GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS - CREATING THE OUTNUMBER ADVANTAGE OFF THE LINE

This a scenario that plays out every single game at some point in AFLW, mainly because of there only being 16 players and a lot of transition, offensively and defensively, is simply running towards or back to goal to fill the space.

It'll start with defenders being closer to the opposite goal usually getting back first followed by the offense who were all just defending inside 60m or so from their opposition's goal and you'll get this layered effect of players (defense, offense, defense, offense etc).

This also means that on a micro level you'll have 2v1's lateral of the kicker on a micro-level as in the layering above.

The defense will also default to trying to be the last player between the goal and the ball so they'll simply continue to run back as the ball is moved forward so now our player layer looks like offense, defense, offense and their you have it, your 2v1 advantage.

Now if you can use this 2v1 initially, then you can create a dominoes effect and if you're patient enough, draw the last defender out of their preferred position at some point or simply get close enough to goal and kick it straight over their head.

This slice of the game can be a real game breaker if you can get your players to nail it. 

GAME MOMENT...

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - WEST COAST EAGLES v WESTERN BULLDOGS

                                 

It's been a disappointing year for both teams in 2023 with even their respective coaches having their moment's publicly which never helps when you're losing heavily.

That being said I picked the Dogs to get the win as I just couldn't see Ellie Blackburn not getting them over the line - and she did!

Here's 6 clips from the game and it's all about the Dogs.

The first clip looks at Rocky Cranston just not being able to nail her positioning as a free and open option inside 50, failing to make the pass to her far too good to pass up even though it was a 90 - 100% option.

Next is a smart play from Blackburn where a lot of other AFLW players have failed over the last few seasons.

Following that is showing that if you're the kicker in a closed play situation, then off of a short pass you can be the most forgotten and important player on the ground at the same time, and easily able to make up an outnumber advantage out of thin air.

The forth clip is again a smart recognition play from the Dogs, this time from Georgostathis realising she's about to become the +1 and taking full advantage of it.  

All year I've been banging on about a lack of hit up leads from the forwards at the right time and to the right spot but Sarah Hartwig nails it here.

Lastly we see a bit of vision and then talk about hoe context can make some kick-to options more appealing then others, even if from our vantage point it clearly looks like the easier and most open option, and some of the reasons around that. 

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ALFW GAME ANALYSIS - GOLD COAST v GWS

                        

Gold Coast have progressed nicely this season, having been in the top 8 for the majority of the year off the back of midfield dominance, especially on the contested side of things but also improving on the outside as well.

GWS have had their moments but are still about 1 player per line away from being consistent performers but after being bordering unwatchable a couple of seasons back, they're mid 50 transition has been a feature of theirs this season.

This video features 8 clips from the game on the weekend looking at:

A superb wing running pattern, in unison with the ball movement, from the Gold Coast winger Elizabeth Keaney.

Gold Coast taking themselves and their defender into the space of a free teammate, requiring the ball carrier to abort going to that free, easy and open option. 

Jas Grierson from the Giants firing out an unbelievable congestion clearing handball to an outside runner.

Poor GWS forward structure resulting in it being too crowed and thus not developing any leading lanes for forwards ahead of the ball.Suns' Maddy Brancatisano not using her legs to drive through the the available exit points of the contest.

Gold Coast doing the exact opposite handball of Grierson from earlier.

 GWS opting to kick instead of handball resulting in a turnover instead of a probable scoring shot.

GWS not numbering off at the contest properly.

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ROAMING DEFENDERS TRAINING ACTIVITY

                                                   

This is a 2-way training activity that helps in offensive players searching, identifying and passing to open options in a relatively fast play situation while the defending team are constantly deciding whether to push up and defend or holds back, and who will do either of those actions at any given time.

Here's the video with some extra constraints below it...

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: 2nd TICK LEAD FOR 2023, PORT GIVING OPPO LENGTH, MELB I50/LANES, FREO NO LEAD

                             

In part 2 of 2 for round 7 we get our 2nd tick lead of the season on a fast play going inside 50, this time directly resulting in a goal to GWS.

Doyle runs to goal to generate length and get Peterson's back to the ball which is really the main goal of running back to goal because then as a forward your affordances really open up and you can essentially go wherever you want as the defender can't touch you when you're looking at the ball and they're not - it's not necessarily run to go and get it over the back into space every single time forward as AFLW players can't get the distance on their kicks to do that from where they're going inside 50 from.

