Category: Training/Coaching Articles

Kevin Middleton is another soccer coach and coach educator out of Scotland who has his fingers in a lot of pies if you look at his Twitter bio which enables him to provide wide-sweeping insights into soccer and team sport in general. MIDFIELD PLAYER PERSONALITIES The Energiser x motor/ball pressure…The Passer x skilful/break opposition lines…The...

***NOTE*** – To start with I’ve written about kicking technique in the past here and here and today will go over some of this in a far more condensed fashion. Yesterday I came across 1 neutral football coach comparing the methods of 2 other football coaches that both focus on kicking technique with 1 of...

Bernat Mosquera is another UEFA soccer coach and coach educator from Spain and I’ve been reading his content for a couple of years now. Again – and as Twitter forces you to be – it is single focused but also actionable. Now that we’re 4 coaches into this 8-part series, you should have started to...

I came across Philip some years ago as he began his search on mastering a constraints-led approach to his tennis coaching. He’s based in Ireland so also expect some references to various Gaelic sports. Since than he has posted his journey of learning and now implementing everything he has learnt and posts very easily digestible...

Steve Magness is a performance coach, author and elite athlete with a very interesting past in elite sport that he has been very open about and is how I think I came to read of him initially. He posts an excellent mix of training and preparation content with a different twist then most other coaches’,...

Today we look at notes from German coach Bene Schneiderbauer so the content will be soccer-based but again it can easily be transferred to Aussie Rules Football. He also has a newsletter you can sign up for at https://verticalpossession.com/. TIME AND SPACE The ball carrier needs to find the free player and then know when...

I’ve got pages and pages of stuff compiled from all sorts of places with a lot of that coming from coaches that I follow on social media (Twitter’s my preference). Aussie Rules has always taken from other sports so to fully understand coaching tactically and socially, coaches from other sports have plenty to offer for...

These notes come an article by Mark O’Sullivan, a UEFA Coach and researcher from Sweden and is definitely worth a follow, looking at Ecological Football. Ecological football refers to knowing not just more about football but to know better Players should be active agents in their learning and not just mere receivers of knowledge Agency...

The Brisbane Lions have been the best ball movement team in the AFL for years now with a focus on complete control with ball in hand, backed up by once again leading the league with an average of 104.4 marks per game in 2025. But let’s go back a few steps… Ex-West Coast coach Adam...

I have just completed a 2nd volume for Center Bounce Clearance and an 18th chapter in the Coaching Modern Football series that is now available from the register page. We start out looking at organising your set up by taking into account things like: How To Set Up What Are We Trying to Achieve? In...