AFLW INSIGHTS 2021- ROUND 9 PART 3

COLLINGWOOD FORWARD RUN

MY TAKE

I can't remember a time when Newman ran up the ball, gathered it, turned and then kicked a goal as she gets all her goals running up and then back onto the ball which I wouldn't have thought was a huge secret but in this instance the Crows player loses contact with her very early and is drawn to the ball, losing sight of Newman completely.

Allen is a quality defender too so I'm very confident leaving her 1on1 anyway and witha chaos ball like that, I'd be staying goal side of my opponent, especially Newman, at all times and force her to create goals in different ways then she's used to.

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AFLW INSIGHTS 2021 - ROUND 9 PART 2

This post will look at center square clearances for North Melbourne in quarters 3 and 4 after looking at quarters 1 and 2 yesterday.

I make a point to watch what the Roos do at center ball ups because they're always up to something!

They're not as active at around the ground stoppage ball ups but there's far more room to work with for center square ball ups so you can have nmore of an affect on what happens there.

Finally Emma King is the premier tap ruck in AFLW and it's not even remotely close, with the ability to tap to any position on the clock against any other ruck in the competition and with 2 players on the move at all times and the other holding their own and their opponents space, allows relatively large pockets of space to be utilised in these situations.

QUARTER 3: SCORE 14/13...

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AFLW INSIGHTS 2021 - ROUND 9

2 FULL POSTS OF NORTH MELBOURNE CENTER CLEARANCES

North Melbourne have a banger of a midfield group consisting of elite ball winners and probably the most experience by far in regards to games played and coupled with their unselfishness and cohesion, are near impossible to defend against at center ball up plays.

I've used a few of these already in past insight articles but here's a focus on last weekend's game against the Dockers where they used a different strategy for each 12 center clearance opportunities winning all but 1 of them.

Quarters 1 and 2 today and Quarters 3 and 4 tomorrow.

QUARTER 1: SCORE 0-0...

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SYDNEY SWANS - 23 INSIDE 50 MARKS

I'm a big Swans man from the Capper days and what I saw on Saturday night v the Lions was nothing short of ridiculous.

I knew we'd be a lot better this year after blooding everyone last year but wasn't banking a win against the Lions up there without Buddy but I never tip against them anyway.

We couldn't have managed double figues in marks inside 50 at all last year but to get 23 in this game was astounding so for my own amusement I wanted to see how we managed it.

I've used a very basic grading system of sorts being short/med/long leads and kicks to get an insight of how it went into the forward 50.

1st QUARTER - 4 INSIDE 50 MARKS

#1 - Isaac Heeney x medium lead, medium kick, contested mark for a goal

#2 - Sam Reid x long bomb kick, contested mark for a behind

#3 - Josh Kennedy x free man, short kick for a behind

#4 - Logan McDonald x long kick to advantage, contested mark for a behind.

*** ---- represents running movement pattern and ____ represents ball movement pattern ***

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AFLW ROUND 8 - KICK OF THE WEEK

Let me know who and why.

AFLW INSIGHTS - ROUND 8 PART 4

BRISBANE LIONS OPPOSITE FOOT KICK

MY TAKE

No super-sonic tactic used here and something I've covered in these insights before - having the opposite foot kick in your kicking tool kit.

As you can see here the ball drop isn't pretty and the kick isn't pretty but it does the give the receiver who is also under immediate pressure, a good chance to play the ball to their advantage. 

The most overlooked part of this I beleive, is not being able to perform the action of kicking on your opposite foot but for it to be an automatic in your brain so that you don't prescious time thinking I've got to get this ball to there and trying to do it on your preferred foot then relaising you can't actually do it on your preferred foot and then having to switch your stance, ball grip and ball drop to your opposite foot - in which time you'll be under too much physical pressure to get the kick away.

I suggest coaches stronly encourage oppsosite foot kicks in game simulated play when they are really needed, because that's when you'll use them in games.

I'd orgainise whatever scoring system I'm using to include opposite foot kicks when under pressure if that player is the best option at that time.

And lastly, at times "do not use the ball hits the ground turnover" rule to allow for grubby opposite foot kicks that are used to simply get the ball from point A to somewhere close to point B.

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AFLW INSIGHTS - ROUND 8 PART 3

MORE SOLUTIONS + AFFORDANCES = BETTER DECISION MAKING

MY TAKE

Davidson is a monster kick and her teammates know it.

Along with being able to gain territory through shear distance, having this ability also opens up far more solutions for her as well.

Most AFLW players can only kick maybe 2/3rds of the distance Davidson does her which severly cuts down the amount of solutions and affordances they have to keeping possession of the footy, as they would have to kick into this:

Having the ability to kick over that group of players means your ground scanning and vision range is greater than the average AFLW player right now, who doesn't see this solution because they don't look for it because they can't use it.

By building great variability in the basic skills of football (kicking, handballing, marking, ground balls), you'll also dramatically increase the maount of solutions you have in any given situation and more you'll have more affordances available to you which will also improve ability to process more information which gives you more details to work with to make your decision. 

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