The 2nd video shows Port Adelaide simply running alongside and in step with the Gold Coast player streaming down the wing, with the perfect opportunity to press defensively from front on, and halt play in Port's defensive half but instead they continue to run "with" them, then get stepped and allow a defensive 50 to forward 50 fast play under pretty much zero pressure and untouched.

It's Melbourne's to lose right now and it's inside forward 50 connection like what the video shows, that's a big part of it.

They've also mastered the lane running between the arcs which opens up how they can go forward, using much more of the ground than most teams who stay in a single lane and hope for clean use from contest to contest. 

Lastly our run of 2 tick/hit up leads is broken by Fremantle where out of 4 players streaming inside 50 towards goal, none of them turn and hot up at the ball carrier resulting being too far from the kicker and the St Kilda defender reading it far better then all them for the intercept mark.

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COLLINGWOOD POST DIRECTORY

I never thought I'd do so many posts focusing on Collingwood (yuck!) but here we are with a full page dedicated to all the posts I've done on them in the last couple of seasons.

I'll update this if I end up doing more next season.

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2022/06/jack-crisp-interview-on-collingwoods.html (Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2022/09/craig-mcrae-top-25.html (FREE)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/02/35-collingwood-2023-pre-season-training.html (Product - 35 Collingwood Training Activities)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/02/activity-1235-from-collingwood-2023-pre.html (FREE Sample Training Activity)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/02/how-do-collingwood-train-to-make-this.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/03/collingwood-pressing-defense-video.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/04/collingwoods-defense-building-their.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/04/collingwoods-corridor-positioning.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/04/craig-mcrae-insights-for-season-2023.html (15 McRae Quotes)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/05/collingwoods-explosive-offensive-lane.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/06/collingwood-kick-out-formation-tactic.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/06/craig-mcrae-insights-for-season-2023.html (7 McRae Quotes)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/06/3-collingwood-staple-tactics-videos.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/07/20-collingwood-2023-in-season-training.html (Product x 20 Collingwood Training Activities)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/08/3-collingwood-clips-v-geelong.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/08/collingwood-coming-forward-defense-video.html (Game Video)

JORDAN DE GOEY GRAND FINAL GOAL ANALYSIS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcFD08nIkE (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/09/lane-running-melbourne-aflw-v.html (Game Video)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/10/craig-mcrae-insights-for-season-2023.html (11 McRae Quotes)

https://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com/2023/10/collingwood-2023-in-season-training.html (Product x 11 Collingwood Training Activities)

All up that's:

*** 58 Craig McRae Quotes

*** 68 Training Activities Used by Collingwood in season 2023 (13 Small Sided Games, 20 Isolated Skill Practice Activities, 34 Game Play Activities, 1 Conditioning Activity)

*** 12 Game Video Posts 

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: BRISBANE DRAW THE OPPOSITION + 5 OTHER CLIPS

                        

Last week I posted a video from Soccer showing how they drew their defenders forward and away from defending their goal, eventually creating space between the player compactness and the goal, and this being able to play through the opposition and into the space for an easy score.

I talked about how this same principle is rarely used in local footy s we're too impatient and simply kick long into the high player numbers, usually to the opposition's advantage.

Not that I could have possibly have planned it but the Brisbane Lions did pretty much exactly what I presented in that post which is the 6th and last clip in the video below, so it gives a chance to see how this might look in an actual game.

The other clips look at:

Poor Hawthorn wing spacing which narrows the corridor and keeps her direct defender in the play and resultant intercept.

The Hawks again not using the space in front of the kicker for a short to moderate length hit up lead and mark, instead going long to forwards that are all too far away, and a Richmond intercept mark ensues.

Richmond defender having plenty of time to sum up what defensive action needed to be taken but only gave a token effort to delay the ball carrier, giving up corridor, a direct link into forward 50 and goal from 1m out.

Bulldogs going skinny, then in board corridor but then looking to back skinny straight away instead of continuing to look corridor until it's too late.

Adelaide's forward structure not quite up top par as far players having and knowing their specific roles in certain situations.

And then the Brisbane video mentioned at the top of this post.

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THIS HAS TO BE THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF CONE-BASED TRAINING DRILLS

                                                   

I've been banging on about the inadequacy of cone drills for years now but they still seem to be in fashion at all levels of football but if this doesn't change your mind on them then I don't know where to go from here!

I've also just finished up reading a solid read, being How We Learn To Move by Rob Gray, a skill acquisition specialist I've been following on Twitter for a few years now.

