Sydney organising their "6/6/6 connection" upon a switch of play allowing the defenders, mids and forwards to connect all over the ground for an easy inside 50 lead, mark and goal
Sydney center bounce clearance where Sydney push in from half back to create the stoppage
Sydney again at center bounce clearance getting tapping to Warner on the move who drives the legs for another easy inside 50 lead, mark and goal
Sydney again organising their "6/6/6 connection" this time off a center bounce free kick
After a very pedestrian Friday and Saturday of football, at least I has the Sydney game to look forward too, even if it too was more like a training session as far as competitiveness went, fora good part of the game.
The Swans just wanted the win without any injuries but I'd have thought the Crows would be up to taking a scalp to finish off the very underwhelming season with, but alas I took some clips from it anyway.
In part 1 we look at:
A goal from Sydney teamwork at stoppage
Sydney using a high full ground press and creating the turnover just before the halfway point of the ground
Mills to Gulden playing "between the lines"
Sydney quickly forming their 6/6/6 immediately off a center bounce
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Aussie Rules Training Game Intelligence Challenge.
“You cannot teach skills without knowledge...skills are an accumulation of knowledge” - Daisy Christodoulou (Director of Education, No More Marking)
What this challenge will focus on is the building of your game intelligence through improving your knowledge-of-the game which is the ability to identify patterns of play before, and while, they are occurring, as well as being aware of what you’re affordances (opportunities for action) are, in a given situation.
“Self-regulating players can think for themselves and can solve game situations through their communication with the game environment and their decision-making, as well how they interact with the game” – David Garcia, Coach Educator
By developing your knowledge-of-the-game you can dramatically improve your knowledge-in-the-game, which means a decrease in your decision making time, giving you more time to physically act, resulting in you being involved in more game interactions, and then having more impact when you’re in them.
“Understand how small events can have significant consequences and amplify the chaos on and off the field” – Fergus Connolly, Elite Performance Coach
There are 3 levels to the Game Intelligence Challenge with each level fielding questions/scenarios relating to the back line, wing/ruck positions, the midfield, the forward line and around the ground interactions.
I have my own answers to each question but there are no right or wrong answers – your answers will be based off what YOU see in front of you, what YOU have been exposed to during your playing/coaching experiences and the playing/coaching philosophy YOU have towards footy right now.
“Your real job as a coach is to create more leaders, not more followers”
There will be answers you have that I don’t have and vice-versa, and that’s what a growth mindset is all about – being open to new knowledge that might go against what you currently believe, but being open to differing opinions and beliefs.
As a way to scaffold the content (a proven way to effectively deliver learning material), the challenge will be delivered 1 level at a time.
There is no “marking” of anything, making this a safe zone for thoughts and exploration, especially if some of this is new to you. You’ll give me your answer and then I’ll provide feedback based on that, with the aim to guide you towards a potentially more effective solution - if I have one!
Above all, this is aimed at being a challenging, but fun, activity which is where we can enter a flow state, which is the optimal state for higher level learning.
Questions for all 3 levels are spread across written, image-based, video-based forms and some where you will be required to draw out the answer so get yourself a whiteboard and some different colored markers, which will also help you greatly in working through most of the other questions.
There are 24 questions in level 1, 35 in level 2 and 45 in level 3 for a non-rounded total number of 104 in total.
This is a stand alone product so anyone can purchase it with or without a current membership, and you'll receive it in a PDF via email once payment notification hits my account and I'll email it manually, but it will be on the same day as your purchase.
You can send your answers to my email and/or messenger (preferred as you can more easily send videos and images through there).
Feel free to go into as much detail in your answers you like as this a process-driven project far more then it's an outcome-based project.
Now just to help you out with how I would go about answering the visual questions, let's refer to the 1st game clip in this video:
Here's a quick video of me explaining how I'd go about drawing up this scenario to give my answer:
On an image-based question you can either draw it up like above and answer, or print the image out and draw over it, take a photo/video of your answer and send it in.
Here is 1 question from each of the categories from level 1:
As a defender, how should you position yourself against your opposition forward and why?
Explain what the skinny wing is and what are their roles?
What is the most important role of the ruck player?
What are some team-based offensive tactics you can use at a stoppage?
What can forwards do individually when not in the immediate play?
What are the main teaching points of ground ball technique?
I can't wait to get into this with coaches and players from all over so head to the register page and click on the Game Intelligence Challenge Level 1 and let the games begin!
That Hawthorn 1st quarter, or the first half of the 1st quarter, was simply ridiculous and had the look of a team at the absolute top its game at the moment.
The clearance work from center bounce was unbelievable which just fed them continuously - center clearance to goal back to center clearance!
What we'll cover in this video is:
The Hawks rolling with pretty a much the same formation each time with a slight variation on a few which is probably more of a Tigers adjustment then a Hawks one
Richmond actually winning half of the ruck taps cleanly but then being sharked by the Hawks quick as a flash
Once the Tigers were on the back-foot then the Hawks started to get a midfielder forward of the stoppage to get out the front
The Tigers weren't as pedestrian in there as it first looked and they made some adjustments on the fly but the Hawks just had too momentum in there at that time
It's season 2024 so of course the 11th placed team beats one of the league's hottest team and flag favorite but still get knocked out of the finals race.
The Pies have looked a lot better in recent weeks but simply took too long to regain their DNA and therefore form to push into the top 8 where they could have been a dangerous opposition for any of the other 7 teams in there.
With a dead rubber Friday night v Melbourne this might be the last game on Collingwood this season so today we look at:
The over-the-back Collingwood kick out has again been scouted, this time being cut off in the air by the Lions
Quaynor playing as a very deep winger, then Ah Chee losing goal side of him and at the top of the goal square for a goal
Nick Daicos using a running pattern he's gone to almost exclusively at center bounce as it has multiple 2nd options off the back of it
Nick Daicos vacuuming the Brisbane defenders at stoppage creating a hit zone for the McCreery goal to seal the game
OK, maybe we just need to accept that this is the Swans in 2024 - terrible in first quarters but then being more than capable of having 2 big quarters of footy where they score they crazy and still register 100pts most games.
It's clear they don't know what to do about those first quarters, with John Longmire constantly saying in press conferences that "we'll keep trying things around that" but the results still being the same.
For those keeping count our biggest quarter time margin was 25pts v the Hawks back in round 7 when they were terrible so we've never really blown anyone out of the water straight out of the gates and we've given up 5 goals in the first quarter 8 times.
But it all fits with the season 2024 has turned out to be though doesn't it?
In part 1 of this game analysis we look at:
Sydney kick out and how to use your deepest forward off the kick out formation
Details matter
Sydney midfielders on the move enabling huge forward 50 pressure
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