Category: Training/Coaching Articles

This game didn’t hit any great heights except for the Rolls Royce performance of Isaac Heeney. Compiling 34 possessions with 16 contested, 13 clearances, 8 marks, 5 tackles and kicking 5 goals on top of that is surely performance of the year material and will take some game to top it. Hence this game analysis...

We all know that the quickest way to goal is through the corridor so it stands to reason that Your ball movement and/or player positioning, needs to be developed in accordance to that, and Collingwood do it better than anyone. They are willing, and literally coached, to go corridor from anywhere on the ground at...

The Saints are pretty close at the moment and the Swans tiny chance of still making finals still stands although teams who we needed to lose won on the weekend so it actually closed more then it opened! I Tweeted during the week that Brodie Grundy now has to be a serious consideration to over...

This was a banger of a contest where we saw the best of both sides with Gold Coast’s first half dominance then the to-be-expected comeback from the Pies in the second half of the game. What we probably didn’t expect, and hadn’t seen yet, was the Suns’ ability to go again very late in the...

I first noticed full-team lane running by the Sydney Swans back in 2021 when our offense first starting exploding but there’s still only them and Collingwood who use it regularly and it is a staple of launching from half back for both teams. In the women’s game, Melbourne and North Melbourne have jumped on board...

Are the Swans back or are the Dockers disappointing once again? At the moment it’s a bit of both yet but Sydney need to win every game form now on + have other teams lose to the right teams to make the 8 and Freo don’t need to look any further then this weekends game...

If you gave yesterday’s Carlton/Collingwood’s game analysis a watch then you’ll be all over this as I explained a lot of this during that video but I feel this could help all coaches so I thought I’d isolate these 2 clips specifically to help as many of you as I can. Simply going on the...

As is becoming customary at this point, there was zero physical (46 v 60 tackles) or tactical (8 goals from 49 entries v 17 from 60) response from the Blues in this game and not that I see sacking Voss will do anything at this point, but it’s a long tail to the season if...

The forward press defense was popularised by Richmond during their premiership years where Sydney started using it very soon after and now a bunch of clubs use it regularly. This needs to be a full team mentality as every player needs to be all-in on this for it to work, otherwise huge holes will be...

Not much was expected from this game over the weekend but the provided a very good showing of themselves, even if the Pies were trying a short kicking game that worked into the Eagles hands as far as pressuring was concerned. As always though it’s all in the consistency of effort and execution for the...