The first clip shows Geelong’s kick out team defense formation which is nothing ground braking but it does show the discipline players need within it to give what you’re prepared to give and take away what you want to take away, and any deviation from that from just 1 player can break the entire system...
It’s always a treat watching North Melbourne AFLW as they move the ball the best of anyone in the competition every year in my opinion. The make the ground wide, they make the ground long and they spread the defense which gives them relatively easy and open teammates to kick to which doesn’t require huge...
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...
A quick video of 5 things I noticed from last nights AFLW season opener between the Dees and the Pies. I look at the first center bounce clearance, Collingwood using run from behind players, Collingwood’s quick defensive transition moment in their own forward 50, Collingwood needlessly altering tempo and Melbourne creating space off a free...
This situation a junior football league in Melbourne has got itself into, has been doing the social media rounds this week #EXCLUSIVE: The AFL Integrity Unit has been inundated with complaints from angry parents over a controversial decision to shake up junior footy finals, to boost inclusivity. @reid_butler9 #9News pic.twitter.com/kJrEENhgcQ — 9News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) August...
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...
AFLW kicks off this weekend and as usual I’m super-pumped as more footy is always a positive, especially when the AFLW season runs past the AFLM season. I watched every game of every season so far and have analysed games to some degree for all of those 7 seasons as well. In the last 2...
These notes come from a study I read a week or 2 ago about the use of play form activities during practice, looking at the why, how and benefits of doing so. Precisely simulates the properties of competition games in customised settings (contexts) designed to provide many opportunities for the emergence of focused actions/sequences of...
I’ve highlighted this a few times this season but this is maybe the best example of it that’s been captured so far. There are training activities that Collingwood use to train this coming forward action that you can find in both the Pre and In-season Collingwood Training Activities manuals that you can find out more...
I found this in my files from a couple of years ago which is an idea around training that is game simulated. It’s definitely not something you’d do early in your pre-season but only after players have had the chance to get to know the game model and also have a fair idea of what...