WOMEN'S FOOTBALL TRAINING 2026

I'm continuing in my role as Senior Women's Head Coach for season 2026 and we had 7 sessions before breaking for Christmas with 1 focus and that being ball movement.

In our first season out of a 4-year recess, and my first year at the club, we had a lot of players new to football or coming back from lay-offs so we weren't able to put a lot in place as a team offensively and really focused on contested footy which served us well as it played to the strengths and capabilities of the team.

This off-season we have been on a recruitment binge and have already brought in 8 new players and another 8 or so that we're hopeful of getting the club for next season - with most of them having division 1 experience.

This means out overall skill level is well above last year so we're going to work on utilising that on offense with a clear plan of what to do when we have possession.

The tactics aren't mind blowing but the aim is to make the positioning and intent once we get the ball automatic, so the defense doesn't get a chance to re-set, and we'll have multiple players in space ready to receive the next kick for multiple kicks in a row.

We've used 2 basic set-up so far that starts the same way then changes ever so slightly to simulate a game which enables us to get plenty of reps in of the same scenario but also using a repetition without repetition approach to ramp up decision making and game intelligence for all players involved.

The fact that players who have never trained like this before have really grasped the concept and how we want to carry it out shows that the way the training activity has been designed and progressed has enabled the intricacies of it to stick with them week after week and this should bode well for post-Xmas training and not require much training time going back over it as we lead into practice games in March.

Here's what we've done.

SESSION #1 - 2 x 2v1...

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