This is a great training activity to nail the basics of winning the contest at stoppage, especially for lesser experienced players regardless of age. It takes a tiny slice of the game and narrows the focus so players only need to focus on a few learning points so as not to overstretch too much and...
This is a pretty simple possession focused activity that can be performed in smaller area with handball or bigger area’s with kicking. The main difference to these types of training activities is that it includes 2 neutral offensive players that simply stay on offense and assist whatever team is in possession. The neutrals can also...
About a month ago I posted about the 3 zones of football and how you could use it to guide your training more specifically than you currently do and today we’re going to have a look at how to that in regards to training to apply huge forward pressure which gives you increased game time...
There’s nothing I love more than coaches letting some little cats out of their bag in regards to tactics and coaching nous and Collingwood’s Craig McRae isn’t shy, or guarded, in a lot his press conferences. I watch every one of his and of course John Longmire (Swans supporter), and they could not be ore...
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...