Category: Training/Coaching Articles

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...

This time last year I was finishing up Gamechanger by Fergus Connolly, a book on individual and team preparation for team sports, and is probably the greatest thing I’ve read on the subject in my life. It has totally changed my idea’s on training and coaching. I did a 14 part post series on it...

Mitch Robinson provides the different positioning as wing position player depending on the situation…You gotta love Mitch Robinson surely? He’s hard, wears his heart on his sleeve and is pretty good on social media as well – he’s the ultimate teammate. After teammate Hugh McCluggage was snubbed an All- Australian birth over “non-specific” wingman (i.e....

Should the pre-seasons for local/amateur football be shorter? Like nothing before Xmas shorter? This top local level senior coach thinks so… I come from Warrnambool originally and down that way we have the Hampden Football Netball League which has been a top 10 league in Victoria forever moving up to 6th from 8th this year...