I mentioned in a post last week that I analysed a bunch of games fro my local footy club from 2021 and 1 thing that was prevalent is a lack of patience with the footy in hand.
There's this thing in local footy, and it's always there for a variety of reason, that breakneck speed football is the only way to go and anytime you can go fast then do so, regardless of options around you or up the ground.
After analysing a bunch of Sydney Swans games too, their ability to get a mark that controls the play and to be extremely patient until their formation/s are in place, especially with such a young team, went a long, long way into nailing their player and ball movement style from 2021, resulting in 10 more wins than 2020.
Now it's the fact that you should never go fast but it's all in the decision making.
What I was finding in my local footy team's games was that we were playing on after marking the ball facing, the opposite goal, either by turning and burning or giving off a handball to a runner going past.
The new standing man on the mark rule actually means we can play on whenever we want and pretty much simply run past them, there is absolutely no need to veer off your line and cause a play on situation which after a season of this new rule, is now just a simple lack of game intelligence.
Lastly my much preferred option is to keep control of the ball by foot and mark over following this loop I notice plenty of times in the games I analysed:
Chaotic Play - Find a Mark to go into Slow Play and Gain Possession Control - Play On/Go Fast out of this temporary slow play that catches our midfielders and forwards totally out of position and a resulting turnover.
This is a pretty training activity that focuses on patience with the ball, hence it's name...
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