The best round of football for the year, Preliminary Final round is upon us and by jeez it should be a cracker so I thought I would gather some notes from my files in regards to the different aspects of game day. This will be a 3 part series (Pre-Game today, In-Game tomorrow and Post-...
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT: HOW TO CHALLENGE YOUR PLAYERS
This is taken from an article in my files but again I didn’t note who it was by but lays out a process using an athlete-centered approach and in it they outline a basic progression of pushing your players to higher levels over and over again for continued long term development. It all starts with...
MIXED SQUARES TRAINING DRILL (3 DRILLS)
Players Required: 35 – 40 in total (but alter numbers and area size to fit your training numbers) Balls Required: 3 in total Space Required: 65 x 45m Drill Level: Easy to Moderate Pretty simple here. Drill #1 – 4v4 handball in the smaller 10 x 10m square that could be even smaller to be...
WANT TO GET DRAFTED? HERE’S HOW…
Mid last year I took part in a course ran by the Lindsay Gilbee Elite Kicking Academy and as part of that we received a talk from Simon Dalrymple. Simon was the recruiting manager behind the Bulldogs premiership team in 2016 and is now the Melbourne-based recruiter the all might Sydney Swans (KPF please Simon!)....
FORWARDS RUNNING PATTERN DRILL + PROGRAM
Local/amateur football training is extremely GENERAL where everyone does the same skill work and the same running work regardless of positional requirements. I’ll give this a pass “for now” because that’s how it’s always been done but from now on it’s not good enough and coaches need to do better. With time being maybe the...
4v1 RONDO PROGRESSIONS/LAYERS (7 OPTIONS)
I’ve posted plenty of Rondo progressions before and here are some more. Rondo drills are easy to set up and easy to constrain so training doesnlt need to be stop start to reintroduce totally different drills for 2hrs. You could use 3 – 5 layers for the single set up for agood 20 – 30min...
3 TEAM 4v2 TRAINING DRILL
When you’re the single coach in charge of 30 – 40 players at once, training drills that can be used in a multitude of ways and thus requiring just the initial set up of that drill, is a life saver. Between having players go out to drills, come back in, have a drink and “do...
USING A DIGITAL VIDEO GAMES APPROACH TO JUNIOR SPORT
If you’re a parent of a child under the age of 18 then you know the addictiveness of video games in all their formats. On top of that us parents want our kids off video games but what we need to stop and think about even more is why they are so driven to them...
SKILL ACQUISITION TWITTER THREAD
Twitter has become my go-to social media platform these days and last week I stumbleed across a length thread on skill acqusition and what the biggest bang for your buck is in relation to it. Here are just some of the responses from varous coaches around the world from all different sports: Fail to learn...
ONE ON ONE FOOTBALL COACHING
In the last couple of weeks I’ve joined up as a coach on the One on One Football platform to provide private coaching to footballers of any age but 12 – 18yrs of age specifically. I believe most coaches do 1 on 1 sessions but I’m used to training small groups in my personal...