A pretty big focus I bring to my coaching is to slow down either through the ball carrier purposefully taking time to dispose the ball from a mark, or as a team to possess the ball using 100% options for as long as they can.
All I say during these activities is basically " find the easiest kick you can do", a skill in compartmentalisation (a future post in this series).
Watching through a bunch of our senior games over the break I found 19 instances of kicking to an outnumber and 17 instances of going fast when we should have gone slow.
Reasons I put these down to included your structure of player movement (which determines your ball movement) and basic player awareness which can be a multitude of things I won't go into now.
Ultimately though Ia think this all starts at junior level with coaches and parents pleading with their team to "go, go, go" once they have the ball, creating a sense of chaos that might not need to be there while making every touch of the football time sensitive when not every possession is, or needs to be.
In the moment his can cause a lot of potential forward thrusts an scoring opportunities to go missing but can also instill itself in player's mindset when they move to senior level football, as shown above.
Here's a quick video from my own coaching showing a prime example of a play which needed slowing down to score, but wasn't and how slowing down would have worked better...
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