Aussie Rules Training

Port pulled off a sorta upset by defeating the Hawks who were without a 1st string ruck after Wales pulled out pre-game and killing my Supercoach team at the same time. Also being a tier-1 mid in Bates, the Hawks just didn’t have the depth and although they were -21 in hot outs, they were...

A couple of weeks ago I posted part 1 of this series that looked at different motor learning concepts/terms and how they pertain to footy, specifically scheduling (block v random), explicit v implicit learning, focus of attention, challenge point framework and feedback. Today we look a bunch more as we go off the mantra, you...

North are, and will continue to be, North Melbourne – they’re more of a chance to go undefeated and win the premiership than not which s quite ridiculous. With Essendon and Port, Richmond have not been anywhere close to repeating their finals positioning from a season ago and even with encouraging performances in the last...

After yesterday’s center bounce clearance special game analysis post, we dove deeper into round 9 in our next 2 posts. The Dogs have now scored 60pts in 2 out of their last 3 games after being one of the lowest scoring teams in the AFLW so far this season – albeit against Collingwood and Essendon...

In past years there has only been a smattering of center bounce clearance set plays and most of them have been from North Melbourne who had the most dominant tap ruck in Emma King to go along with their star-studded midfield. Most teams now have established rucks rather then converted basketball, netball and volleyball players...

After posting 171 streamline activities with just a brief written description, I’ve now probably got more diagram activities in my files that I haven’t posted, then written one’s. Today is the 2nd whiteboard edition which are still streamlined but require a visual to get started, with activities #182 – #191 consisting a simple image with...

The Tigers still seem to have adequate talent on most, if not all lines, but have just looked so disconnected on the field that player quality didn’t really matter. Enter last week against Brisbane and they were actually in front at half time while being able to get the ball in their front half and...

GWS are a frustrating watch for me. The positive is that their brand is clear with a high use of handball (3rd) and uncontested possession (3rd) while also being 4th for disposal efficiency and 2nd for bounces – all on the surface looking like a fast ball movement, high scoring outfit. The negatives are that...

The Demons seem to be the 2nd best team in it but as mentioned yesterday, they’ve had a very suspect draw up until now as they finished in the bottom 8 last year so that’s not their fault and with Freo away, Sydney at home, Brisbane away and Geelong away we might get a bit...

The Hawks are 7-1, the same as this time last year, but doing it in a completely different way. After 8 games in 2024 they were 7-1, at a % of 190.6, averaging 62 points for and 31 against while averaging 38 inside 50’s per game. 2025 has been a very different beast all together...