I'm club coaching this year with another coach for an under 16's team as my appointed under 18 team didn't have the numbers to get through the season so we called that last week.
We've been training as a combined group anyway since we started in Jan so everything I taught the 18's has been taught to the 16's so it's a smooth transition from a coaching and teaching point of view.
One of the earliest tactics I introduced was front press defense which I first noticed by used by Sydney back in 2021, Collingwood and Geelong AFLW in 2022 and now a few more teams in both AFL/W are using it.
The main point of trying to use this type of defense is to turn the ball over as close to your goal as possible so you're not trying to transition all the way from your defensive 50 all the time.
In my 6th session of this year I introduced a very basic version of this which is also part of the Collingwood Training Activities package from last season, of which there are 5 - 6 versions of this
This clip shows how it can look in a game and just look at the 4 - 5 layers of front press defense that Collingwood put on the Blues here.
The level 1 version strictly focuses on closing down the space between the defender's initial position, and the ball carrier - the ball carrier and defender are going straight to each other pretty much so there's no real decision to be made by the defenders as it pretty condensed and there's not much time to make another decision but what's directly in front of you right now.
We had pretty high defensive success when we did this which is expected in the condensed area...
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