In the last few seasons Carlton has been below average in there game plan defensively and offensively. From what I could see, and I watched every game, they would apply low pressure around the ball resulting in having to defend and initiate their offense from right back in their defensive 50, and then try and...
Earlier this week I wrote about how I go about analysing games and the process around that and once you’ve got data, then you can really start pinpointing specific things to address within your training sessions. I also listed a lot of the common scenarios that I noticed play out in almost every game of...
I ventured to the Richmond/Sydney game about a month ago and actually managed to get there early which is rare so I was able to get a look at some of the pre-game activities Richmond went through as I was up their end. I’m always interested to see what teams do pre-game as they are...
I’ve got a file on my computer 93 pages deep of training activities and I add to it way faster then I get to post them! I usually pick up 5 – 6 training activities per week from various sources, and my own head, then choose the best 1 to post that week and repeat,...
I saw this on one of the Sydney Swans socials early this year and is a pretty straight forward game play activity. Firstly split the ground in half vertically as per the image. Next create 3 teams from of which I’ve chosen 9v9 but it will depend on your training numbers. If you’re a bit...
This is a pretty straight forward game that focuses on how the offensive team can utilise their outnumber advantage which will require them to hold the footy once they get possession and asses their options to fond the open player. Off the ball players need to work cohesively to create space between them and to...
This training activity focuses on maintaining possession of the ball against multiple layers of defense so it’s replicating a slow play. There’s not much to this besides the starting formation but I’ll provide some constraints you can add to increase the challenge point of the activity. Here’s how it starts: Unlike my dodgy drawing, make...
I’ve posted about staying connected as a team throughout your ball movement and this activity trains this specifically. By using run from behind options, especially from out of the back line, you’re not forcing your forwards to lead up and out of position so even if they do get it, they are usually at a...
This is an excellent training activity that places puts into practice the art of drawing up defenders’s instead of kicking to them in a contest/pack situation. We all encounter teams that flood back or hold a spare defender in our forward line so to combat that you must draw other defender’s out so they become...
This training activity focuses on maintaining possession of the footy while drawing defenders out of their preferred positions. It can be used with youth up to senior level and I’ll provide variations and layers below. Here’s the basic set up: The ball starts at the bottom end with a 4v1 advantage to the red team....