Who would have thought the Blues could be knocking on the door of the 10? But after a complete turnaround in their game style and a couple of selection changes, here we are! The Cats never really have to worry once they get 5 – 6 early season wins as they always have a home-dominant...
FOOTY SCHOOL
During the week the article linked below was published by AFL Media reporter Sarah Black: The AFLW skills hothouse helping clubs and players grow In it, she describes the Skills Hothouse, a set of learning sessions designed specifically for teaching skill. Footy School. Earlier this year I attended the AFL Coaches Forum (posted about here...
PERCEPTION PART 2 – CASE STUDY
Last week I posted notes from an article by Mark O’ Sullivan on perception and then came along a part 2 so here’s the notes from that one as well! if you’ve never seen them play before then start with 15mins of 8v8 to develop your knowledge of the environment to inform you on how...
ROUND 11 GAME ANALYSIS
My tipping took a bit of a hit this weekend with the upsets where I tipped 4, including Richmond. Everything was going well until Saturday where North finally beat someone not in the bottom 5, Sydney finally losing after not looking not as good the past 2 – 3 weeks as they were previously, the...
MY YEARLY JUNIOR FOOTBALL POST
Once a year I come across a polarising piece on junior football that I think deserves to be highlighted and here’s this year’s edition: The OP is right, something does need to be done about this at junior level and if you’re not part of the solution then you’re part of the problem. It has...
PERCEPTION – THE REAL GAME IQ OF FOOTBALL
When we talk about the elite players, yes we’re talking about physical abilities but what leads to those is perception. The perception of what’s happening around them (knowledge in the game) and patterns of play that have happened beforehand (knowledge of the game) that enables players to perceive and process game inf0rmation in a split...
SYDNEY v COLINGWOOD GAME ANALYSIS
A very, very interesting game Friday night between the Swans and Pies. The Pies are THE most organised team in the AFL and with a team down on personnel, a solid plan was always going to be in place for this one, especially around taking away corridor use for the Swans, that North were able...
BRISBANE/CARLTON + GEELONG/COLINGWOOD GAME ANALYSIS
Funny game this one where Brisbane pulled a Carlton and Carlton pulled a…reverse Carlton! That being said the Lions clearly took the foot off the pedal in the 2nd half but the Blues did play well, albeit for their usual 2 quarters. The Cats have been going OK and the Pies just going but I...
NORTH MELBOURNE v SYDNEY GAME ANALYSIS
My local team had the bye this past weekend which worked out perfectly in actually getting to see the Swans play live in Melbourne and to top that up I was able to sit in a box directly behind the goals whicvh was elite! North were very good in this one, had a chance to...
SYDNEY v CASEY VFL GAME ANALYSIS
The Sydney Swans/Casey Demons VFL game was televised over the weekend so I thought I’d give it a look to see the level of AFL/VFL alignment in regards to game modelling for the Swans. It’s safe to say that the alignment is very good with a huge preference to handball chain through the middle of...