Category: Training Drills

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...

I was given the duty of running a couple of drills with the entire senior/reserve group on Tuesday while the senior coach got around to individual players. One was for touch/skill straight out of the player warm up and the other was for a pressure/tackling focus. KICK TO THE MIDDLE As you can see we...

Players Required: Full Squad Balls Required: 3 – 6 Space Required: 7m x 7m + 30m x 30m + 45m x 45m Drill Level: Easy to Moderate I’ve posted a Mixed Squares drill before but I feel I’ve made it far better, engaging and representative of a game with this 2.0 version. We stay with...

In lower leagues of footy or teams that aren’t blessed with great skills all over the ground, defense is probably your best avenue to staying in games long enough to win them. What we’ll look at today is a training drill for defending in not quite super-tight congestion but more so in a scenario where...

So far this week we looked at a decent size list of scenarios you can isolate at training then I chose 1 specific scenario from that list and discussed what the it “sorta” looks like although you really just provide what the end result should look like and let your players go about achieving it,...

The final part if this concentration series we’ll look at a more integrated, game simulation type drill where concentration, awareness and communication are crucial to the defensive team stopping the the offensive team moving the ball freely. Players Required: 8 – 16 Balls Required: 1 Space Required: 25m x 60m Drill Level: Moderate I’ll show...

I’ve stolen this drill from Glenn Strachan whois involved with the Northern Bullants in the VFL as a player (I think?) who I did some private sector work with late last year. I’d seen variations of this before but he called it the “brain surgeon” and it can get pretty tough with all that’s going...