Category: Training Drills

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...

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...

I read a little bit about player concentration the other day and like everything else, if you want your players to have it and, display it on gameday, then if you don’t you don’t put focus on it at training then the you the coach, is to blame, not the players. Players Required: 12/group but...

Today I watched a training drill from an Irish Gaelic coach today and thought how similar it looked to 1 I have already posted but also how I could make that previous drill also more game representative and wholla – the 3 Game Combo training drill is born. Players Required: Everyone who trains that night...