Aussie Rules Training

During my weekly watch of Fox Footy’s Last Crack on a Sunday night at the completion of each round, Kingy had this to say about Darcy Moore and his missed kicks out of defensive 50 over the last couple of weeks: “…he’s the interceptor, the rebounder – give it to the point guards…he doesn’t need...

I read this study this past week and the results should really give coaches food for thought in designing their practice sessions and plenty of actionable conclusions as well. It looked at the passing actions during 4v4 games of Soccer on a 30x20m pitch featuring junior players of various ages with the 3 different scoring...

You might remember last year I posted what I did for football training with my private school team where I was coaching the senior B team. I did it again this year but with the year 7 B team. We had 2 teams for the year 7’s so the B team was made up of...

Yes, I’m like a broken record but until I see meaningful change I’ll keep trying to get this message of a games-based training approach v a standing-behind-cones training approach across to as many coaches as possible. A games based-approach to training will result in: Many touches of the ball Decision-making under game like conditions Provides...

If you’re a regular consumer of my content then you should have some idea on my thoughts on junior footy and how it could be vastly improved for greater player retention and thus development. These notes come from an article and an actual study on the same subject focusing on young soccer star Erling Haaland...