Below is a 14min video detailing 10 plays from the Sydney Swans form the 2nd half of their match against Fremantle from last Saturday, a season defining win that could result in a top 4 finish and allow for a genuine tilt at a Grand Final, 2 years removed from winning 5 games back in...
This game scenario doesn’t really play out as such in the game video but it started to before the siren went and halted play. Regardless, just the 1 kick-mark option alone had the huge potential to set off dominoes, a basketball term, where once you draw 1 defender, you can use the initial outnumber to...
Here’s another 4 training activities that I’ve used with my school team so far this season. Some of the activities are progressions of the same activity from the week/s prior and some train a specific aspect that we wanted to focus on from the previous week. As always we are dependent on training numbers between...
The 3 Zones of Football present in every single action during a game but also ever-shifting because as soon as the ball moves, players move and each of the zones changes location depending on how far the ball has traveled. As the zones shift the same, or different players, from the previous action will fill...
Feedback, and everything it entails which we’ll unpack below, is a real major driver in community football and can make or break the coaches ability to get what they want, and what they can, out of their respective groups. We often think of feedback as the image suggests, a good old fashion bake from Ron...
Here are the 4 training activities I used for training session #2 with my school footy group a few months ago, that builds off of session #1 posted last week. 1 of the secrets of building adaptable players is to present activities that are similar but not completely different so they get exposure to similar...
I’ve been incredibly busy with school holidays and thus peak coaching work so I haven’t posted for a while so here’s a free post on how this year I’ve taken the jump into coaching school footy in the AGSV system which I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. I’ll post all of these training sessions like this going forward...
Once you get your head around implementing small sided games for most of your training time then it’s time to think about how you can build them around specific aspects of your game model. Like cone to cone skill drills, which doesn’t train skill, it trains technique, we tend to train team tactics, strategies and...
This game has a focus on decision making, holding the football and only taking 100% options (for the most part). One of the biggest issues in community football of pretty much every level is the wanting to go super-fast as much as possible and the age-old mantra of “your first option is always your best...
I love the zone set up of under 8’s footy and I believe it could, and probably should be, used in some shape or form in under 10’s or even 12’s footy, especially if we’re gonna roll with using full ground games for kids that can only kick 15m. This game uses zones similar to...