FOOTY SECRETS #9- DEVELOP A GAME MODEL

I've been ranting about game models for a while thanks to Fergus Connolly and they are used extensively at elite level in various capacitites and if and when I coach I'll definitely be implementing one regardless of the grade or age level.

We all know of how Richmnond have a specific game plan that they play that no one else can really copy for a variety of reasons.

A game plan is what we're all familiar with and is a what I'd call a very general outline of what a team is trying to do, in Richmond's case they want to apply huge pressure on the ball carrier and keep the ball moving forward at all costs.

Those 2 things on their own don't really tell us, or the players, anything more then what it should look like - the end product.

The game model on the other hand literally lays out specific roles by each player and/or position to make the game plan possible.

You can't apply huge pressure if players aren't in close enough vacinity to do so.

You can't keep the ball moving forwards at all times if players are running towards the ball into the space you're trying to create, to allow constant forward movement.

At local/amatuer level the talent of 2 teams can be extremely 1 sided, there's no suprises there, but what the lesser talented team can have on the other is team cohesion.

The talented team is usually relying on it's talent more then anything else to get them wins, and when faced with 22 players on the same page, can often be found out for depth, when the top end players
can't have things there own way.

Last season my senior team didn't dramatically change a lot from 1 year to the next with a change of coach, albeit we changed from 1 coach to his son who had played 3 - 4 years for us already.

But the changes we did make, or the focus of emphasise, was more trained in most drills we did in some capacity and encouraged during training and games.

We wanted to acheive 1 aspect of the game to be able to do another and so on.

Here's what we wanted to do:

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