Having seen a heap of local/amateur footy in my days, when the ball is in the backline then the mantra is pretty much get the ball out of there using as few players as possible with as much territory as possible. Now that’s not a bad ploy but I’d bet more times than not that...
Here’s another 4 training activities that I’ve used with my school team so far this season. Some of the activities are progressions of the same activity from the week/s prior and some train a specific aspect that we wanted to focus on from the previous week. As always we are dependent on training numbers between...
Here are the 4 training activities I used for training session #2 with my school footy group a few months ago, that builds off of session #1 posted last week. 1 of the secrets of building adaptable players is to present activities that are similar but not completely different so they get exposure to similar...
Once you get your head around implementing small sided games for most of your training time then it’s time to think about how you can build them around specific aspects of your game model. Like cone to cone skill drills, which doesn’t train skill, it trains technique, we tend to train team tactics, strategies and...
This game has a focus on decision making, holding the football and only taking 100% options (for the most part). One of the biggest issues in community football of pretty much every level is the wanting to go super-fast as much as possible and the age-old mantra of “your first option is always your best...
I love the zone set up of under 8’s footy and I believe it could, and probably should be, used in some shape or form in under 10’s or even 12’s footy, especially if we’re gonna roll with using full ground games for kids that can only kick 15m. This game uses zones similar to...
The 3rd small sided game in this series is a game built around maintaining possession. To maintain possession the ball carrier needs to wait until a suitable option comes up and for a good portion of this game, it will just be a matter of “taking your 8 (secs)” and this should present itself. For...
This small sided game is one you would use to focus a on and encourage the use of width with your ball movement. If you’ve read my Sydney Swans game style content as well as the Collingwood ball movement post from yesterday, using width for both player and ball movement is the secret to opening...
For the last week we’ve looking at trying to get coaches of all levels to start shifting away from traditional training methods of unopposed cone to cone drills that train what you want to happen, but not what does actually happen, in games. This lack of perception-action coupling provides zero decision making from your players...
After 68 games, 100 videos and 805 clips, the Adelaide Crows have solidified their place in AFLW history by winning their 3rd premiership and with expansion coming in season 2022 part 2 (?), it’s gonna be a while before see a dynasty like this again. This membership will remain as it is and in my...