COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 3 - MIDFIELDER RUNNING PATTERNS SNEAK PEAK

                                                     

We all know that the quickest way to goal is through the corridor so it stands to reason that Your ball movement and/or player positioning, needs to be developed in accordance to that, and Collingwood do it better than anyone.

They are willing, and literally coached, to go corridor from anywhere on the ground at pretty much any stage of the game and if you watch them closely enough (or through my analysis videos), they care not what opposition, but what teammates, they have there.

If it looks like a 50/50 split from both teams then that's good enough for them and if it's an outnumber advantage, then they'll actually get chewed out by their coaches for not taking it!

It's literally refreshing and has taken me to the point where I only watch games with teams that will attempt corridor at some point, otherwise it's just the same football played by different teams.

The angled in and out running pattern is a tactic that Collingwood use on slow play and from almost anywhere on the ground.

It's pretty much a set play where the ball carrier holds the ball for the maximum amount of time which ensures time for everyone to get to where they need to be.

That means 1 - 2 tall targets to actually kick to, with those targets creating a drop zone corridor side of them that the ball gets kicked to.

What this means is that any spoil or dropped mark will also go into the corridor, and often they'll not go the mark, and instead tap it down in that area (Mason Cox a main player here), but it also means you just need a decent contested player in the air for this to work for you.

On a kick out especially, the midfielders will run in towards the contest on the same angle from the middle of the goals to;

1 - Protect from the opposition coming right back out the front of the contest and into goals if they regain possession,

and;

2 - If they win possession, or the aerial contest player knocks the ball down where they want it, they stream off corridor while forming running lanes and that's the running handball chain off half back that the Pies are so well-known for.

There are 2 main ways this plays out in a game that we look at video:

• OFF A KICK OUT
• OFF A M50 CLOSED KICK

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