AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: WEST COAST NEEDS WORK, GREAT CONNECTION, PIES JUST OFF, DOGS KICK OUT

                       

In the last video of round 4 (Thursday game tomorrow- finally!) we have 7 clips looking at:

• West Coast in all sorts from poor rebounding from defensive 50, to a potentially better strategy to moving the ball through the mid 50, to giving up control of the ball in your forward half
• Great Freo midfield/forward connection and a true understanding of what they want going forward
• Collingwood just off a touch via trying to force a fast play in an obvious slow play scenario to not recognising a potential outnumber that would have ensured a much deeper forward 50 entry under far less pressure
• Bulldogs kick out options going slightly outside the team's game model

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - NORTH MELBOURNE v BRISBANE

                           

Brisbane and North Melbourne have been 2 of the best teams in AFLW since each others inception in season 1 and season 3 respectively.

This past weekend's game was another close contest with the Lions registering a come from behind win away from home to keep them in arms' length of the top end of the ladder, having already lost to Richmond this season.

I could go 30mins deep into games against 2 of the top teams but have settled for these 6 clips looking at:

• How Brisbane could have gone inside 50 on fast play to ensure a shot on goal
• Brisbane losin Garner at forward 50 stoppage (Hint: Don't!)
• 3 North Melbourne center bounce clearances
• Kearney using width to create the corridor

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: LANE RUNNING, DEF WING RUN, CONNECTION, CARLTON JUST OFF

We've got 19 clips over 3 videos from round 4, a banger of a round with upsets and come from behind victories.

Today we look at:

• Melbourne developing their lane running but off of a general play ball up at half back
• How the best wingers play as goal keepers in the defensive half, allowing your defenders to press up high and aggressively
• Poor GWS connection going inside 50 and a same old story we've seen already this year (and will again I guarantee!)
• Carlton not pushing into their forward 50 fast enough enough, Carlton with poor connection (I told you it would happen again!) and Moody just needing to sharpen up her forward craft

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GAME/TRAINING SCENARIO - MIDFIELD/FORWARD CONNECTION

First one of these for a while!

This game/training scenario looks at midfield and forward connection in fast play and came from the Western Bulldogs/Hawthorn AFLW game from round 2.

PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT - Contested situation at our center half back

GAME MOMENT - Ball kicked out of contest and marked in the center of the ground by us.

GAME VIDEO...

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AFLW ROUND 3 GAME ANALYSIS: ST KILDA v PORT ADELAIDE

This post is focused on the St Kilda/Port Adelaide game from this past weekend with 3 clips from that game.

The first clip looks at how Poet Adelaide develop their forward half defensive formation while possessing the ball through slow play and then I suggest a minor improvement on how they could have really ramped the pressure up on the Saints.

The second clip looks at both teams being rather disorganised - the Saints with a huge outnumber at the actual stoppage and then the Power with a huge advantage in front of the ball.

The third clip looks at the starved-scoring Saints and their extremely cautious ball movement, where instead of playing into space where they had the outnumber advantage, they went skinny and actually gave up ground in the process.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - DEVELOPING LANES FROM A KICK OUT, FORWARD LINE COHESION, NOT HAVING ANY PLAYERS INSIDE 50, MID 50 LASSO DEFENSIVE FORMATION

 

Today I have 4 clips that I dive into:

• Melbourne developing their running lanes from a kick out
• Fremantle forward line cohesion
• West Coast trying to score with a huge outnumber disadvantage and obviously failing
• Gold Coast team defense off mid 50 lasso free kick

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AFLW ROUND 3 GAME ANALYSIS - GEELONG v NORTH MELBOURNE

2 of the best teams went at it on the weekend in Geelong and North Melbourne and after the first half, it looked like the Roos were in all sorts before a remarkable 3rd quarter got them the lead and they held on.

Both teams get everything started from their respective midfield's but the Ruck advantage North have, with Rennie and King, put them over the top at stoppages where they were +11 in hot outs and +17 at clearances.

In this 10min video I take a look at:

• Both teams supporting players using their respective tall/marking forwards as reference points of starting and finishing positions
• North Melbourne running and handballing through the middle of the ground rather then kick to free Geelong defenders
• North Melbourne's forward 50 throe in set play
• North Melbourne's kick in defensive formation

The reference point clip is an ultra-important one for local/community football.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - PLAY SWITCH, CONNECTION, CENTER BOUNCE FORMATIONS, CREATING OUTNUMBERS, TEMPO

These are my 6 left over game analysis clips from AFLW round 2.

There's a switch of play from Adelaide, poor midfield-forward connection from the Bulldogs, 2 North Melbourne center bounce masterpieces, Carlton's inability to create and use an outnumber advantage and Collingwood failing to play at the right tempo at the right time and giving up an easy scoring opportunity.

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BRISBANE/COLLINGWOOD AFLW FORWARD HALF TEAM DEFENSE

Today's pattern of play from my game analysis looks at defending out of bounds on the full free kicks against our team, deep in our own forward 50.

There's 2 clips of Brisbane from the same game v Port Adelaide and then 1 clip of Collingwood the very next day v Fremantle.

All 3 clips are of the same scenario and both teams play them very similarly, but different, bit towards initiating the same process, not necessarily an outcome, which will come from off the process down the line.

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LANE RUNNING - MELBOURNE AFLW v COLLINGWOOD AFLM

I've posted numerous clips showing how Collingwood go about their lane running during transition offense and it's a big part of how they manage to get so many good looks at goal even though they have rarely have more inside 50's then their opposition. 

