AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 5 - GOLD COAST v PORT ADELAIDE + ADELAIDE v GWS

                                        

Video x 9mins.

Includes:

• Loose Checking from Port Adelaide Defenders
• Gold Coast Bullying at Center Bounce
• GWS Not Taking the 100% Option

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 5 - WB/NM + COLL/ESS + SYD/ESS + CARL/MELB + RICH/BRIS

Video x 13mins.

Includes:

• Forward Self Preservation
• Collingwood Stoppage Goal
• Montana Ham-Balls (see what I did there?)
• Play On Handballs Still an Issue
• Brisbane Inside 50's

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 5 - WC/FREO + GEE/STK

Video x 15mins.

Includes:

• West Coast Inside 50 Structure
• Freo Poor Spacing from Contest
• St Kilda Defense Worries
• The Difference Between Average and Excellent Leaders

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 4 - FULL ROUND (FREE!!)

School holidays is my busiest time with footy clinics all over Melbourne but I also had to pick up our new car in between PT shifts yesterday so I'm just getting to this round today.

I'll be out all day tomorrow as well with pre-Grand Final activities so I'll post 2 videos that cover the full round of AFLW from last weekend.

There were quite a few games played in very hospitable conditions last weekend which I tend to not really review because there's not a lot of tactical stuff going, they're more just territory games in very wet conditions so I've only touched on 5 games.

VIDEO 1 - North Melbourne v Geelong + GWS v West Coast + Gold Coast v St Kilda x 11mins

Includes:

• North Melbourne Team Defense
• GWS v West Coast Inside F50's
• St Kilda Possession Footy

VIDEO 2 - Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs + Melbourne v Brisbane x 11mins

Includes:

• Lamb Stoppage Goal...Again!
• Hore Forward Craft
• Brisbane Going Too Fast and Too Slow

4v4+2 TRAINING ACTIVITY

                                              

This is a pretty simple possession focused activity that can be performed in smaller area with handball or bigger area's with kicking.

The main difference to these types of training activities is that...

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CRAIG MCRAE TOP 25

                                         

Craig McRae has been a breath of fresh air in season 2022.

He's taken a traditionally unwatchable Collingwood team and turned them into a must watch for fans of any team but more importantly, a winning team as well.

Even though I'm a Swans man and we're facing this very same team for a spot on the Grand Final, as a coach he's not afraid to "give" a bit extra in his press conferences, which these 25 gems have been taken from.

I love John Longmire but his pressers are quite repetitive but he's been in the game for over 10 years and has probably had enough of press conferences and gets in and out with minimal fan-fair as much as he can.

Have a read and let me know which one/s resonate the most with you and how you can use/expand on it in your own coaching or playing.

1. Don’t reflect on where it went wrong, reflect on when it was going right and what you were doing to make it so
2. Repeat behaviors
3. On last quarter drop offs - it’s not a fitness thing it’s being able to do our style for long enough when team’s are trying to stop you at the same time
4. We had a lot of long shots and long shots become long points
5. We get caught up in the emotion of going well and the excitement with that and then "oh I forgot to do my job for 2mins, for 30secs at center bounce"
6. On running this game out - it’s not a GPS thing it’s about being a bit more calmer in the chaos, not over-committing to the ball and getting our balance all out of whack
7. Take more risks when we’re down, let’s be braver and be prepared to fail having a crack at it instead of sitting back on our hunches
8. We wanna make mistakes, we wanna bounce back and it's what you do next
9. We’d rather lose by 10 than die wondering
10. Sometimes it takes someone just to be brave enough to say "I see a Richmond jumper but I’m still prepared to go there"
11. You can play with a runny nose and still carry out your role
12. I’ve always been a believer in players and give them everything, and believe in them for as long as you can
13. Believe in people and show faith in people, before they’ve got it
14. We teach our players to spend time over the ball so you’re likely to get some front on contact and we wanna keep the ball in front of us
15. I like to revel in the moment to be honest, quite often you get drawn to somewhere you don’t need to be yet
16. At half time if the game was finished and we had to review ourselves, how’d we go?
17. If you’re processed driven like we are, we don’t talk about winning too often, we talk about winning habits
18. Belief can be powerful
19. Value the little things as games are won by small margins
20. I’ll always focus on the positives but we’ve got work to do
21. Belief is built through evidence
22. We’re learning so many lessons as a group, we win today from lessons learnt from losing to West Coast and we win last week from lessons learnt from the loss to Geelong
23. I like to be really measured when things aren’t going our way and then show the emotion when they are
24. We wanna act like winners, the siren goes and there’s half a dozen of our guys lying on the ground - that’s not a winner - we lost the game, we’re not losers
25. We encourage the players around the kicker to see what they’re doing with their eyes and their feet

EDIT - Added after Collingwood best and fairest speech...
    

