Aussie Rules Training

As is becoming customary at this point, there was zero physical (46 v 60 tackles) or tactical (8 goals from 49 entries v 17 from 60) response from the Blues in this game and not that I see sacking Voss will do anything at this point, but it’s a long tail to the season if...

The forward press defense was popularised by Richmond during their premiership years where Sydney started using it very soon after and now a bunch of clubs use it regularly. This needs to be a full team mentality as every player needs to be all-in on this for it to work, otherwise huge holes will be...

Not much was expected from this game over the weekend but the provided a very good showing of themselves, even if the Pies were trying a short kicking game that worked into the Eagles hands as far as pressuring was concerned. As always though it’s all in the consistency of effort and execution for the...

I broadened my technical horizon’s during the week and with how long the Cognition in Elite Footballers series went, thought I’d see what ChatGPT would do to it and mucked around with it for the first time. It’s still very detailed but an obvious shorter and abbreviated version was spat out and here’s what it...

Today we finish off round 15 with the 2nd part of the Collingwood/St Kilda game where we look at: Saints Not Going Corridor Option Lipinski Lane Running Nick Daicos at Center Bounce Collingwood Going Corridor Rebounding from Defensive 50 Colingwood Layered Defense but Saints Handle It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx18-qNGbH8  ...

In part 2 of 3 this week we finish off the Sydney/Port game and start on the Collingwood/St Kilda game, specifically discussing: Another Gulden kick Forwards always stay active and look for gaps Heeney pushing forward Collingwood at center bounce Saints not using numbers in transition Clean v Not Clean...

Actually got the chance to watch a fair bit of footy this weekend as opposed to the past few resulting in 18 clips to go through over 3 posts this week. Today we look at Geelong v Brisbane then some of Port v Sydney, specifically: The Cats being too aggressive with their ball movement against...

The 10th and final installment in this series again looks at stage 3 in cognition of elite footballers. If you have read this series deeply enough then you should have come across so many pointers on how players become elite and you should now be able to devise training plans in accordance with the content...