I made this up late last year based on a specific but popular ball movement option of using the quarterback position at the stoppage.
Utilising the quarterback player/s efficiently and effectively is a team strategy over individual, as it requires great discipline to initially set it up then also to hold your position, create the space required and then to time your player movement in time with the ball movement.
The quarterback play on it's own isn't of much use and is why you might not see a lot of it at lower levels of footy as it's a possession method of football where a lot of lower teams still go the territory route, not that's either is right or wrong.
What I've put together here is a 6 video, 3 part series on how this can work, showing the requirments of all 18 players on the ground.
Usually teams would organise the quarterback then an outlet kick but not plan any further then that, severly short changing the benefits of what playing the quarterback model can provide and the options it can open up for you and your team.
Here's the structure for the week:
Monday - Starting Positioning (made available in the coaching/training articles option with the other posts being available in the coaching drills option)
Wednesday - Midfielders at the Stoppage
Thursday - Offense from Stoppage
Friday - Defense from Stoppage + Transition Offense
Today's video is on starting positioning which is crucial for this to be able to work.
If players don't assume the correct positioning early enough then the space or player availability required to carry this out might not be there and you'll be playing a 18 man game plan with 14 players, leaving holes in your game plan.
At local/amateur level I understand that the senior coach is often in charge of everything and taking time to break these tactical aspects down might not seem to be as effective as "training" but you can never assume players know what you're talking about exactly because there's 4 parts to any message:
1 - What you said
2 - What the player thought you said
3 - What you think the player understands from what you said
4 - What the player actually understood from what you said
Looking at that you can easily see how miscommunication can occur so my suggestion is to have a quick theory session on this at the end of the first training session of the week while also making it available in a group chat/video to all players.
Then in the 2nd taining session of the week you start off with the theory again and go straight out to practice it at a very basic level where you might have 1 coach or senior player in charge of a line each (mids/backs/forwards), and they run each line as the ball moves around at half pace.
As players pick up the game plan you can move the ball quicker.
Once it has become predictable to each player and everyone knows what their movement needs to be and at what time, you can add defenders in.
Initially I would place defenders in 1 line only starting from the midfield, to our forward line and then the backline.
The backline could even be trained seperately with some mids as you want train a high ball coming in and then spreading off the intercept mark.
Once all lines can do what's required in specific situations then you go to a full ground variation at full pace with defenders.
Again I'd scatter a smaller number of defenders in each line initially (3 - 4 should be fine first up) then I'd go 1on1 in the lines so the mids would each have an opponent with the backs and forwards unopposed, theb move the defenders around lines.
If you've got the numbers then 18v15 - 18 is the last step.
Yes it's a bit of micro-managing as your detailing what each player is to do that will take time and seem hard when you start out, but the benefits you'll see later in games during the year can be dramatic with all players in tune with each other.
My senior team ran a loose version of this last year and resulted in a premiership in a division 4 competition showing how this can tear lower level teams up if your team be discplined enough to do it.
We really started to nail it about 6 weeks into the season and won 11 in a row or something blowing the other 2 contending teams out of the water in that time.
Going back to 1 of the Kobe posts from last week, productive creativity is born out of structure so once players al know the game plan, where players will be and so on, then your most creative players have a chance to really impact games, not just do 1 good thing every game and that's it.
If you've got any questions on any of these videos then please send them through and I'm happy to chat about this if you want something more in-depth.
Here's video #1:
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