YELLOW AND BLACK BOOK - 10 TAKEAWAYS

For the last couple of months I've been reading the book Yellow and Black by Konrad Marshall, a very detailed read that folows the inner sanctum of the Richmond Football Club throughout their premiership drought breaking 2017 season.

It has been on my reading list since it came out in 2018 as I liked the approach the book took with it's focus on not just the wins and losses of a football club, but the processes behind everything they do.

If you haven't noticed I'm a big proces guy!

I put 58 reminder notes in my phone as I read the book that was a page and a bit when typed that and now that I've gone back through the book and pulled those bits out in detail, and then some further research on top of some of those points it's now grown to a 4,000 word and 12 page document.

Here's 10 of those points.

#1) PRESSURE 

#2) THAT'LL GO BEYOND THIS WEEK 

#3) CONNECT FOUR 

#4) THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOMENTUM 

#5) FRAGILE PLAYERS 

#6) NATURAL TALENT 

#7) COMMUNICATION 

#8) INSIDE 50 COUNT 

#9) PRE-GAME MINDSET 

#10) TRIPLE H SESSIONS 

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BACK HALF SLOW PLAY POSSESSION FOOTY DRILL

Players Required: 10 - 11

Balls Required: 1

Space Required: 40 x 80m

Drill Level: Moderate

Nothing ground breaking here but the learning opportunities come through the constraints used in this game, which presents a lot of different affordances...

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NUMBER OFF DECISION MAKING

 

Players Required: 9

Balls Required: 1

Space Required: 10 x 20m

Drill Level: Moderate

Here's how it looks...

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NEXT LEVEL COACHING - AFFORDANCES

What Are Affordances?

How to Create Affordances at Training

Why Do You Want to Create Affordances at Training?

How to Train Affordances

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2021 POSSESSION FOOTY DRILL

The man on the mark drill has been a big inclusion to all footy leagues and grades this year so it stands to good reason that you need to focus on being able to exploit it to your advantage and this drill aimsat doing just that.

This more a template of 1 way you can do this where you could use more/less player numbers, different ratio of attackers/defenders and bigger/smaller space.

I have set up a 10v8 here but as stated you go with an extra line if you have the player nubers for it and extend the area another 20m or so.

I would initially start with a space about 70m by 50m or so which should be big enough to move the football offensively but also small enough to apply decent defensive pressure as well.

Here's the basic set up...

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COACHING PLAYER POSITIONING

Every Tuesday at the end of training we go through some vision from the previous week's game senior game on things we did good and things we didn't do so well.

For memory this clip was a "bad" one as sometimes we tend to ignore a simple/immediate option and continue looking for a later option that never comes and we end up kicking down the line as we did here, with not many tall marking options on our list at the moment.

I noticed the 2 blokes cutting through the middle closest to screen.

Scales (#22) comes in from a lateral/backwards direction to the kicker for a short 45 to the center of the ground and drags his man in there as well.

Froff (#23) has come up at the kicker from about 45m from goal but on his own.

In front of the group I asked senior coach Brad which of these 2 otions the preferred being...

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INTRODUCING THE FOOTY CLUB BUNDLE

 

When I originally moved to this membership based site my initial thought was to develop content for coaches, but moreso football clubs in general to purchase and then have on hand for all coaches at their clubs to use as required.

I don't just want a micro-sector of football coaches to have access to this information, I want everyone in football to have access to this information and help to continuously drive the improvement of local football clubs all over Australia.

So I have finally finished up putting together the Footy Club Bundle.

I really wanted this available more towards the start of the year but life really got in the way and I just couldn't put the time into it so I let it sit for a while and moved to other things, but we're here now.

Like I said this has been put together with the aim of football clubs purchasing the program but of course if you're an individual coach or player, by all means purchase the bundle and go silly but if clubs are going to use this, and they should, then they should make the purchase and as I said, make it available for all their coaches.

The Footy Club Bundle consists of 6 different programs that can beused on pretty much any age group you have at your football club, and you're only limited by your own ability to deliver them.

They are:

4 WEEKS TRAINING - 8 training sessions that introduce and build various football concepts from session 1 to session 8.

GAME MODEL DEVELOPMENT - a 40 part series on developing your very own Game Model

FOOTY FOCUS - an 8 week program for junior/youth footballers expecially but again can be used for any grade of football as we're all too distracted these days.

DECISION MAKING PROCESS - a 4 part look at the decision making and how you can be more specific in your training of it.

BE ACTIVATED - the ultimate, but unknown, pre-game/training prep and injury prevention secret.

SPEED DEVELOPMENT - speed is king but you have to train it like a real sprinter would and this program shows you how.

ENERGY SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT - a 6 week program that allows you to specifically develop the endurance of each player, at their current level of fitness.

All programs have planty of videos and visuals so you'll know exactly what to do but if anyone needs any extra information for any of it, feel free to contact me directly.

This is the starting point of the footy club bundle and I might add to it over time so once you're into the program then you'll receive all new additions that go into it with no extra cost.

As always I'm always after feedback so if you have any, or idea's of other programs most football clubs could really benefit from, then let me know and I'll take a look at it.

You can purchase the Footy Club Bundle from here.