I've also compiled 97 notes and 4,333 words from the book that I'll post after the AFLW season is completed as it's a 5 part-post for sure so I'll post them all in a row when the calendar opens up.

Chapter 11 of the book is titled "Youth Coaching" The Problem With Cones and Making Practice Fun Again" and in it he talks about the the process the brain goes through during competition:

"After a light hits your eyes and is converted into an electrical signal that travels to the back of your head it arrives at the visual cortex where it splits off into 2 parts – the dorsal stream that goes to the top of your brain and the ventral stream that goes to the bottom, with each brain area doing vision for action and vision for perception respectively.

What this means is that one is using visual information to help guide actions while the other is using it to allow for passive perception and verbal responses.

When you ask an athlete to perform a decoupled task where they are perceiving without action, they will be using a different parts of the brain (the vision for perception/ventral stream) then they will be when they play their actual sport (the vision for action/dorsal stream)."- page 161.

So it's official, cone/unopposed drills are not preparing any player for the rigors of game day, rendering most of the training we see essentially useless and a waste of time (harsh language duly noted) and as a club and coach it is your responsibility to ensure you are providing the best coaching for each every member of your club and if that means switching your current training methods on their head, then that's what it means.

Training the function of one part of the brain them expecting to improve a totally different function of a different part the brain, and thus performance transfer from training to games, is not in the interests of your club or its players.

You can't expect your players to improve and grow if the club and coaches don't so grab yourself a copy of this book to totally transform your coaching method/s and a level 3 membership consisting of 100's of game representative training activities that will push your players' dorsal stream to it's edges and beyond.

DRAW THE OPPOSITION VIDEO FROM SOCCER

Outside of the Matilda's earlier this year, I've probably watched 5 full games of Soccer in my life,and even that might be a stretch.

So even though I'm not the biggest fan, the use of Soccer tactics in AFL has drawn me to watching various tactic clips pretty daily on Twitter and read up a bit on them when something comes along my social media desk.

Tactically, Soccer has a huge influence on AFL in the last 20 years or so and this video is another  great example of which I'll go through it and by the end of it you'll have a solid slow play transition offense training activity at your disposal as well.

https://twitter.com/mattyflash23/status/1713189494512288246

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3 TEAM TRANSITION TRAINING ACTIVITY

                            

This activity had a bit much going on to video so I've had to break it up into 8 images but once it's set up its pretty simple.

It has 3 teams but 2 colors, with the aim being to transition the ball from 1 end to the other.

First we set up the playing ares which is 2 main playing area's at each end then a transition zone in the middle. You're probably looking at 40x40 for the main playing area's and 20x20 for the transition zone but use that as a starting point and adjust as needed...

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: FINALLY A TICK LEAD BACK AT THE BALL CARRIER!

                          

On an almost weekly basis, and if it hasn't been then it could be if I highlighted all of them, we've seen forwards running back to goal, calling for the ball from a stationary ball carrier.

The problem with this. apart from only having 16 players on the ground and defending with 12 - 14 of them, is that the further you run away from the ball carrier, the  longer they have to kick to get it over the back.

Although kicking distance is increasing, I'd guess it's still at an average of 35m or so which means you can get out of position pretty quickly if you're timing is a little off.

So what's your option if this happens in a game? You now need to shorten that kick, and that's exactly what Daria Bannister does for the first time in AFLW this year - let's hope it catches on!

The other 5 clips in this post looks at:

A wing-off between Richmond and Essendon with Essendon coming away with the win.

Port Adelaide's Gemma Houghton, albeit in the last 30secs of the quarter, looking forward to only see 1 North Melbourne defender in front of her and no teammates, then continuing to simply play on and kick long to them.

Carlton getting totally stifled by Collingwood's on the ball pressure which has ramped up dramatically in recent weeks, carrying over to when they have a closed play possession and offer zero movement for the ball carrier, resulting zero territory and a turnover into fast play for the Pies. 

West Coast still in all sorts, having a 2v1 with grass in front of them available to take, but instead opt to kick to a 1v2 down the line for a Melbourne intercept mark - sums up their season pretty much.

Another piece of vision looking at Melbourne's lanes and how it helps ball movement from wide area's.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - GEELONG v FREMANTLE

                             

As mentioned in the video, Freo are sorely missing Kiara Bowers as she would be personally responsible for 15 - 20 clearances per game on her own with the clearances she does get, and the opposition clearances she stifles through her tackling.

It's no so much the total clearances (they're -2 over the season by my count) but the pressure she is able to apply when the play is in motion and without that at the moment, the opposition are easily able move the ball through the middle of the ground and deep into inside 50.

