It only took 2 years for Craig McRae to take 14th placed Collingwood from 14th to Premiers. Masterful recruitment and trading (11 + Adams/Mihocek omissions of Collingwood’s 23 played the last game of 2021 prior to his signing) and masterful coaching from the entire Collingwood coaching group, shifted the needle probably more then any 2...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: POOR PA WORK RATE, POOR PIES CONNECTION, GWS MISSED OPPORTUNITY ON DEFENSE, POOR GWS I50
In the last of the 3 analyst posts for round 5 we’ll look at the final 4 clips. Port Adelaide not being able to get in front of the ball on defense while letting West Coast run forward of them inside 50 and score. Once again we see poor forward craft/connection, this time from Collingwood...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: MOODY BETTER FWD CRAFT, SHORT v LONG OPTION, POOR WEST COAST CONNECTION
Carlton have made a big shift in 2023 moving All-Australian Ruck Bre Moody to a permanent forward position. In some previous videos over the last few seasons I have done some clips on her leading patterns when resting as a forward and how they needed some work if her craft was to catch up to...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: TRANSITION OFF, NOT FINDING THE +1 ADV, FWDS TOO DEEP, POOR I50
We’re already half through this AFLW season which is ridiculous! Today we have 5 clips from 1 of 3 posts this week and we’ll be looking at: Collingwood poor connection going inside 50 Melbourne transition offense on fast play Geelong not searching well enough for the outnumber advantage and kicking long to contest Richmond coming...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: WEST COAST NEEDS WORK, GREAT CONNECTION, PIES JUST OFF, DOGS KICK OUT
In the last video of round 4 (Thursday game tomorrow- finally!) we have 7 clips looking at: West Coast in all sorts from poor rebounding from defensive 50, to a potentially better strategy to moving the ball through the mid 50, to giving up control of the ball in your forward half Great Freo midfield/forward...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – NORTH MELBOURNE v BRISBANE
Brisbane and North Melbourne have been 2 of the best teams in AFLW since each others inception in season 1 and season 3 respectively. This past weekend’s game was another close contest with the Lions registering a come from behind win away from home to keep them in arms’ length of the top end of...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: LANE RUNNING, DEF WING RUN, CONNECTION, CARLTON JUST OFF
We’ve got 19 clips over 3 videos from round 4, a banger of a round with upsets and come from behind victories. Today we look at: Melbourne developing their lane running but off of a general play ball up at half back How the best wingers play as goal keepers in the defensive half, allowing...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIO – MIDFIELD/FORWARD CONNECTION
First one of these for a while! This game/training scenario looks at midfield and forward connection in fast play and came from the Western Bulldogs/Hawthorn AFLW game from round 2. PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – Contested situation at our center half back GAME MOMENT – Ball kicked out of contest and marked in the center of...
AFLW ROUND 3 GAME ANALYSIS: ST KILDA v PORT ADELAIDE
This post is focused on the St Kilda/Port Adelaide game from this past weekend with 3 clips from that game. The first clip looks at how Poet Adelaide develop their forward half defensive formation while possessing the ball through slow play and then I suggest a minor improvement on how they could have really ramped...
AFLW GAME ANALYSIS – DEVELOPING LANES FROM A KICK OUT, FORWARD LINE COHESION, NOT HAVING ANY PLAYERS INSIDE 50, MID 50 LASSO DEFENSIVE FORMATION
Today I have 4 clips that I dive into: Melbourne developing their running lanes from a kick out Fremantle forward line cohesion West Coast trying to score with a huge outnumber disadvantage and obviously failing Gold Coast team defense off mid 50 lasso free kick...