COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 17: MICRO GAME MOMENTS

                                                     

The last chapter covers a variety of micro game moments that didn't really fit a chapter of their own but are still critical in attending to the details of coaching modern football.

The micro game moments covered are:

• Team Pressure
• Inside Forward 50 Kick
• Full Leads
• Stay in the Play
• Space Manipulation
•  Adapatability

This follows the previous 16 chapters:

#1 - Forward Press Defense

#2 - Lane Running

#3 - Midfielder Running Patterns

#4 - 666 Connection

#5 - Exploiting the Stand Rule

#6 - Team Formations

#7 - Creating/Utilising Length

#8 - Center Bounce Clearance

#9 - Forward Play

#10 - Wing Play

#11 - Playing Between the Lines

#12 - Kick Out Strategies

#13 - Creating/Utilising Outnumber Advantages

#14 - Manufacturing Corridor

#15 - Overlap

#16 - Ruck Runs

It is now available from the register page as a stand alone product which when purchased is then emailed to you in a PDF, meaning you don't have to be a member to gain access.

If you're a local/amateur football coach then you're well aware that apart from your assistant coaches, there is distinct lack of readily available resources form where you can learn about different concepts used in football.

All coaches watch and read about footy and the different tactics and strategies that are used by are left wondering what is it exactly and how can I teach my players to do that?

That exact question is what I set out to answer in this mammoth series.

This week I'll release the remaining 4 chapters that I have currently completed so all 17 will be available at the time you need them - right at the start of pre-season training.

Make 2025 the season you positively turn your coaching practices upside down and re-energise your passion for teaching, coaching and leading your players.

COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 16: RUCK RUNS

                                                

If you've watched any of my game analysis videos then you'll know that I love a ruck that is proactive in becoming involved in more interactions then stoppages.  

Having another bog body around the ground is always handy and if you opposition ruck is happy playing the traditional ruck role as described above, then it's a very easy way to create outnumber advantages all game long.

This follows the previous 15 chapters:

#1 - Forward Press Defense

#2 - Lane Running

#3 - Midfielder Running Patterns

#4 - 666 Connection

#5 - Exploiting the Stand Rule

#6 - Team Formations

#7 - Creating/Utilising Length

#8 - Center Bounce Clearance

#9 - Forward Play

#10 - Wing Play

#11 - Playing Between the Lines

#12 - Kick Out Strategies

#13 - Creating/Utilising Outnumber Advantages

#14 - Manufacturing Corridor

#15 - Overlap

It is now available from the register page as a stand alone product which when purchased is then emailed to you in a PDF, meaning you don't have to be a member to gain access.

If you're a local/amateur football coach then you're well aware that apart from your assistant coaches, there is distinct lack of readily available resources form where you can learn about different concepts used in football.

All coaches watch and read about footy and the different tactics and strategies that are used by are left wondering what is it exactly and how can I teach my players to do that?

That exact question is what I set out to answer in this mammoth series.

This week I'll release the remaining 4 chapters that I have currently completed so all 17 will be available at the time you need them - right at the start of pre-season training.

Make 2025 the season you positively turn your coaching practices upside down and re-energise your passion for teaching, coaching and leading your players.

AFLW FINALS WEEK 2 GAME ANALYSIS

A close one and a not-so-close one in week 2, with Port Adelaide coming back from the highest 3/4 time margin in AFLW history of 22pts to get the win and go through to the prelim.

Unfortunately it doesn't get easier for them going up against unbeaten North Melbourne but they've already exceeded expectations  by a week or 2 so they have nothing to lose and that makes for a tough opposition if your North Melbourne.

This week we look at:

• Fremantle defenders relaxing their focus of attention
• Fremantle not capitalising on an excellent phase of transition offense play 
• Fremantle defender with the perfect opportunity to use press forward defense, but doesn't
• Excellent Adelaide center bounce clearance
• Hawthorn creating and utilising the outnumber advantage

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COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 15: OVERLAP

 

The best way to play fast footy is not to get it and simply kick it forward at all costs, it's to get overlap.

The ability for individual players, and teams, to create this overlap means the ball is constantly in motion and the opposition will not be able to cover all of your offensive bases as you've given them no time to reorganise in the first place.

A scrambling defense is a vulnerable defense!

This follows the previous 14 chapters:

#1 - Forward Press Defense

#2 - Lane Running

#3 - Midfielder Running Patterns

#4 - 666 Connection

#5 - Exploiting the Stand Rule

#6 - Team Formations

#7 - Creating/Utilising Length

#8 - Center Bounce Clearance

#9 - Forward Play

#10 - Wing Play

#11 - Playing Between the Lines

#12 - Kick Out Strategies

#13 - Creating/Utilising Outnumber Advantages

#14 - Manufacturing Corridor

It is now available from the register page as a stand alone product which when purchased is then emailed to you in a PDF, meaning you don't have to be a member to gain access.

If you're a local/amateur football coach then you're well aware that apart from your assistant coaches, there is distinct lack of readily available resources form where you can learn about different concepts used in football.

All coaches watch and read about footy and the different tactics and strategies that are used by are left wondering what is it exactly and how can I teach my players to do that?

That exact question is what I set out to answer in this mammoth series.

This week I'll release the remaining 4 chapters that I have currently completed so all 17 will be available at the time you need them - right at the start of pre-season training.

Make 2025 the season you positively turn your coaching practices upside down and re-energise your passion for teaching, coaching and leading your players.

COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 14: MANUFACTURING CORRIDOR

 

Moving the ball through corridor is the the quickest way to goal but it also comes with the most risk.

Teams often set up defensively to cut off the corridor but it's all about how attacking you want to be.

Teams like Sydney and Collingwood attack the corridor with reckless-abandon and never shy away from doing it, as is their mindset around corridor play on offense.