Their back line though have been admirable, but being -39 inside 50's over the last 2 games means you're trying to start your offense from deep in your own defensive 50, and then have to move the ball, often slowly against organised defense, the length of the ground just to give you an opportunity to try and score.

The first of 4 videos look at how this constant barrage of inside 50's can cause psychological fatigue from an overloading of cognitive load, and this is what results in poor decision making, such as this particular ill-times defender changeover, even though it is still in the first quarter.

The 2nd video shows Fremantle on another one of their attempted 150m possession chains to get from 1 end to the other but find themselves with a 2v1 number advantage in a terrible spot, resulting in kicking long to a 1v4 contest that quickly gets taken away post-contest by the Cats.

Video 3 actually looks at a Geelong switch of play and how getting width doesn't allow you to receive ball on the boundary in space (where only you can get it) but how it also opens the corridor behind you, allowing your team to stay connected and have many other players available to be used rather just the one player out wide.   

The 4th and last video goes back to Freo and how being dominated at the contest over time does a number on you mentally again, and everyone goes into a type of salvation mode, getting too many players too close to the ball and once it pops out of the initial contest, you're at the mercy of the waiting opposition.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - ADE FRONTAL PRESSURE/OVERLAP RUN, GWS POOR POSITIONING, SYDNEY CENTER BOUNCE SET PLAY

                             

Round 7 of AFLW is completed which means it's another dose of analysis clips from the weekend's games.

In the 3 clips fro today we look at:

Adelaide applying frontal defensive pressure and getting the resultant intercept mark because of it.

Stevie Lee-Thompson providing great wing support and then overlap run enabling her forwards to get deep and take their defenders with them, opening up leading space directly to her.

GWS not nailing positioning coming out of their defensive 50 and forcing themselves to stay skinny and go long to a contest.

Dominant Sydney ruck Ally Morphett enabling the Swans to get offensive at center bounces with set plays.

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EXPERT v ACADEMY PLAYER DECISION MAKING

                                   

This is a study I just read last night and this morning that took some reading.

It uses players from Gaelic Football consisting of 2 groups - senior players and under 17 players - who are both shown game clips which were then paused and then each discussed the options the ball carrier has, what decision/s they could make and what factors might influence the final decision.

As local footy has you coaching players at polar ends of experience, age, ability and game intelligence, these notes can have huge ramifications of how you go about coaching each and every player. 

