Watching along I noticed a few things that I thought I would highlight that having a game model would solve, and hopefully happening at all.
The first image here is in the last 60secs of the Geelong and Collingwood game with the Pies down by 1 point and peppering their inside 50.
What we have here is a Collingwood transition offensive moment.
The ball has just come from the area in the bottom right hand corner of the image and Collingwood have the ball at the "X" as marked.
What happened was that the player kicked it directly back to where it came from.
What could have happened though?
As you can see I've marked out free Collingwood players as 1, 2 and 3.
1 principle of player positioning in a game model is that to open up space in 1 area, you must compress the space of another area.
In this case both teams have compressed the bottom right corner and you can see a full half of the inside 50 with literally no one in it.
A simple switch of direction with this kick to players 1 and 2 and then onto player 3 would allow an easier kick as the players are pretty much on their own - a great result for a league still in it's infancy where skill level still needs a lot of work.
The shift in ball movement would also force the other Collingwood players forward of the ball to move laterally as well and that's where options 4 and 5 come in who could receive the ball from players 1, 2 or 3 10 - 15m out from goal if the ball was moved fast enough.
Game Over.
The second and third images are from the Adelaide and Western Bulldogs game.
The game moment has just changed from an Adelaide transition defense into transition offense with the ball movement being the purple arrow.
In red are the Adelaide players and in blue is the space behind them in their forward 50 which looks awfully planned from what I can see.
What a lot of players will do is run to the danger spot (forward corridor) even though the ball is still at least 2 kicks away from getting there.
The Crows do a great job of not doing that and holding the space.
The Crows player marks the ball and then kicks to the bottom right hand corner of the image to a contest which takes us to the second image.
Notice the longish red line in the top left corner
The color key again is purple for ball movement, red for Adelaide players and blue for open space.
The ball has just been contested in the bottom right corner of the image and quickly roved by a Crows player (1 of the 2 "red" players in that corner).
The 2 Adelaide players on the left of the image are the same 2 players shifting over from the opposite half forward flank in the previous image.
It may have taken them 8 - 10secs, maybe longer, to get across to the open area in the forward 50 so that shows great patience and trust by the other Adelaide players not to just run into the open space and draw their defenders in there with them, probably resulting in a kick to 15 players in congestion if they did.
After roving the pack, the Adelaide player has plenty of space to kick to knowing that teammates have been instructed to move into that space now that ball is closer to goal.
The end result? An easy mark and goal.
The Crows actually repeated this game moment again later in the game so they seem well drilled in what they want to do when ball movement is occurring in a specific type of way.
Game Models aren't really about set plays which are more about what you do when you have the ball but more about what you do off the ball to create time and space as well as giving all players guidelines on what's expected of them at ALL times, not just when the ball is in their area.
Remember I'm after 5 local / amateur football coaches to test a template of a game model I've made up which is definitely something you could use THIS SEASON, once we fully develop it.
I don't tell you what tactics to use or anything like that - it's YOUR tactics detailed and organised into a Game Model.
I'm starting with a coach already this week and you should really get this organised before you have any intraclub or practice matches so let me know if you're interested.
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