This chapter will show you various ways teams manufacture corridor meaning they can still get advantages through the corridor out of seemingly thin air, whether it is covered or not by the opposition.

Like I said, corridor is a mentality!

This follows the previous 13 chapters:

#1 - Forward Press Defense

#2 - Lane Running

#3 - Midfielder Running Patterns

#4 - 666 Connection

#5 - Exploiting the Stand Rule

#6 - Team Formations

#7 - Creating/Utilising Length

#8 - Center Bounce Clearance

#9 - Forward Play

#10 - Wing Play

#11 - Playing Between the Lines

#12 - Kick Out Strategies

#13 - Creating/Utilising Outnumber Advantages

It is now available from the register page as a stand alone product which when purchased is then emailed to you in a PDF, meaning you don't have to be a member to gain access.

If you're a local/amateur football coach then you're well aware that apart from your assistant coaches, there is distinct lack of readily available resources form where you can learn about different concepts used in football.

All coaches watch and read about footy and the different tactics and strategies that are used by are left wondering what is it exactly and how can I teach my players to do that?

That exact question is what I set out to answer in this mammoth series.

This week I'll release the remaining 4 chapters that I have currently completed so all 17 will be available at the time you need them - right at the start of pre-season training.

Make 2025 the season you positively turn your coaching practices upside down and re-energise your passion for teaching, coaching and leading your players.

COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 13: CREATING/UTILISING OUTNUMBER ADVANTAGES

 

Playing with outnumber advantages is the foundational element of any team sport, including Aussie Rules.

We have a huge emphasise on creating free players in open space which is bloody hard with 36 players on the ground, but there is very little training to create outnumber advantages, have the team collectively identify them and then to actually utilise them to your team's benefit - and that's a huge mistake.

Only training to get players into free space means they usually need to disconnect from the play to do so and if they then don't receive the ball, they out of position to continue in the play or to defend on turnover.

It can have a pay off for you but there is also an equal pay off against you but there are better ways to go about as we'll see in this chapter.

After reading this chapter you'll have a couple of frameworks you can use to create and utilise outnumber advantage to greatly helping coaching this to your playing group.

This follows the previous 12 chapters:

#1 - Forward Press Defense

#2 - Lane Running

#3 - Midfielder Running Patterns

#4 - 666 Connection

#5 - Exploiting the Stand Rule

#6 - Team Formations

#7 - Creating/Utilising Length

#8 - Center Bounce Clearance

#9 - Forward Play

#10 - Wing Play

#11 - Playing Between the Lines

#12 - Kick Out Strategies

It is now available from the register page as a stand alone product which when purchased is then emailed to you in a PDF, meaning you don't have to be a member to gain access.

If you're a local/amateur football coach then you're well aware that apart from your assistant coaches, there is distinct lack of readily available resources form where you can learn about different concepts used in football.

All coaches watch and read about footy and the different tactics and strategies that are used by are left wondering what is it exactly and how can I teach my players to do that?

That exact question is what I set out to answer in this mammoth series.

Next week I'll release the remaining 4 chapters that I have currently completed so 17 will be available at the time you need them - right at the start of pre-season training.

Make 2025 the season you positively turn your coaching practices upside down and re-energise your passion for teaching, coaching and leading your players.

COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL CHAPTER 12: KICK OUT STRATEGIES

 

The following stats come from this post.

Port Adelaide topped the scoring from kick outs in 2024 at 6.3pts per game with a single game high of 26pts.

Geelong topped scoring from their defensive 50 at 20.1pts per game with GWS getting the single game high of 50pts.

 Geelong also topped scoring from defensive center at 20.9pts per game and St Kilda reached the single game high total of 51pts.

From cneter bounce Geelong wins again at 14.4pt/game and the single game high of 45 from Collingwood.

Forward center scores were highest by the Hawks at 31.1pts/game with Sydney getting the single game high total here of 31pts.

The Western Bulldogs were the best for scoring from inside forward 50 at 23.5pts per game with a single game high of 55pts!  

Apart from the obvious that it's easier to score from your forward half then anywhere else on the ground, from the stats you can se that if you can get your defensive half ball movement on song, then you can still rack up solid scores from there on a semi-regular basis when you compared the single game high scores from each category.

This chapter will focus on kick out strategies but the process of them can still be used for general play ball movement within, and out of, your defensive half.

This follows the previous 11 chapters:

#1 - Forward Press Defense

#2 - Lane Running

#3 - Midfielder Running Patterns

#4 - 666 Connection

#5 - Exploiting the Stand Rule

#6 - Team Formations

#7 - Creating/Utilising Length

#8 - Center Bounce Clearance

#9 - Forward Play

#10 - Wing Play

#11 - Playing Between the Lines

It is now available from the register page as a stand alone product which when purchased is then emailed to you in a PDF, meaning you don't have to be a member to gain access.

If you're a local/amateur football coach then you're well aware that apart from your assistant coaches, there is distinct lack of readily available resources form where you can learn about different concepts used in football.

All coaches watch and read about footy and the different tactics and strategies that are used by are left wondering what is it exactly and how can I teach my players to do that?

That exact question is what I set out to answer in this mammoth series.

I'm planning on adjusting my release schedule and up it to 3 chapters a week for the next couple of weeks to get them all out in time for pre-season 2025 for local/amateur coaches.

1 - I want space the release time of each chapter enough to give you time read, digest and then get a handle on each chapter before the next one comes out to ease the mental load compared to receiving all of these chapters at once and then wondering where do I start? 

and;

2 - I also want to make all, or most, chapters available for all coaches before pre-season for 2025 commences so you can factor these new concepts into your plans for next season.

Make 2025 the season you positively turn your coaching practices upside down and re-energise your passion for teaching, coaching and leading your players.