In his book Game Changer, Fergus Connolly has this image:
At anytime of the game, you are in 1 of these moments.
When developing a game model you can put structures in place for each game moment so your team becomes predictable to each other which in turn provides more time for decision making and and increased level of technical skill.
I posted about Geelong earlier this week and yes they were getting peppered in back 50 for a lot of the game against Adelaide but here's a perfect example of how game model development can assist any team at any level.
Geelong has control of the footy deep in their back 50 at an actual stoppage, so we're talking complete control here - the Geelong player can choose any option she wants to in this situation with the entire ground in front of her.
To utilise ground width she plays on laterally so a good move there.
As the camera angle changes you can now see what's up ahead and what teammates (red) she (purple) has to kick to.
As we say in footy "they're out" but whether through skill error or poor decision making, unfortunately the kick goes to a 50/50 contest which is the squiggly line in the bottom right corner and as you can see in the video it results in a turnover and another inside 50 for the Crows.
Through the development of the game model, defensive macro moments can be "planned out" for the most part with the order being for that kick from the last line of defense having to go as wide as you can.
In the image above you can see that she had a lateral option and a much wider, and unmarked option, closer to the boundary line.
One of those options would have been a far better choice.
If she had kicked to the lateral player than they were most definitely away as the Adelaide player just on the marker 50 spot would have had to man that mark.
The Geelong player in the bottom left further est away from the ball carrier would have been unmarked and another short kick could have been performed which would have dragged that Crows player who contested the mark over there to man that mark as well.
Then there was still a 2 v 1 Geelong's way after that if you count the players right at the end of that contest who were there.
The game model would have said to kick short and/or wide and player can set up for that as soon as Geelong get possession of the ball in the back 50 and that then allows players further up the ground to start their player movement and positioning to keep possession and meters covered in their favour.
Later on in that game they did exactly that which I'll detail tomorrow.
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