Game Plan Video Part 1 looked at the starting positions to run this specific game plan from a stoppage. As stated in that post, if all players are not in the correct starting positions then there will be holes in your player and ball movement, and a turnover in a dangerous position might be on...
I made this up late last year based on a specific but popular ball movement option of using the quarterback position at the stoppage. Utilising the quarterback player/s efficiently and effectively is a team strategy over individual, as it requires great discipline to initially set it up then also to hold your position, create the...
Here’s a kicking my own club has used quite a bit and I like it mainly because it’s practises a different kick then you normally do in your warm up (kick to space for a leading player rather then a linear lead or stationary target) That drill is pretty straight forward so I’ll show that...
I’ve never been a really big warm up guy personally much preferring to do my warm up as close to the game as possible. Other players like a longer warm up and that’s fine too but what is the warm up really about? Is it to warm up the muscles used in a game of...
Here’s another drill variation to reinforcing the habit of squaring up while kicking, 1 of the main attractors of successful kicking that ALL great players possess and display each and every time. For this drill you’ll have groups of 5 or so, but you can do more if you don’t have enough balls to go...
This is a game that has 3 playing zones and 3 separate teams. Unlike cone to cone drills this includes a solid dose of: Decision Making Perception-Action Coupling Clean Skills Team Communication Creating/Playing into Space Player/Ball Transition on Offense/Defense SET UP Zone 1 is 20x20m, Zone 2 is 5x20m and Zone 3 is also 20x20m...
Pretty straight forward this one and not much to it so can be used for almost any team level or number of players. It will train clean hands on the receive and give, player and ball movement, quick transitions, high decision making volume, creating space and nice change of direction loading for the cherry on...
Everyone loves a good old fashioned full ground training drill because it usually involves kicking which is the name of the game. A few issues with how these drills are usually done include: No tactical decision making at all via the cone to cone drills No positioning/locationing aspect Too many players in the 1 area,...
ALL coaches should be extra familiar with the SAID principle. What? You’re not? Simply outrageous. Put your learnin’ hat on then. Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands Right now I want you to think of all the footy drills you run for your players. I bet not 1 of them focus on 1 specific task to...
This is the 3rd variation of the Rondo Drill. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. As per all Ronda variations this drill will train: Clean Hands Creating/Utilising Space Game Simulated Change of Direction Perception-Action Coupling On top of that though this will also introduce a very basic ball transition...