Category: Footy Club Bundle

Part 1  – Introduction

Part 2 – Warm Up / Kick Development / Defense

Part 3 – Line Work (Midfielders/Forwards/Backs)

The last portion of training is now the games portion which allows to playeres to put into a competitve situation all the different information they’ve taken in and processed during the session so far.

If you’ve designed your training sessions properly it will also add representation to the activities you’ve done leading up to know as well.

I’ve got 7 more of these sessions made up in my folder all consisting of completely different drills with each week building on the next so let me know your interest and if there’s a groundswell then I’ll release them them into a package for purchase.

GAMES DRILL – MIXED SQUARES

Players Required: Entire training group but break up into 3 groups of top senior, bottom senior/top reserve and bottom reserve/thirds groups so everyone is challenged as close as possible to their edge range.

Balls Required: 4

Space Required: Half of the Ground

Drill Level: Moderate to Hard

The numbers and area sizes I’ve gone with in the video aren’t set in stone as it will depend on your training group size but the idea is to use a big/kick, medium/hybrid and small/handball sized game.

BIG/KICK GAME

I would look at using a possession football game counting each kick that is marked by a teammate. If the ball hits the ground then play on but if it gets in dispute then it’s a turnover so the ball can hit the ground if a teammate can gather it and play on.

The ball hits-the-ground-turnover rule makes no sense in local/amateur football considering it spends most of the time there during our games – train what does happen not what you want to happen.

So if team A gets 8 possessions then turns the ball, over then they start from 8 next time they get it and so on for time.

MEDIUM/HYBRID GAME

Give each team a ratio they have to play by such as 3 kicks + 1 handball v 4 kicks + 1 groundball + 1 handball.

Teams score a point when they complete their ratio but if there is a turnover mid ratio then they start again.

To make it even harder you could have teams follow the ratio in order.

SMALL/HANDBALL GAME

4 Goal Game is a solid handball game to play in congestion a small to medium sized area but you could easily use 1 set 2 sets of goals in a smaller area.

You could roll with a Progressive Pressure Rondo Drill, a keepings off game like the kicking game but for handball or a ratio game with groundballs like the medium game.

Go silly.

How you score these games are also up to you depending on if you use a game based on scoring with goals or goal players or a game based on possession count (possessions in a row, time with ball etc).

As you’ve got 3 groups/6 teams you can also have the bottom team/s play less time as they will probably have less fitness than the top group/s and thus won’t be able to tolerate the same workload before fatigue sets in causing nothing but skill errors and potential injury now or later down the track.

PART 6

Part 1  – Introduction

Part 2 – Warm Up / Kick Development / Defense

At this point we’re about 30 – 35mins into the session and it’s time to break into groups.

Grouping your players into their specific lines that they’ll most likley play in is all part of the stream lining approach as well as making training ore specific to each player.

So break your players up into backs, midfielders and forwards but there might be a little bit of switching of players depending on the drill as I’ll outline below.

MIDFIELD DRILL – STOPPAGE QUARTERBACK

Players Required: Depends on your total training numbers but you want to set up 4 groups of 4 – 6 players if possible which might mean you include all players in this drill or pull some half forwards and half backs from the other groups to make up the numbers but only if it allows you to still run the forwards and backs drills at the same time, otherwise use the entire squad for this one.

Balls Required: 4

Space Required: 35 x 35m

Drill Level: Moderate

Our home ground is literally a postage stamp (125 x 80m I reckon) so to be able to create room to play into we like to play out the back of the contest instead of simply running into congestion that’s simply there because they have nowhere else to go!

So this is my game model specific but you might have other tactics and strategies you’d rather focus on.

Level 1 – Outnumber game + quarterback waiting on the outside for the whistle who kicks to a lateral/or 45 degree lead coming from the next box

Level 2 – Outnumber game but the quarterback is 1 of the offensive players from the outnumber game so you can either nominate the player or nominate the side you play the ball out of and the closest player pulls out and the others get it to them for again hitting upa lead from the next box. This is probably your best option if training numbers are low but it’s will decrease the chance of success a fair bit from level 1.

Level 3 – Outnumber game + quarterback waiting on the outside hitting up the kick into the middle of the playing area which will require a kick into some congestion.

Level 4 – Outnumber game but the quarterback is 1 of the offensive players and you are to hit up the kick into the middle of the playing area again requiring a kick into congestion.

Level 5 – If you’re feeling extra spicy then introduce both leading options to the outside of the box and to the middle of the playing area but have the defender go with 1 of those options so the kicker must find the open option. With 1 defender success might come easy for the kicker as the defender might be too tired to actually get to 1 of the leading players but multiple defenders they’ll nominate between themselves who will defend the lead and it’ll be much harder as they’ll be less fatigued and the kicker won’t be aware of which defender to kick away from.

BACKS DRILL – SCAN AND KICK

Players Required: 10/group

Balls Required: 1/group

Space Required: 20m x 2om

Drill Level: Easy to Moderate

In most cases I would start with some game model rehearsal based activities such as the quarterback drill like above and the forward line drill below but for the backs that first kick has to be safe and it has to hit the target so as not to put the defense under repeat pressure on top of other backline players pushing forward to provide options up the ground leaving the defensive 50 vulnerable if there’s a turnover.

Level 1 – 1 side leading but have the kicker have to kick outside and inside their body

Level 2 – both sides leading but 1 side only leads every 2nd kick so it’s half the decision making requirement

Level 3 – both sides leading each time and the kicker can kick inside or outside their body depending on where the open target is

On top of these levels you could also challenge your better kickers by allowing them to attempt kicks with a defender but 2 misses in a single training session and they lose that privilege for the remainder of the drill.

Player 1 receives 20 passes from player 2 and see’s how many targets they can hit up and do each player 2 – 3 times each.

FORWARDS DRILL – GAME MODEL REHEARSAL

Players Required: 8/group

Balls Required: 1/group

Space Required: Forward Half of the Ground

Drill Level: Easy

Level 1 – As above

Level 2 – Add 1 defender to play against the player 2 in board kickor the player 3 and 4 fat side leads. The sole defender will start with each group in the congestion and can decide to go with whichever forward they like so there’s some decision making to be made by the other players there.

Level 2 – Add 2 defenders who can choose who they go with but also decreases the forward outnumber advantage

Level 3 – Add 3 defenders which brings the numbers to evens but defenders must man the mark of marked kicks

Level 4 – Add more players to the scenario

PART 5