FULL GROUND TRAINING STRUCTURE

                                                       

I found this in my files from a couple of years ago which is an idea around training that is game simulated.

It's definitely not something you'd do early in your pre-season but only after players have had the chance to get to know the game model and also have a fair idea of what part of the ground you'll be playing them in during the season.

Anyway it starts with a stoppage on the mid wing boundary area for simplicity sake and works form there with formation and the roles and responsibilities of the team lines (defense, mids and forwards) and the individuals within it.

I've only used 9 players per team here again for simplicity sake but as you go along you can add players in to each line which will increase the need for efficient and effective communication between players as there's more people who need to know what's going on all at the same time...

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3 COLLINGWOOD CLIPS v GEELONG

After a slow start, Collingwood overpowered Geelong Friday night to lock in top spot for season 2023.

Here are 3 clips I posted on Twitter during the game but can now expand upon them further then 140 characters.

#1 - JAMIE ELLIOTT PAUSE

#2 - COLLINGWOOD TRUST

#3 - JOSH DAICOS KICK

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ACHIEVING FOOTBALL MASTERY PART 3/3

                                          

Earlier in the week I posted about the theory behind mastery and what behaviors you should be focused on to achieve it and then I posted the first 9 videos showing mastery, or alack of it, in game situations.

Here's the other 9.

#10...

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ACHIEVING FOOTBALL MASTERY PART 2/3

Coming off the back of Kingy talking about Darcy Moore and positional mastery on First Crack Sunday night, earlier this week I posted the theory behind mastery and some of the behaviors behind it.

Today we look at mastery, or a lack thereof, in game situations with these 9 video clips, with the other 9 coming tomorrow.

#1 - Finding and taking the most open option over kicking long to a contested situation, is mastery the art of maintaining possession and is not just the kicker's responsibility, but also their teammates (shared affordances) to find open positions to receive the ball in...

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ACHIEVING FOOTBALL MASTERY PART 1/3

                                         

During my weekly watch of Fox Footy's Last Crack on a Sunday night at the completion of each round, Kingy had this to say about Darcy Moore and his missed kicks out of defensive 50 over the last couple of weeks:

"...he's the interceptor, the rebounder - give it to the point guards...he doesn't need to be the laser by leg...what’s your role in the team, let the play-makers play, give the easy one’s, give what’s available, take what the opposition gives you and don’t try and over-create too much..."

I've been trying to find an angle on how to do a post on mastery for at least a year now and now I've found it so here we go.

To help explain these better and for you to see what they look like, later in the week I'll post 18 short clips of both behaviors in actual game situations but here's some theory behind mastery first.

There's 2 behavior-driven ways that football is usually played by and that's mastery and ego...

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THE INFLUENCE OF SCORING MODE ON PASSING ACTIONS (STUDY)

I read this study this past week and the results should really give coaches food for thought in designing their practice sessions and plenty of actionable conclusions as well.

It looked at the passing actions during 4v4 games of Soccer on a 30x20m pitch featuring junior players of various ages with the 3 different scoring modes - end line goals, double goals and central goals.

The end line goal is a 2 - 3m zone running the width of the pitch the ball needs to land in and if it rolls out then it doesn't count...

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RICHMOND PRE-GAME WARM UP ACTIVITIES

I ventured to the Richmond/Sydney game about a month ago and actually managed to get there early which is rare so I was able to get a look at some of the pre-game activities Richmond went through as I was up their end.

I'm always interested to see what teams do pre-game as they are usually specific slices of the game, as most training activities should be, albeit without much, or any, opposition.

There aren't much to these but even though this is an AFL team, it still shows how simple most of the stuff they do actually is, but at a greater intensity and attention to detail then what we do at local level where we can often try too hard to cram 10 things into the 1 activity and learning, thus transfer, never really seems to happen for as many players as we hope it will. 

The first activity is...

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