This passage of play is what I'm not too worried about Geelong's records so far because for a 1st year team, they have pretty good cohesiveness and have some excellent passages of play at times.
Yesterday I highlighted a dodgy kick out of defense that out them right back under pressure when it resulted in a turnover that could have quite easily been avoided.
In a young team and a developing sport quite often players will go to back to their default brain (it's an actual thing) which lacks creativity and dare and just kick it down the line to a pack of players for another ball up.
Boring.
What Geelong do here is to again attempt to bring the ball out through the opposite side of the ground again, even after stuffing up the last one just minutes prior.
This deserves for credit to players for having the courage to try this again and also the coach for instilling the confidence in the players to try things even if they don't come off.
HINT #1 - You actually learn by failing and working out new strategies, not by succeeding
Here's the video of the full play:
The 2 big differences here are:
#1 - They get the ball into the hands of their better players/kicks/decision makers
and
#2 - That kick that failed the first time came off this time
What I liked mostly about it was the use of the width of the ground.
Is it easier to guard a small space or a large space?
No defence can guard the entire ground so developing your game model around this can greatly help any team at any level.
Teach your players how to keep that space open originally, then teach them the timing and positioning to be able to run into it when they need to and then teach the technical skill component.
It was only that the last Geelong player in the play fumbled the ball that there wasn't a scoring shot on offer.
HINT #2 - The number 1 difference between men's and women's footy? Fumbling v Clean Hands
Here's a look at that play using the whole ground.
Red X = Geelong Players
Purple Line = Ball Movement
Red Line = Running with the ball
Red Dots - Player Movement
In his book Game Changer Fergus Connolly talks about space and to create space in 1 part of the ground you must compress space in another.
In the case of footy it's sort of the opposite as the ball will often come from an area of compressed space, especially in women's football but also local/amateur men's football so the compressed space is already there.
That is when coaches talk about "spread" as once you get the ball then you need to find the open space and play through it as much as you can.
This means that the player with the ball and the player who wants/needs to receive the ball both looking for the whatever open space available and trying to utilise it.
Space creates Time.
Any defender will tell you that they love when they have players set up in front of them and stagnate, straight line ball movement from the opposition because then the forwards leading patterns become easily detectable.
When moving the ball quickly and wide, the defenders need to move and thus they cannot set up behind the ball as effectively which WILL open up space sooner or later.
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