The girls and I completed session #13 for pre-season 2025 last night and it was our best yet with a great turn out numbers-wise that allowed us to play an actual game within a large area. I found out somethings that some players were able to do that we hadn’t been able to see yet...
Here’s another dose of training exercises I’ve used with my women’s senior team during our pre-season so far. Numbers are still fluctuating because it was January which is very early for most girl’s to be really deep in thinking about footy, up until the Australia Day weekend many are still in holiday mode even if...
The girls and I have completed 7 training sessions so far and it’s all been great so today I’ll go through some of the training activities that we’ve performed (not real important) and the why and how’s behind them (the most important). I covered off a ground ball progression a couple of weeks ago which...
Yesterday I posted about task simplification and all the why’s, what’s and when’s around it and today we get to the how with a real-world example I used this week with my senior women’s team. For a bit of background, we did some game-sim the session before without any real instructions from me except the...
A lot of coaches are still stuck in the traditional methods of running training which means a lot of cone-to-cone stuff which is a massive misrepresentation of what the demands of a game are but it’s always a case of teaching how you were taught. I’m here to right that and have been for some...
Brisbane averaged over 100 marks per game in season 2024, capping that off with a ridiculous 158 in the Grand Final itself leading to a whopping possession of 53% for the game! If each mark and then kick on average is 5secs in length (just making this up), then that’s over 13mins with the ball...
We’ve all seen GWS and how they get their extremely-speedy small forwards up the ground then slingshot back with leg speed and handball before kicking deep to Jesse Hogan with the most assured hands in the league. This isn’t a complicated tactic by any stretch and you don’t really necessarily need the leg speed to...
As always remember that these training activities simply have a brief description and that’s it – no images, diagrams and pictures to accompany them. Let’s get to activities 111 – 121. #111 – STRIPE Make a stripe across the ground and set up your numbers before the start of play but then they can’t move...
This training activity works mostly on the starting positions of your players which if done effectively, can afford the opportunities you want presented, to the defense or offense. This is an offensive-based training activity so we will position the defense where we want them to provide a greater opportunity for the offense to have success,...
This training activity is a quick kicking game you can use with a group of any size. It’s a training activity with a single focus (find a mark) which is often overlooked as we try and cram multiple game aspects together which in turn then broadens the focus and nothing really gets enough focus to...