Recent content by cptkirk

There's no 1 activity you can do for this unfortunately but hear are some thoughts off the top of my head. 1 - Some kids are far more competitive then others and will stand out in these instances and you can't fast track competitiveness and as we've all seen, often these same kids develop into...

I've ran my site called aussiesrulestraining.com since 2009 initally with a focus on strenth and conditioning but now 99% focused on coaching and has been for the last 5 - 6 years. My tip is for jr coaches is it isn't what drills you do, but why you're doing them

I "did" my knee in the last game of the season in 2015 aged 37 and returned for praccy games the following season but when I say "did" my knee I was never gonna get surgery and therefore never got it checked out to what I actually did but the mechanism of the injury and the ensuring pain...

The stop/wait/pass thing is a by-product of the 6/6/6 so generally once we exit say defensive 30 and we can really use width as the ground opens up, then ideally we want all forwards 60m from the ball, mids in the middle an then the backs running from behind and being used until about half way...

It's not all or nothing just heavily favoured towards an offensive an attacking style as there's still a strong defensive plan that goes along with it and yeah we'll iron some crinkles over the pre-season and make it even better on both sides of the ball. Outsiders,and probably a lot of people...

You're on it! So another year of training this game style should hopefully cover some of those defensive cracks we saw last season but it's strictly pressure based at the ball and if that's off then the Gold Coast game and elimination final 1st half is what it looks like

My thoughts after reading all this for those that care: KEY DEFENDER In a perfect world we’d have a key defender in the mold of our other young guns having played 30 – 50 games and ready to hold down CHB/FB from now on but we don’t and we can at least cover it for now via Rampe/Melican/Fox...

Melb's game style and our game style are pretty much polar opposites

Pertracca will never be that good again so considering he's on the downward spiral surely a trade for an up and coming youngster in Dawson is in the mix?

A clip from the Geelong game in round 9 at the SCG showing us defending width when they switch then depth when they go forward + how our "lanes" work for us both defenisvely and offensively. Happy to dicuss any of these clips by the way

This gives us a look at what our preferred formation loooks like tooeep the ball trapped in our forward 50/half In short we want tall forwards at the back closest to goal, our small forwards 10 -15m in front of them for hit up leads if the opp defend deep and we kick long OR to crumb we...

My thoughts for those who care: Parker - will get done 1st Dawson - will get done 2nd Hewitt - unfortunately 3rd option and it's not like he wouldn't know it but I see him as our JPK inside bull replacement so hopeful he can take a moderate-ish deal for 2 years then once JPK is probs done and...

Yeah, far more attacking Change #1 - We try not to defend from way back in defensive half as it's a long way back to our goal from there where turnovers and opposition pressure is higher. Now once we get a mark we roll the forwrads deep into 50, wings/mids to half forward-ish and instead of...

Here's a clip from the weekend's game looking at how once we get a nark and can dictate play, we get our forwards deep and our wings relatively deep and wide to create space for runners from behind which then feeds our pressing ability at the ball and the next kick in play We do this all the...

I'm not getting to the Ponsfird anytie soon but watching the Richmiond game this year from up high at the G, you could really see some of the new things we'd implemented and really pushed me to watch harder for all our other games to see if I could work out how to do it and possibly use it for...