It shows a non-complicated and controlled way of giving direct feedback to a player in a 1-on-1 setting, something not used enough in local/amateur football circles for various reasons but I would suggest the suggest one is not really knowing how to go about it.
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Gain true inner sanctum access as James Worpel goes through his review with Sam Mitchell. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/IIuIz1b1zV
Here are my thoughts from the video in order from when they occurred.
DON'T TELL YOUR PLAYERS, ASK THEM
Noone see's the exact same thing so it's important to ask them what they saw, why they did this, what are you thinking at this point and coaching to what actually happened rather then what you want to happen.
I actually posted a blog on this last year (part 1 + part 2)on when I went through a similar process with one of my teammates after a one of our games but without the footage which makes it a bit tougher but it also gave me far more insight on why he did what he did.
THE GPS DISCUSSION
This was intriguing to me as I thought with all the sports science at AFL level that this would have been left in the dark ages but Mitchell asks "How did you feel?" and Worpel responds with "Best I've felt all year". Mitchell then asks "What did you do differently last week?" and Worpel says "Extra". Mitchell finishes by saying "That's what happens...".
Now without the correct context but doing 1 week of "extra's" does not physiologically show up in 4 days time, adaptation does not work that quick unfortunately but it can work just as effectively psychologically whether you really needed the extra work or not, knowing that you've done the work and you can handle whatever workload comes your way.
But if he needed extra work then why didn't the fitness staff give him that work anyway? Oh the rabbitt hole...
THE SPIN MOVE
In the AFLHP Fundamental Skills course I did the other week included a section on what is called "adding skills".
This refers to say, you have just collected the ball and have an opposition player right at you straight away and to avoid getting tackled you just slam the ball on the boot.
To make this more effective and advantageous for you and your team, what skill could you add to this scenario to do that?
You could add a side step to avoid them all together or being able to kick both the sides of the body to use whatever angle the opposition player has given you.
We've had a bloke play for our 2's spasmodically over the years who has a Rugby background and thus has the deadly side step they all have and I've always said to him I don't have that so it's definitely a skill I can add to my game even at this point of my career.
WHAT'S YOUR NEXT INVOLVEMENT
One of the biggest and not-even-thought-of pitfalls of cone to cone drills is that you are where you need to be all the time but on game days that is rarely the case - you need to know how to get there before you can actually be there.
This means you need to create scenarios/situations at training where this needs to happen.
THE KEEP YOUR FEET PART
Mitchell asks Worpel that is the not keeping your feet something he needs to remind of him of and that reminds me of something I read not long ago where you should ask your players if there is anything they specifically want you, as coach, to do or ask before, during and after games that will assist in them maintaining their performance and if it's good enough for Sam Mitchell then it's good enough for me!
BACK YOURSELF
If you get through the contest then go!
MAKE IT LIGHT HEARTED
It's not really a feedback rather than a discussion is it?
Even in the what of battle Mitchell always played with a smile and that will carry through his coaching career by the looks of it the way he keeps this light and jovial ("you cost us a goal, he, he").
RATHER THEN JUST WORKING FOR THE SAKE OF WORKING
Doing a bit of a reverse from the GPS point above he actually applauded Worpel for sort of strategically resting and not just working for the sake of working which is great advice - if you're caught out of position and can't impact the play immediately then similar to the next involvement point above, how can turn this into an advantage?
DON'T WASTE DISTANCE
Mitchell says something along the lines of "If you didn't go back behind the mark where could you have gotten the ball to" which I assume is another 20 - 25m deeper which could be the difference between a goal and a nothing if you get the ball around half forward - definitely something a coach needs to tell his players and train for to make it happen on game day.
VIDEO YOUR OWN GAMES IF YOU CAN
I know that all senior leagues in metropolitan Melbourne now record all their games and make them available to all clubs but if you can get a video camera and someone to handle it then I would definitely encourage all teams to video their games, and ressies as possible.
Watching the senior games back from last year that I played here showed me how different things can look when you're right there with the ball and what they can look like from somewhere else on the ground or even from a coaching/spectator viewpoint.
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