• Players generate 4 main options (pass, recycle/play back, point and goal) through situational awareness which is influenced by 4 primary themes being pre-match context (coach tactics/instructions, match importance, opposition status), current match context (score, time), visual information (player positioning, field space, visual search strategy) and individual differences (self efficacy, risk propensity, perceived pressure, physical characteristics, action capabilities, fatigue)
• The 4 primary themes above generate option awareness/generation and that all makes up your final decision
• Option awareness is dependent on experience/capabilities and expert players demonstrate's a more complex/sophisticated awareness of available options v academy players and they can assign probabililities/make future projections on those options which requires to perceive/comprehend the available sources of information
• Senior players can update their decision making based around the coaches tactics where academy’s are only aware of exactly what they’ve been told meaning they rely heavily on coaching tactics when forming their decisions as they are unable to integrate this with current environmental information
• Acadedmy’s, already over-reliant on coach tactics/instructions, will rarely disagree/question tacrics, where seniors will, and this can restrict creativity in the academy’s
• As seniors often have game analysis, this can restrict their decision making if not in a psychological safe environment to make their own/risky decisions
• Providing players with prescriptive feedback (what to do) can further hinder problem-solving abilities but feedback can leave players with a sense of autonomy (here’s what you did wrong now go and fix it)
• Decision making may be altered depending on the importance of the competition
• In "big" games players might select riskier options (personal highlights, game hero, winning goal etc), potentially resulting in more errors
• Coach tactics/instruction can also go ignored in these games to the detriment of the decision made
• Risk taking may also be linked to self efficacy/action cababilities
• Senior players know what you can and can't do against good opposition and also why that's the case v academy’s who simply only know who you can't do it against good opposition, underpinning their “on-the-surface” knowledge
• Both groups demonstrated awareness of specific opposition team status/strengths but academy differentiated in how this information influenced the decision (we might only get a low amount of scoring chances so take the riskier shot v take the safe option and maintain possession)
• Being behind on the scoreboard is a determinant of riskier play v being in front promoting safer play
• Academy players identified earlier stages of the game as windows as opportunity for riskier play as you’ve got time to recover and in later game stages it’s all about safe play v senior's who were the opposite
• Visual information available in the environment (positioning/field space) affected the decision making process but is also dependent on the use of effective search strategies
• Senior visual information takes into account teammate positioning + pitch space and then comprehends this information and makes projections about the future state to enable sophisticated decision making v academy who lacked detail, was more descriptive then prescriptive with a more wait-and-see what happens approach which delays decision making/action execution
• Both groups identified opposition positioning as restricting the options available
• Senior players can project future states and provide more detail as to why the options are limited due to the opposition player's positioning which for academy’s can restrict the inability to restart/try to create more options and usually just selects an option as soon as possible to try and release the pressure from themselves
• Seniors can find number advantages where academy’s cannot
• Academy’s only considered what they could see on the screen, not what is probably/possibly happening off it in their answers, with seniors basing their assumptions off of pattern recognition/sequences of play that they anticipate from the footage
• Seniors have a superior knowledge base/better probabilistic expectations related to pattern recognition
• Academy players need to be told where to look and often referred to their inability to see all the information in the environment whilst playing and often rely on teammate communication in helping to direct their attention v seniors who don’t rely on any outside help during search strategies
• Experience does not seem to have a meaningful relationship between self-efficacy and decision making performance, contradicting the current study
• Players develop skills that are position dependent and therefore have greater confidence in carrying out position-specific skills then skills more predominant in other positions (mids v backs taking on tackles etc)
• Academy’s seem to base decisions on whether they were more confident in a specific moment rather than based on whether they had experience in achieving the skill
• The perception of how risky a play might be is dependent on the individual’s propensity for risk taking behavior so it is a personal difference rather then an experience difference
• Attacker's are more riskier than defenders but that fits the personality profile of those positions as well
• Percieved pressure is greater for academy citing external factors (crowd etc) which increases mental stress which can impact decision making v seniors who have already mediated perceived pressure and can put in in a box during games
• Players weigh up their physical characteristics against opposition players with academy's referencing it more then seniors
• Regardless of playing level, physical attributes play a predominant role in decision making processes (fast is always fast, strong is always strong)
• Both groups often justified the option they selected according to their action capabilities/ability
• It is plausible to suggest that as the performance demands increase, the academy players due to lack of experience would perceive the situation to exceed their capabilities which increases levels of perceived pressure
• Fatigue also impacts decision making, especially as the game goes on
• Academy's made no reference to physical fatigue suggesting they underestimate its effects on both physical/cognitive performance

AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - COLLINGWOOD BALL MOVEMENT, GEELONG WING LENGTH, GOLD COAST GOING INSIDE 50 x 2, FREO TOO FAST

                           

In part 3 of 3 for this week I analyse:

Collingwood not being able to recognise they have an outnumber opportunity that could have resulted in a far better kick inside 50 from a far better launching area.

Geelong's winger Bowen not getting length and limiting team connection because of it.

Gold Coast Dupuy displaying great forward craft as an inside 50 target and the resultant kick because of it.

 Gold Coast going inside 50 on a fast play and almost getting the connection that we've seen so many other teams not be able to in 2023.

Fremantle defending hard and deep and making it even harder on themselves by trying to create a fast play out of thin air.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - MELB LANES, ZANKER BODYWORK, SYD TEAM DEF, BRIS I50, PIES BALL MOVEMENT

                                         

For video 2 of 3 for this week I look at:

How Melbourne set up at around the ground stoppages to build into their lane running.

Excellent body work BEFORE the ball arrives by Eden Zanker in a 1v1 marking contest.

Sydney not using the team frontal defense tactic and then unable to stop Port Adelaide's ball movement because of it.

Brisbane's tall forward marking options both uncharacteristically getting themselves well out of position and then relying on 152cm Courtney Hodder to take the pack mark allowing Collingwood an uncontested intercept in their own forward 50.

Collingwood having a square up, in board kick available to give them greater access to more of their forward 50.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS - WESTERN BULLDOGS WOES x 3, WEST COAST INSIDE 50 IMPROVEMENT

The Dogs started behind the 8-ball and are stuck playing catch up in 2023 with old injuries being replaced by new injuries to key players, so we;ll start with 4 clips of them + 1 from the Eagles today.

First up we look at the dogs not taking the free territory in front of them after they've been defending from deep in their defensive 50, then turning the ball over.

Secondly we take a look at the Dogs fat winger not keeping her width and then resulting in her not being at the contest she should have been at.