    26. "Winners Only" was the mantra and when you walk into the 4 walls you wouldn't know if we                   won or lost
    27. What great fight we had and we rehearsed it. Day 1 of pre-season, 1on1's, pair up, you win you               stay in, you lose you go to the back of the line

AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 3 - AFLW FILM REVIEW: CARLTON v PORT ADELAIDE+ ST KILDA v MELBOURNE + RICHMOND v HAWTHORN + WEST COAST v ESSENDON

Video x 16mins.

Includes:

• Multiple Poor Play On Handballs
• Multiple Forward 50 Leading Patterns
• Poor v Good Inside 50 Formations

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 3 - BRISBANE v GOLD COAST

Video x 13mins.

Includes:

• Unbalanced Gold Coast Spread
• Gold Coast Running into Space
• Gold Coast Playing to Fast

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 3 – ADELAIDE v NORTH MELBOURNE + SYDNEY v GWS + GEELONG v COLLINGWOOD

Video x 15mins.

Includes:

• North Melbourne Switch
• Sydney D1/2/3
• Geelong Not Using Extra Numbers

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 3 - WESTERN BULLDOGS v FREMANTLE

10min Video.

Includes:

• Western Bulldogs Impatient Ball Movement
• Fremantle Play On Handball
• +1 Battle

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STUDY NIGHT - PLAYFUL PRACTICE + MOTOR SKILL LEARNING

                                                     

For the life of me I cannot find this study again in my search history but there's almost 1,000 words of notes I've taken from it that you can use in your own coaching for season 2023 and beyond.

Traditional coaching practices need to die so be a pioneer of the revolution of local/amateur coaching!

