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:

D1/2/3 v A1/2/3 INTRODUCTORY TRAINING ACTIVITY

During the week I received a message from a local coach helping out at under 15's interleague level.

He was after something to teach D1/2/3 specifically as he has found that not a lot of them are even aware of the concept so he wanted to introduce it to those who hadn't and to build on the current knowledge of it for those that had.

I sent him the easiest way I know how to introduce the concept with a quick video each for A1/2/3 and then a separate one for D1/2/3.

The defense you're up against more than likely dictates the offense you can/need to use so I'd teach the defensive side of this first and keep the focus on that specifically - literally coach the defensive players in the activity and let the offensive players run free...

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ESSENDON/COLLINGWOOD + BRISBANE/ADELAIDE GAME ANALYSIS

The Bombers went full Essendon in the 2nd half Saturday, giving up 15 goals to 6 against a low-scoring Collingwood outfit after a couple of pretty solid showings but that's the inconsistentcies of a young team for ya.

The Pies were always going to be too professional against the Bombers with their elite organisation around the ground but I think they'll come back crashing to earth against the Hawks Thursday night.

At times, the Lions seem to breeze through games and then once-a-month just remind everyone who they really are and what you'll be contending with in August/September.

The Crows haven't really dealt with their ball movement issues from last year and being 13th placed with the 7th worst offense is a testament to that.

Today we look at:

• Colingwood at Center Bounce Clearance x 5
• Colingwood Creating Corridor Space
• Brisbane on Kick Out

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SYDNEY/BULLDOGS + HAWKS/GOLD COAST GAME ANALYSIS

The Swans are flying at the moment which concerns all us Sydney supporters as we've seen this story too many times before, yet this does seem different as we're doing without Gulden (which we couldn't do last year), and didn't see much of a drop off without Heeney this past weekend either, albeit against the Dogs reserves!

The Dogs are going to just have to try and hold on for the next month or so until they get their troops back with Freo home, Port away, Carlton and Melbourne home so they should be OK in the short term but it's hard to ee them really contending without Darcy as Naughton is your classic 2nd forward.

The Hawks are flying as much as the Swans are and winning in a variety of ways like they did last year with a 34 and 21 year old doing a lot of damage up forward for them along with their rock solid defense.

The Suns are struggling at the moment and even with Trac, Anderson and Rowell, are losing clearance (16th for clearance differential before this round and lost them again by 3 in this game.

Today we look at:

• Sydney Going Corridor x 2
• Collingwood at Center Bounce x 5
• Wizard Small Forward Craft
• Hawks Going Corridor
• Walter Work Rate
• Gold Coast Creating Corridor Space x 3

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