Category: Training/Coaching Articles

What you’re about to read is a sort-of-backwards approach to women’s footy I’ve been thinking about for a while now that might be worth a shot at trying for a lone wolf, left field, unpredictable and innovative women’s coach out there. I’ve been mulling over how to do this post for a while but it’s...

TRAINING DRILLS Yes, we’ve already got a separate training drills section on the site but here are some idea’s pointers to keep in mind when developing your own training drills: Use training drills that require verbal and non-verbal communication over cone-to-cone variations to build rhythm and also for players to get to know each other’s...

Much like life, football is multiple high dosages of stress. Physical stress. Psychological stress. Systemic stress. Localised stress. Good stress. Bad stress. Certain amounts of stress/overload is required to progress or get better at anything in life, but because even the tiniest amount of excess stress can have dramatically negative affects on performance, knowing how...

The psychological co-active is the most underutilised co-active which needs to change if you want fully developed players. but it’s hard to quantify which is probably why it doesn’t get the attention it should. To build the psychological co-active for each individual player, coaches need to set aside time to get to know players on...

This post will look at some lesser known aspects of the physical co-active which goes a lot further into the hole then a 2km time trial as well as the ridiculously underutilised psychological co-active – an area at local/amateur level that can have perhaps the greatest affect on your team and players performance then anything...

Successful teams possess high culture values and more importantly, follow through on them in good and bad times. To do this you must: Create an identifiable culture anchored by unshakable beliefs and values View problems as opportunities Get comfortable being uncomfortable Refuse to accept nothing but the best which is often what you’ll get when...

One of the major driving themes of the Game Changer book is the 4 co-actives being: Tactical Technical Psychological Physical Every singular action in any sport involves these 4 aspects so it stands to reason that you must expose your players to all of them in training to prepare them for game day. TACTICAL Tactical...

There’s not a lot of man-to-man defense in AFL or local/amateur footy anymore with the emphasis moving to a team defense through the use of zones and compression of space in your won forward line. That being said there are still times that defenders can caught in 1-on-1 situations but these days it is minimised...

As my playing career is entering its final years (probably not), I’ve made a pretty big shift in reading up on coaching more so then training in the last 18 months or so and is what lead me to purchasing this book in the first place. In that time and reflecting on all the footy...

In this article we look at the 25+ points I noted down in relation to actual training, team and individual from the Gamechanger book. I just received his new book in the mail Friday too so there’s a heap more where this comes from. Strap yourselves in… GAME SIMULATION I call it tempo footy because...