Category: Training Drills

This final introductory video shows how the Swans build their offensive lanes via their player, and thus ball movement, which also builds their defense at the same time. The player lanes was probably the real magic in the Swans offense in season 2021 as it keeps all 22 players in the play for as long...

Once again we move towards more game representation when introducing this Sydney Swans game style to a new team. In this video we introduce defenders into the mix which will change how the activity looks but it shouldn’t change the processes and principles of play that the players follow, and go through, during the activity....

Yesterday’s video outlined what I would use as.a starting point for teaching the Sydney Swans game style at local level. Today I progress the same training activity, layering towards something more representative of the game but you can’t start at the finish or you’ll find major gaps in learning and implementation on game day, where...

I’ve been banging on about the Sydney Swans game style introduced in season 2021 for a while now and for good reason, it took us from 16th spot to 6th and 5 wins to 15 with a team full of youngsters, albeit very talented ones. It builds a player an thus ball movement pattern unlike...

A few weeks ago I did a series of posts firstly on some of the tactics the Sydney Swans used to decimate the West Coast Eagles and then how by just adding few tweaks it can be used in local/amateur football to what I suspect would be great effect. Here’s a video of training drill/scenario...

This is just a little twist on a basic half ground game with 2 even teams. Usually it works like basketball and bring the ball out of defense to the middle of the ground then you play transittion offense to get it back into the forward 50 and score. Nothing extra ground breaking for this...

What we have here is a drill that includes 4 specific scenario kicks used a lot during a game so is very representative of what happens on a Saturday. It combines 4 different scenarios into the single activity so players need to perform different kicks within the same drill but specific kicks that are required...

Players Required: 10 – 11 Balls Required: 1 Space Required: 40 x 80m Drill Level: Moderate Nothing ground breaking here but the learning opportunities come through the constraints used in this game, which presents a lot of different affordances. AREA SIZE You can see the area sized I used last night and I used it...

Players Required: 9 Balls Required: 1 Space Required: 10 x 20m Drill Level: Moderate  ...

The man on the mark drill has been a big inclusion to all footy leagues and grades this year so it stands to good reason that you need to focus on being able to exploit it to your advantage and this drill aimsat doing just that. This more a template of 1 way you can...