Next up we see how not using the frontal pressing defensive tactic cost them a goal and finally an inside 50 that was reward poorly by the forwards and could have resulted in an excellent scoring opportunity.

For the Eagles we look at a contrast of inside 50 leading patterns from last week against the Power to this week against the Giants.

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COLLINGWOOD 2023 IN-SEASON TRAINING ACTIVITIES VOL. 2

                                            

Back in February I released 35 training activities that Collingwood used in their 2023 pre-season training, followed by 20 in-season training activities released in July and now we finish up season 2023 with another 13 different training activities used by Collingwood right up, and into, finals.

Even as a Sydney Swans fan, it has a pleasure to watch Collingwood games these past 2 seasons and they’ve taken what Richmond started in their premiership years and gone to another level with it.

As they continue success then assistant coaches and thus IP will by snapped up by other clubs and that’s great news for all lovers of footy.

After the training activities I’ve also added all of my posts containing game clips of Collingwood from the first in-season release and the 3^rd installment of Craig McRae Insights posts as well.

Between the 3 Collingwood products I’ve released this year, there are 65+ training activities, 60 McRae insights and 10+ posts consisting of 15+ game clips of Collingwood from season 2023.

If you like what Collingwood do, and would like to see how your own football club could replicate some of it in season 2024, than this is your starting point.

Again this is a standalone product which anyone can purchase as a 1 time purchase and there is no membership needed to do so and is sent out via email as a PDF.

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CRAIG MCRAE INSIGHTS FOR SEASON 2023 - ROUNDS 15 - GRAND FINAL WIN!

                                             

It only took 2 years for Craig McRae to take 14th placed Collingwood from 14th to Premiers.

Masterful recruitment and trading (11 + Adams/Mihocek omissions of Collingwood's 23 played the last game of 2021 prior to his signing) and masterful coaching from the entire Collingwood coaching group, shifted the needle probably more then any 2 year span in history.

The Pies were boring and bordering on unwatchable and also turned into the most must-see AFL team in 2022 and 2023.

It was theirs to lose after getting 3 games clear on top of the ladder as early as anyone probably has but you've still got to deliver when it counts, and they did.

Here's comments from his press conferences I liked from rounds 13 to Grand Final win, making that 60 in total over my 3 posts of these comments.

“I talk about putting...

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: POOR PA WORK RATE, POOR PIES CONNECTION, GWS MISSED OPPORTUNITY ON DEFENSE, POOR GWS I50

                   

In the last of the 3 analyst posts for round 5 we'll look at the final 4 clips.

Port Adelaide not being able to get in front of the ball on defense while letting West Coast run forward of them inside 50 and score.

Once again we see poor forward craft/connection, this time from Collingwood which by now is bordering on an epidemic more then a pattern of play!

We finish with 2 GWS clips with the first one being a prime opportunity to implement pressing forward defense which isn't a tactic of theirs and thus they don't, followed by a poor inside 50 from poor connection and not really knowing what they want going forward and up kicking short to a position heavily defended by North Melbourne.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: MOODY BETTER FWD CRAFT, SHORT v LONG OPTION, POOR WEST COAST CONNECTION

                         

Carlton have made a big shift in 2023 moving All-Australian Ruck Bre Moody to a permanent forward position.

In some previous videos over the last few seasons I have done some clips on her leading patterns when resting as a forward and how they needed some work if her craft was to catch up to her contested marking prowess.

Some of that was Carlton not being able to get the ball anywhere near deep enough but we also saw last week that she didn't know if she wanted to lead or be a long kick target - this week she certainly did so we have 3 clips of her presenting for various forward thrusts by Carlton, all positive and confident movements as well.

I also look at Patrikios from St Kilda who does a mammoth job of following up contest-to-contest only to make a poor decision by foot when there was a far better one she could have made.

Lastly we look at West Coast and their continued midfield/forward connection woes although there contest pressure was huge and got them a much-needed win.

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: POOR CONENCTION, TRANSITION OFF, NOT FINDING THE +1 ADV, FWDS TOO DEEP, POOR I50

 

We're already half through this AFLW season which is ridiculous!

Today we have 5 clips from 1 of 3 posts this week and we'll be looking at:

• Collingwood poor connection going inside 50
• Melbourne transition offense on fast play
• Geelong not searching well enough for the outnumber advantage and kicking long to contest
• Richmond coming off their line too early and the Tiger forwards being too deep at the same time
• Richmond inside 50 kicking and hoping when it had to count

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