• Practice distribution, constant v variable practice, scheduling of variable practice and part-whole v whole practice are all related to the physical structure of practice and can be easily controlled by manipulating parameters such as time, spacing, number of practice variable's, the interleaving of practice trials and the components of the tasks
• Deliberate practice is  designed to improve the current level of performance and requires focused attention, immediate feedback, repetition and high levels of effort but is neither inherently enjoyable nor intrinsically motivating and often frustrating, like a workman-like approach
• Deliberate play involves activities that are intrinsically motivating, provide immediate gratification and are designed to maximise enjoyment, informally regulated by modified rules established/enforced and further modified by the participants themselves
• Early exposure to deliberate play to later engagement in deliberate practice has a beneficial effect on talent development in sport
• Exposure to playful practice and specifically playful attitude towards practice has intrinsic value regardless of the learner’s stage of learning/skill development
• Play is the opposite of work and all forms of play tend to follow exploration with a structure that is highly variable and appearing to have low purpose yet it is intrinsically motivating and involves experimentation with objects, the environment, your own body/motor patterns and/or with other organisms
• Preoccupation during play appears to be driven more by means rather then ends (goals) with a combo of motor patterns more greater than any other form of behavior
• Is adaptive as it increases behavioral variability which leads to the discovery of novel/innovative action patterns/combination of behaviors that can propagated to other individual's via observational learning
• Stirs imagination/encourages a sense of adventurousness
• Pressure free context maximises variability because it minimises the consequences of 1’s actions and therefore risk, thus encouraging an extension of behavioral limits
• Wide variation in behavior patterns then provides a base upon which selection can operate
• Benefits are generally realised over the long term which is why most coaches tend to err towards structured play that looks like short term improvement, but is rarely retained for when it matters most
• Can enhance learning via enhanced exploration where we must perceive in order to move, but we must move in order to perceive
• Skill acquisition should focus on how performers can develop exploratory behavior rather than learn a specific movement
• Typically precedes play but does not disappear once play emerges
• Mindfulness is a flexible state of mind in which we are actively engaged in the present noticing new things and being sensitive to context
• Play is almost always mindful
• Playful practice might be the most reliable way to encourage mindfulness
• A mindful attitude can enhance learning
• De-emphasises explicit instruction where learners are rarely exposed to explicit instruction during play
• Explicit instructions degrade the ability to adapt to novel task varibility/changes in context
• Learners given explicit instruction about when to apply force to the platform of a ski simulation performed much more poorly during practice compared to those receiving no instructions and were being evaluated
• Explicit instruction leads to a narrow focus of attention and discourages exploration
• May also impede learning about task dynamics/critical sources of intrinsic information by increasing the information processing load and the demands on attention
• May force the learner to only focus on finding the correct solution to a motor problem leading to them repeat this solution and fitting a square peg in a round hole
• De - emphasise on goals results in implicit learning = incidental learning = lots of what we learn/remember is learned without conscious awareness or as a side effect of pursuing explicit goals
• Non-specific goals leads to a rapid learning of essential characteristics of the problem structure
• Attention to previous visited problem states/moves associated with those states is important for schema acquisition
• Means-end problem solving imposes a high cognitive load as you have to keep so many pieces of information in mind such as goal state, current problem state, the relationship between the goal/current state and relations between problem solving operators which can limit processing cap for schema acquisition even if the learner solves the problem
• Repetition without repetition learning is a form of problem solving characterised by a search through the problem space
• The process of practice towards the achievement of new motor habits essentially consists in the gradual success of a search for optimal motor solutions to the appropriate problems.
• Repetition of a movement/action are necessary in order to solve motor problem many times (better and better) and to find the best ways of solving it
• What learners repeat during practice are not specific solutions to the motor problem but the process of solving the problem again and again and discovering better and better solutions suggesting skill acquisition as exploration, discovery and selection
• Skill acquisition is less an acquisition of something that can be selected and more of a transformation of the learner’s ability to solve the problem
• Problem solving and learning are not the same thing as you can solve a problem but learn nothing about the problem structure in the process via trial and error type solutions
• Deeper understanding can lead to the generation of solutions to not only the current problems but similar problems = transfer of learning
• A person’s response to a problem is not an attempt to make the best choice from existing options but to create more options that may provide better solutions later on
• Learning can be viewed as a search for solutions to motor problems if the search space reveals the structure of the problem space and the rules that bind them together, showing that not all types of searching are equal and some searches may actually compromise learning
• When evaluating the effects of playful practice benefits won’t reveal themselves after limited amounts of practice or in immediate tests and far less likely to reveal themselves on retention tests compared to a test of transfer
• Like discovery learning, it shows up after large amounts of practice when learners are tested with novel tasks or in novel contexts

AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 2: COLLINGWOOD v SYDNEY + GWS v BRISBANE + HAWTHORN v ST KILDA

Video x 10mins.

Includes:

- Poor Sydney 1v1 Defense

- GWS Play On Handballs

- St Kilda Holding Length

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 2: PORT ADELAIDE v WESTERN BULLDOGS + ESSENDON v CARLTON + COLLINGWOOD v SYDNEY

Video x 8mins.

Includes:

- Port Taking Away Their Own Length

- Essendon Going Inside 50

- Sydney Rebound 50

...and more.

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AFLW FILM REVIEW ROUND 2: MELBOURNE v NORTH MELBOURNE + RICHMOND v ADELAIDE

Covering both Melbourne v North Melbourne and Richmond v Adelaide games from round 2.

Video x 13mins.

Includes:

- North Melbourne Switch

- North Melbourne Forwards Too Deep

- Adelaide Rebound D50

- Richmond Width

...and more.

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GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS - USING NUMBER ADVANTAGES

                                                     

This scenario specifically deals with a number advantage for your team, as well as a decent amount of space of which to work in, which should make that advantage even greater if utilised.

This is a very simple scenario to set up and you can extend this as is shown in the video to forwards and defenders using up to about 20 players at a time but you can also get away with 13 - 14 as shown in the video.

At the end of the training video I also suggest many other constraints/rules you can add to this really up the game representation of this scenario, which is you know, is really the point of training.

GAME MOMENT...

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