Category: Training Drills

Looking at this game about a month ago and when North were flying and the Dogs were win less it looked like a forfeit would have been a better result, and then with the Dogs getting their first win last week against the Eagles, it’s like they got their win and they’ll drop back to...

With a finals spot on the line and missing their best player in Rowbottom, the Suns got it done against Essendon on Friday night, setting up an elimination finals against my Sydney Swans this coming Saturday night. I wasn’t sure if they could replace what Rowbottom does and that Maddy Prespakis would take over in...

Whenever I have conversations around AFLW it usually gets to the question of “how can we increase scoring?”, and my answer is always, and Sydney coach Scott Gowans agrees, is to increase player numbers to 18-a-side. I’m not a million $ sure this would even improve scoring but it definitely would improve the ability to...

I noted a lot more clips then usual this weekend so we finish off with a 22min video this week but full of great coaching tidbits. First we look at Carlton employing a tagger for Maddy Prespakis which didn’t work for a variety of reasons, as this clip shows. We also look at Carlton during...

It’s been a disappointing year for both teams in 2023 with even their respective coaches having their moment’s publicly which never helps when you’re losing heavily. That being said I picked the Dogs to get the win as I just couldn’t see Ellie Blackburn not getting them over the line – and she did! Here’s...

Gold Coast have progressed nicely this season, having been in the top 8 for the majority of the year off the back of midfield dominance, especially on the contested side of things but also improving on the outside as well. GWS have had their moments but are still about 1 player per line away from...

This is a 2-way training activity that helps in offensive players searching, identifying and passing to open options in a relatively fast play situation while the defending team are constantly deciding whether to push up and defend or holds back, and who will do either of those actions at any given time. Here’s the video...

In part 2 of 2 for round 7 we get our 2nd tick lead of the season on a fast play going inside 50, this time directly resulting in a goal to GWS. Doyle runs to goal to generate length and get Peterson’s back to the ball which is really the main goal of running...

Last week I posted a video from Soccer showing how they drew their defenders forward and away from defending their goal, eventually creating space between the player compactness and the goal, and this being able to play through the opposition and into the space for an easy score. I talked about how this same principle...

This activity had a bit much going on to video so I’ve had to break it up into 8 images but once it’s set up its pretty simple. It has 3 teams but 2 colors, with the aim being to transition the ball from 1 end to the other. First we set up the playing...