactical) GAME CHANGER MACRO MOMENTS (book notes) GAME CHANGER TRAINING (book notes) GAME CHANGER TEAM DEFENSE (book notes) GAME CHANGER 4 CO-ACTIVES (book notes) GAME CHANGER TEAM/CLUB CULTURE (book notes) GAME CHANGER PHYSICAL CO-ACTIVE (book notes) GAME CHANGER PSYCHOLOGICAL CO-ACTIVE...

#1 – PRINCIPLES OVER SITUATIONAL PLAY A game model at its most basic level contains 3 “moments” being game, macro and micro moments. These 3 types of moments involve the time of the moment, the location of the moment and what your team can control in those moments. A lot of current game plans involve...

A query was posted in one of the many coaching Facebook pages I’m in asking about individual game review/feedback templates so I thought I’d have a crack at one quickly. Now where 99% of these types of things (assessments) look at the end result, my style is looking at the process of how you got...

WHAT Developing your own game model is the next frontier in coaching at all levels and is something developed to make your coaching, especially in under-resourced conditions, a lot easier to implement, resulting in greater player compliance and thus team results. I have developed this off the back of my readings of Fergus Connolly and...

This video came up on my Twitter feed today showing some film session insight between James Worpel and Sam Mitchell after the Hawks/Sydney game a couple of weeks back. It shows a non-complicated and controlled way of giving direct feedback to a player in a 1-on-1 setting, something not used enough in local/amateur football circles...

2 Saturday’s ago we got a call from my brother back home that Warrnambool that Dad had taken himself into hospital and was to undergo surgery for a bowel obstruction which we thought was a pretty routine sort of a thing for a hospital to perform. 4 – 5 hrs later the doctors knew there...

So far we’ve had 2 posts in this kicking series: THE KICKING MECHANICS RABBIT HOLE KICKING MECHANICS KINOGRAM METHOD Today is part 3 with the final part 4 tomorrow. Today I’m going to quickly lay out a very general progression of kicking constraint drills which will provide game simulated context to kicking mechanics and skill...

My previous post titled “The Kicking Mechanics Rabbit Hole”  looked at how I’ve seen kicking mechanics taught by various coaches and what the potential shortcomings could be of those various methods. In a nutshell too many internal cues (hands here, leg does this, arm goes there etc) serves to only overload the kicker with information...

There’s so many kicking mechanics programs out and about these days which on 1 hand is great that there’s options for players of all ages and abilities to go to improve their football in a individualised setting but on the other hand I’m still not sure about them either for reasons I’m still to decide...