Over in AFLW, Melbourne and North Melbourne have been using it for a season or 2, with Melbourne taking it up a notch already this season.

The Collingwood play came from Friday nights game v Melbourne and the Melbourne play coming this past Sunday v GWS. 

Like yesterday, this video is showing 2 different teams using a very similar pattern of play, and this is at the heart of any game analysis, or it should be.

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AFLW SAME SCENARIO, 2 DIFFERENT TEAMS

The point of game analysis is to find patterns of play that occur over multiple games that then allow you to see how your team plays in relation to them, as well as how opposing teams do as well.

As stated last week I've been able to pinpoint almost a dozen patterns of play that occur in AFLW, and they would be very close, if not the exact same, in most local footy games as well.

This past round of AFLW provided the exact same scenario twice being how 2 different teams defended a lasso free kick from the exact same spot, in the exact same situation.

From these 2 videos there is clear winner in who defended this kick the best and is definitely a formation you can apply to your own team in 2024 - success leaves clues!

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4 SYDNEY SWANS PRE-SEASON TRAINING ACTIVITIES

I just found these in my training activities file from the Swans 2022 pre-season.

The first 2 are for your forwards to get into the habit of doing their work prior to leading for the ball to create space for them to mark and the kicker to be able get the ball to them to do so.

The 3rd on is just a basic 3 player ground ball activity suitable for all players.

The 4th activity is a kicker decision-making and receiver space-finding activity, a couple of the real fundamentals of football (kicking and handballing aren't really fundamentals!).

#1 - TACKLE BAG LEAD...

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AFLW GEELONG KICK OUT TEAM DEFENSE + ST KILDA NUMBERING OFF

The first clip shows Geelong's kick out team defense formation which is nothing ground braking but it does show the discipline players need within it to give what you're prepared to give and take away what you want to take away, and any deviation from that from just 1 player can break the entire system down.

The 2nd clip shows a basic numbering off situation from St Kilda in their forward 50 and how it can overcome an outnumber disadvantage and at the very least, result in a stoppage in your own forward 50 and the chance for your entire team to reset around, behind and in front of the ball.

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NORTH MELBOURNE AFLW PERFECT WING PLAY

                            

It's always a treat watching North Melbourne AFLW as they move the ball the best of anyone in the competition every year in my opinion.

The make the ground wide, they make the ground long and they spread the defense which gives them relatively easy and open teammates to kick to which doesn't require huge amounts of individual skill, but it does require high game intelligence and patience.

A lot of teams, not overly confident they can move the ball from 1 end to the other, try and do so by putting speed on on the ball in the wrong area's of the ground or in the wrong situations, resulting in a lot of turnovers which is more method than actual skill.

North Melbourne on the other hand know they have the method, and are patient in waiting for formations and player positioning to develop to present and then find these open teammates.

The wing position has become the most crucial position on the ground in regards to moving the ball from 1 end to the other as it's them, in particular the fat winger, that decides how much ground you're going to be able to access at that time.

Adding to that they determine how connected the rest of the team can stay, and how many players can be used in the current play.

In this video from the weekend against St Kilda, North Melbourne winger Tess Craven (who I called Charlton in the video!), shows perfect wing play by vacating space to create width for her teammates then again vacating space to create length for another teammate.

She simply runs her lane, which is non-existent in a lot of local footy, and after 3 - 4mins of game pay is then able to get her reward for running, getting on the end of an offensive transition play and going very deep inside forward 50.

Although she only had 10 possessions for the game, the ability to make and keep the ground big is exactly what North Melbourne want to do so to make this quantifiable for local footy where the amount of possessions is still how game impact is judged, how many times your team can go fat side corridor without going to your fat winger might something you can use.

If your team can go fat corridor but not to the winger then that probably means that they have successfully created the width (spreading from contest midfielders) and length (run from behind defenders/hit up forwards) for others.

This cannot happen if the winger just sits them selves 20m off the play and doesn't move out of that lane.

If you play on the wing then memorise this video...

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CARLTON AFLW HIGH PRESS + FORWARD HALF GAME

In the last few seasons Carlton has been below average in there game plan defensively and offensively.

From what I could see, and I watched every game, they would apply low pressure around the ball resulting in having to defend and initiate their offense from right back in their defensive 50, and then try and play too fast from there and simply run out of forwards to kick to, and loose defenders would continually intercept and the cycle would start again.

Enter season 8 in 2023 and it's a new coach, and a full time at that, in Matthew Buck, an old mate of mine who I haven't seen since I left Warrnambool in mid 2000's!

Obviously I was very interested to see what Bucky was able to do with a decent sized pre-season compared to all the others in AFLW but a list with decent turnover at the same time thanks to expansion.

If you watched the game they applied super pressure around the ball all game long with 91 tackles, winning clearances 28-24 and just losing contested possession 104-108 against the likes of Charlie Rowbottom who is the Patrick Cripps of the AFLW, along with Bri Davey.

This enables them to get the ball into their forward half where at one point in the 2nd quarter it was 73% to 23% forward half time in the Blues favor and this video shows a great example of how they were able to do this...

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS ROUND 1: MELBOURNE v COLLINGWOOD

A quick video of 5 things I noticed from last nights AFLW season opener between the Dees and the Pies.

I look at the first center bounce clearance, Collingwood using run from behind players, Collingwood's quick defensive transition moment in their own forward 50, Collingwood needlessly altering tempo and Melbourne creating space off a free kick.