GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS - DEFENDING WITH NUMBERS

                                            

As I've mentioned previous times before, and what you may have noticed yourself, is that at local footy teams will defend with more players than they attack with most of the time,meaning they'll have extra's behind ball before they have extra's in front of the ball.

This is great for reducing the opposition from scoring but it can often undo your own ability to score as your outnumber advantage in 1 part of the ground results in an outnumber disadvantage in the other.

Last year the Sydney Swans mastered the ability to outnumber the opposition in multiple parts of the ground in the same play, taking it to a whole different level this year with forward pressure with how they use all 18 players on the ground in regards to specific positioning when their is a stoppage in a specific part of the ground and then how they move once ball is on the move.

This game/training scenario takes a slice of the game (as they all do) of defending with many more payers then the offensive are trying to score with and literally plays out as the game video shows.

Also within the game video I point out a few ways the Saints could have played out this scenario for a more sustainable method of transition offense and you can use these with your own players but if you do, keep them to yourself initially and try and guide them towards those solutions.

Give them some goes at this with no instruction, let them have a short discussion about how to better what they're doing, give them some goes at it and then if they're not edging towards what you think is more sustainable and closer to your normal game method, that's when you, the coach, come in as a facilitator of the environment with questions of why they are doping it this way, how else could they be doing it, what affordances are consistently arising in this scenario etc, edging towards your, or my, solutions.

GAME MOMENT...

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