SYDNEY v CASEY VFL GAME ANALYSIS

                     

The Sydney Swans/Casey Demons VFL game was televised over the weekend so I thought I'd give it a look to see the level of AFL/VFL alignment in regards to game modelling for the Swans.

It's safe to say that the alignment is very good with a huge preference to handball chain through the middle of the ground to great success, much like the senior team at the moment.

 For the record both teams have lost just 1 game each this season.

This is great to see as it means when there are injuries to best 23 players, it's pretty much a plug and play for the VFL guy coming in and you can minimise the drop off in individual and team performance because if you lose a top 5 player from the best 23, you're usually replacing them with player 24 - 28 from the VFL.

2025 presented all sorts of injury issue for the Swans with the big one being Gulden where we were 6-8 without him and then 6-3 with him when he returned but so far this year we've been able to cover him and the AFL/VFL alignment foes a long way to accomplishing that.

Today we look at:

• Sydney Creating/Utilising Corridor Space x 2
• Sydney Rebound 50
• Sydney Defensive 50 Throw In
• Sydney Defensive 50 Ball Up
• Sydney Kick Out
• Sydney Wing Play

WB/FREO + ADE/PA + ESS/BRIS + SYD/MELB GAME ANALYSIS

 

Today we look at:

• Bulldogs Kick Out
• Port Creating Corridor Space
• Essendon Defense Fail
• Brisbane Kick Out Transition
• Brisbane Kick Trigger
• Brisbane Transition Offense
• Melbourne at Center Bounce x 3

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COLLINGWOOD v HAWTHORN GAME ANALYSIS

Yesterday I isolated some Nick Watson clips and today I deliover the rest of the game.

The Pies have seemed to weathered their lack-of-scoring storm, managing 88, 137 (v Blues/Essendon respectively) and then 93 against a stingy Hawthorn outfit.

18 scoring shots for 15.3 from just 34 inside 50's was a Fly masterclass as they were able to pull the back 6 apart for the Hawks and not allow Battle, Barrass and Sicily to 3rd man up intercept mark.

The Hawks let 1 slip though with 13.15 from 62 entries - 28 scoring shots to 18 - to draw so they'll be kicking themselves (but not goals obviously).

Today we look:

• JDG Lane Running
• Hawks Forward Press Defense
• Houston Overlap
• Weird Formation from Both Teams
• Collingwood Corridor Positioning
• Hawks Skinny Wing in Defensive 50
• Collingwood Kick Out
• Colingwood Rebound 50

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NICK WATSON v COLLINGWOOD GAME ANALYSIS

I had a close look at the Pies/Hawks game from the weekend and came away with 12 clips, 4 of which were of the Wizard so I'm breaking them up into 2 sperate videos.

I'm loving what he's doing this year and if you're a small forward at local level you HAVE to be watching how he goes about it.

He has pace that not everyone has but his positioning and movement patterns can be studied and replicated by almost anyone + it helps to have a coach that allows you to almost single handedly focus on small forward craft in actual games to simplify things.

What did help his cause though was Collingwood rarely locking onto him during transitional contests of which we can see in some of these videos below, and at forward 50 stoppages when they had the opportunity to do so, his constant movement caused all sorts of issues for the Pies defenders!

Check it out: