TEAM-BASED DEFENSIVE TACTICS

                                                               

Within a single local footy team you'll have a huge range of abilities and experience which in turn results in various levels of output on game day.

This can, and does, leave performance gaps from player to player in the way affordances are perceived and acted upon.

The focus of team success is usually built around individual improvement but the last time I looked, Aussie Rules has 18 players on the ground at a time,meaning will garner far more improvement in team performance by training team tactics.

Good decisions come from good positions so if everyone knows where they should be positioned and what their role is at at all times of the game, then at the very least you're giving yourself a very good chance to control the game which usually leads to success. 

I don't care what level of footy you're playing in, it's easier with 18 players then 10.

You can break down any part of a 100min game in footy into 3 basic aspects being in possession, out of possession and in dispute.

That equates to playing offense, playing defense or trying to win a stoppage.

You break those down even further into offense, transition defense, defense, transition offense but we'll keep it nice and simple today.

As the title suggests we'll look at defense today and these are just my idea's, yours may be completely different but it will give you a framework on how to develop team-based tactics for any part of the game.

For defense I'd start with the 3 D's...

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