5v4 RUN FROM BEHIND TRAINING ACTIVITY

                                       

I've posted about staying connected as a team throughout your ball movement and this activity trains this specifically.

By using run from behind options, especially from out of the back line, you're not forcing your forwards to lead up and out of position so even if they do get it, they are usually at a number disadvantage in front of the footy anyway.

This activity is designed so that you have to use run from behind options before going forward which also encourages the ball carrier to take more time with the ball in searching, deciding and then executing their next option...

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STRONGER AND BOLDER NOTES (RICHMOND BOOK) - KONRAD MARSHALL

                                                 

Back in 2021 I read and posted about Konrad Marshall's first book on his time in the inner sanctum of Richmond Football Club in 2017 titled "Yellow and Black".

These notes come from his second book titled "Stronger and Bolder" detailing the 2019 season for the Tigers.

There's some themes that continue from the 1st book so give my first post a read if you can.

- Behind every superhero is a sidekick and they help the superhero get through a problem. Every single one of you has a strength that you rely on to get you to this level and the opposition is trying to take it away and at some stage you'll call on your sidekick/s to help you display it... 

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DRAW DEFENDER'S UP TRAINING ACTIVITY

This is an excellent training activity that places puts into practice the art of drawing up defenders's instead of kicking to them in a contest/pack situation.

We all encounter teams that flood back or hold a spare defender in our forward line so to combat that you must draw other defender's out so they become accountable to a player on our team.

There's a little bit to it so hopefully I've explained it clearly enough!

Here are the basic rules of the game...

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AFL ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS + SKILL ACQUISITION (STUDY)

                                          

These notes come from an AFL-based study titled Sport Practitioners as Sport Ecology Designers: How Ecological Dynamics Has Progressively Changed Perceptions of Skill “Acquisition” in the Sporting Habitat.

This, and all studies really, is a long read but full of the most recent coaching specific information which above all, is also evidence-based.

• The gardener cannot actually grow produce, they can only foster an environment in which it can occur
• The coaches role is to identify the critical information sources/affordances of a training setting that are most likely to impact on an athlete's or team’s behaviour/s, such as task, individual and environmental constraints through the use of representative design
• The coach needs to be hands on and be able to create conditions for an athlete to be able exploit/flourish during the development/learning process and then apply a hands off approach and guide the athlete through
• Practice design should consist of a clear task goal predicated on informational constraints sampled from the competitive performance environment
• Coaches can then build these informational sources into the ecosystem (hands on) and then observe (hands off) the emergent interactions that unfolded between the athlete and their environment
• This interaction progressively attunes the athlete to the informational sources within their workspace, developing fine-grained relationships with their performance environment building knowledge of their environment rather than knowledge about their environment
• Match score is a critical performance indicator constraint/environmental constraint that guides players’ perceptions, intentions and actions as they attempt to manage the game
• The study looked at different task, environmental and individual constraints
• Task constraints = possession time for ground ball and handball receive x 0-1/1-2/2-3secs + possession time for mark/free kick x 0-1/1-2/2-3secs
• Environmental constraints = target density x opposition players within 3m of intended target) + uncontested/even/inferior/superior player numbers + ball carrier density x opposition players within 3m of ball carrier x 0/1/2/3/3+ players
• Individual constraint = disposal movement/locomotive state x stationary to walking/jogging to sprinting
• 2 teams played a small sided game but then 1 team was scored 6pts up with 3mins to go and both teams played from there
• The team placed in front had fewer disposals performed within 0-1secs across both general play and stoppage possessions, a greater % of total disposals performed from closed play in the 3secs+ time frame, a greater % of total disposals to uncontested and superior numbered targets and fewer total disposals performed to inferior numbered targets relative to conditions prior to score manipulation
• The team that was behind exhibited fewer disposals to uncontested targets, fewer disposals performed with no opposition within 3m of them, greater disposals performed with 3+ opposition within 3m of them, greater disposals performed within 1sec and a greater % of total disposals performed while running
• The score manipulation led to the emergent of 2 distinct passing strategies by both teams x players searching their work spaces for opportunities to slow their ball speed down and take low risk options when passing + players searching their work space to speed up their ball movement at the expense of higher risk passing options
• Slow play reflected resting with the ball to protect the lead and fast play reflected throwing caution to the wind
• Providing opportunities for players to explore behaviors that could successfully deceive the opposition in the search for time and space should be included within the preparation for performance models
• In the 2nd small sided game they used the same score manipulation as before but you can get an extra point for deceiving the opposition via a faked disposal, creative disposal, calling for the ball in defense, blocking for a teammate etc
• The most common deception tactic in game 1 was a faked disposal followed by a creative disposal and in game 2 it was the same but also calling for the ball on defense

3 COLLINGWOOD STAPLE TACTICS (VIDEOS)

                                        

Still loving what Collingwood are doing, even after yesterday's loss so here's some short clips from yesterday looking at some of their stable tactics they've used in the past season and a half.

We'll quickly look at manufacturing corridor, coming forward defense and fast play kick out.

The beauty of them is they simply work on buy-in from the players, there's nothing so groundbreaking that any pother team, professional or community, couldn't use some, or all of them, in some capacity.

#1...

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CRAIG MCRAE INSIGHTS FOR SEASON 2023 - ROUNDS 7 - 13

                                           

A lot of things can change in the next 12 weeks or so but as of right now, it's Collingwood's premiership to lose for season 2023.

There just doesn't seem to be any noticeable holes in their game and with best 22 players still to return from injury and suspension, I can't see the Pies train being derailed anytime soon. 

What's most remarkable is that he initially started this "new Collingwood way" with the same, or lesser playing list, then when he took over and they were bordering on being unwatchable with slow and sideways ball movement.

I have, and continue to love, what Flybags is doing, along with most of the football public.

Here are some more comments I handpicked from his press conferences as well as SEN appearances.

"When the whistle goes (at training)...

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COLLINGWOOD KICK OUT FORMATION TACTIC (VIDEO)

                                        

I've analysed Collingwood kick outs before but this is the best vision of it in full that I've seen this year.

Regardless of who kicks out, and it mostly rotates through Darcy Moore, Nick Daicos and John Noble, the main strategies used are:

• To load up on 1 side
• Wait for the numbers to get there before initiating the kick out
• Play on to get extra territory
• Get (mostly) midfield numbers to the front of the contest but positioned to take the ball corridor side, straight towards goal

It's nothing any team in Australia couldn't replicate but there's also some extra spacing formation strategies they use to then move the ball forward at pace.

Check It Out...

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POSSESSION TO TRANSITION TRAINING ACTIVITY PART 1

                                                   

This training activity focuses on maintaining possession of the footy while drawing defenders out of their preferred positions.

It can be used with youth up to senior level and I'll provide variations and layers below.

Here's the basic set up...

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