SYDNEY v BRISBANE GAME ANALYSIS + A SPRINKLE OF GEELONG

Some up and down results from our first full round of football this weekend from the Tigers major upset on Thursday night all the way to the usual hot Gold Coast start before falling away late-season and plenty in between.

My Swans are struggling a bit so far on wins and losses (o-2!) but could have stolen opening round and was in a winning position in round 2 against the probable top 2 favorites for 2025 but we'll find our feet at some point.

In this analysis post we look at Sydney/Brisbane and touch on Geelong at the end as I just had to go back and watch that 3rd quarter sequence from Murphy Reid after listening to it on the radio on the way back from a way too-hot practice match.

In this 10min video we look at:

• Sydney with a set play from defensive 50 off of a play restart from injury
• Multiple Sydney players losing Bailey in the mid 50 for a crumbing goal deep inside forward 50
• Multi-layered sequence of Sydney leaving direct opposition and being covered by surrounding teammates
• Sydney coming forward at the ball carrier to change their kick
• Sydney using a trigger to come forward and press into the opposition receiver
• Murphy Reid perfecting leading patterns in his very first game!

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COACHING MODERN FOOTBALL - 5 DAY, 50% OFF SALE!

                                                       

We're all about to start practice games against actual opposition (36 degrees at Digger's Rest will be hell on earth for this 46 year old!) where as coaches we'll be seeing if what we've tried to implement with our players over the pre-season, has carried over to games and to what extent.

Form these games we'll find gaps in what we've taught the players and what they've learnt + other gaps in our team's performance where more needs to be added to really make your team's performance click over the next 20 - 25 weeks.

The Coaching Modern Football series consists of 17 chapters with each one focusing on a specific phase of play encountered in every game of football you'll coach and ply in this year.

Once reflecting on your practice games you might find you need to insert some better strategies to make a phase of play or set of tactics even more robust.

This 5 day sale will run from today (Wednesday, March 12th) until Monday morrning (March 17th).

All chapters are at the lowest price they have been since I released them, and the lowest price they'll ever be.

$15 - Forward Press Defense, Lane Running, 666 Connection, Forward Play, Playing Between the Lines, Exploiting the Stand Rule, Ruck Runs

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GWS v COLLINGWOOD GAME ANALYSIS

It's never as good as it seems (GWS and Callaghan), and it's never as bad as it seems (Collingwood, listless).

Let's hope for at least for 1 of these teams that is the case as it's a trench-like drop off if it is!

 In this 6min, 4 clip analysis we look at:

• Nathan Buckley talking about Collingwood's center bounce clearance method
• The actual clearance Bucks' talks about and we've looked at this plenty of times before
• GWS mult-layers forward half defense
• Collingwood staple kick out tactic but intercepted by guess who?

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SYDNEY v HAWTHORN GAME ANALYSIS

In what has turned out to be the last Saturday without any sort of footy for 9 months and a very slow day at that, here's my game analysis clips from last night's game while I have ample time to put it together and post it.

Impressive from the Hawks to win in a different way then they were last season and after Sydney came right back at them and getting close enough to pinch it regardless of those horrendous 2-brown jumpers!

We're all bored from not having footy to watch so I'll make this one free to provide somewhat of a footy fix.

In this 11 min video we look at:

• Sydney's multiple layers of pressing forward defense
• Sydney breaking the Hawks forward half defense
• Leading patterns and cohesiveness of the Sydney forwards
• Sydney not pressing forward on defense like they normally do resulting in a goal for the Hawks
• Elite small forward craft from Papley
• Sydney loosing Sicily during Hawks transition transition offense slow play 
• How to press forward into the ball carrier when they have space to run through
• Wicks' double tackling effort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0sVhxGoRno

 

10 NEW STREAMLINE TRAINING ACTIVITIES

                                          

I haven't posted one of these for ages so just remember that these training activities simply have a brief description and that's it - no images, diagrams and pictures to accompany them. Let's get to activities 122 - 131.

#122 -PASSING CIRCLE

#123 - PUSH UP TO SCORE

#124 - NO CORRIDOR

#125 -  8 ROTATE

#126 - PIVOT PLAYER

#127 - END ZONE

#128 - NUMBERS

#129 - HANDBALL TO KICK

#130 - 1-0 GAME

#131- 3-2-1 GAME

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RELATIONSIM v POSITIONISM

                                                           

These 2 terms are never really mentioned in AFL conversations, not with this specific wording anyway, but in Soccer there are constant Twitter threads on 1 or the other or the comparison of both approaches.

That's not to say they aren't used in AFL, they most definitely are, we just don't use the same jargon.

These notes come from a Twitter account called @ogpinions, which is a soccer analysis-based account so let's have a look at the 2 approaches.

RELATIONISM

• Refers to the relationships and interactions between players in an attempt to develop self-regulating players who can solve their own problems without coach intervention and who can adjust to variable game conditions
• Player position’s should not be predetermined but should depend on game variables such as opposition and teammates with the player being in control of their position
• Top-down guidance is associated with relationism where coaches provide game situations for players to solve and observe their natural tendencies through guidance
• It is not against positional play but is against methods that inhibit self-regulating players
• Once players develop positional understanding then self-regulation should be prioritised

POSITIONISM

• Is defined by positions on the field and from a belief that a fixed, static concept is the source from which everything else can be derived
• May not develop self-regulating players as some, most or all solutions are already provided to them and they don't develop the ability to think for themselves
• Top down control is associated here where the coach provides the solution and the players execute it and they follow a specific game model
• Can lead to a lack of adaptability where players struggle when teams behave differently then they thought they would
• The main difference is the role of the coach

Now that we have a bit more information on what these both are then what teams do you think bias one or the other?

AFL PRE-SEASON WEEK 2 GAME ANALYSIS

                         

In week 2 of the pre-season games we look at:

• Gold Coast stoppage formation on secondary center ball ups
• Sydney with multiple layers of pressing forward defense 
• Brisbane wing run
• Collingwood up to their old tricks at center bounce clearance
• Lukosius kick = Perfection
• Port Adelaide using handball to draw defenders in then breaking them

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