Category: Training/Coaching Articles

AFL TEAMS TO HAVE UNDER 18 TEAMS Could the AFL be A 3 teir level organisation with senior, development and underage “teams”? The top underage kids can play some development if they’re good enough and the top development players can move up to seniors if they’re good enough – much like local footy does. Each...

I wrote these notes down when all the “raise the draft age” furore was around at the time so I’ll present my thoughts here which are a bit random so they’ll be in a dot point form with no real fluidity but you’ll get my idea/s anyway, some of which can be done, some which...

During the week I received an email froma reader asking about “what I’ve learnt about decision making” and here’s what I sent back: “…Thanks for the kind words mate. In a nutshell decision making can probably be put down into 2 camps: 1) Learning to Solve the Same Problem Many Ways – Using clearences as...

The 3rd and final part of what ended up being a monster peice of writing! BUILD CONFIDENCE EARLY WITHIN EACH PLAYERS BANDWIDTH I’m not sure if anyone has heard of bio-banding but it refers to grouping juniors into levels based on ability and/or size rather then simply age. Big kids play with the big kids...

Picking right up from yesterday… POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT YEAR With a shortened season and also a potential partial playing list maybe it gives you the perfect time to try something you’ve always wanted to try but always “having to win” stopped you from doing so. This could relate to anything from training to games to off-feild...

With the ever-hopeful impending commencement of local/amateur footy somewhere in the not-to distant future, here are my thoughts on bringing your footbal club back to its regular programming under unprecedented circumstances. A lot of the following issues aren’t new by any stretch but this pandemic has really put a spotlight on what the true deficiences...

Earlier in this series we looked at how improving your vision and the amount of information you take in and compute can dramatically improve your decison making and now we put it into practice. To quickly touch on what goes into clean, fast and efficient decision making you need to have the ability to react...

I’ve been ranting about game models for a while thanks to Fergus Connolly and they are used extensively at elite level in various capacitites and if and when I coach I’ll definitely be implementing one regardless of the grade or age level. We all know of how Richmnond have a specific game plan that they...

In 2017 Sydney Swnas premiership coach Paul Roos released a book called Here It Is mostly detailing his rebuilding of the Melbourne Football Club of whicvh I did 3 different posts on. I specific comment I remember from the book was one of the first things he wanted his players to be extremly good at...

2004 was my last season back in the country before moving to Melbourne where I had 4 years off from playing football of any kind. In that time I watched so much footy is was ridiculous. From all that watching I unconsciously picked up/learnt many 1%er type aspects of footy that when I returned to...