LATERAL KICK TO OPTION FROM BEHIND This is very similar to the handball option from behind in the previous post and is used a lot by Sydney, with 9 handballs and 7 kicks like this in last week’s game alone – that’s 15 extra play-on opportunities that’s sure to unsettle any defense by not giving...
As a long time Swans fan since the mid-80’s I was reasonably happy after yesterday’s demolition of the West Coast Eagles so after watching yesterday’s game I thought I’d take a closer look at some things from the game. I actually have 2 pages of pointers I collected and I’ll give you 12 of them...
These points come from an article from David Sharkey, an English teacher and Rugby coach from the UK, but is relevant to coaching for any sport. At the local level a lot of coaches spend so much time making player changes on their coaching boards they sometimes fail to pay attention to other aspects of...
This is just a little twist on a basic half ground game with 2 even teams. Usually it works like basketball and bring the ball out of defense to the middle of the ground then you play transition offense to get it back into the forward 50 and score. Nothing extra ground breaking for this...
I’ve been posting a fair bit on the psychological aspect of performance lately and 1 thing I say a lot is that don’t just think thoughts, but write them down to make them “real”. I can almost guarantee that by writing it down, which obviously takes way longer to do then to simply think it,...
Skill development at the top of all sport pyramids and footy is no different. The ability to attain, stabillise, replicate and then add variability to those foundation skills is what seperates us from the elites. A lot of local/amateur players have endurance, speed and strength but they often alck the skill required to compete consistently...
What we have here is a drill that includes 4 specific scenario kicks used a lot during a game so is very representative of what happens on a Saturday. It combines 4 different scenarios into the single activity so players need to perform different kicks within the same drill but specific kicks that are required...
In all grades of footy, but especially youth and junior levels of football, building competitiveness and aggressiveness can be extremley hard, not that everyone HAS to have both of these qualities at those young ages but if they can start told develop them then my personal opinion is that they will be more likely to...
All sports contain 4 co-actives being psychological, physical, technical and tactical and they are all entwined where the decision you make to solve a particular problem via 1 specific co-active, is dependant on where the other 3 are at at that point in time, and this is an ever changing landscape throughout 4 quarters of...
Noone celebrates goals like one of my favourite Swannies Tom Papley and although it looks like showboating, if you were to dive a bit deeper, it’s about generating enthusiasm and celebrating small wins, both which help build great confidence within a game and throughout the entire team. And as you can see in the image...