Alan Richardson rejoins pies

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Richardson rejoins Pies
5:01:50 PM Thu 22 September, 2005
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Former Collingwood defender, Alan Richardson, will rejoin the Magpies as Player Development Coach.

Richardson played for the Pies from 1987-88 and 1990-96, playing 114 games, and was desperately unlucky to miss the 1990 grand final through injury. In his first role as a senior coach he led East Burwood to successive flags in the Eastern Football League (1999 and 2000) , and has since gone on to strengthen his reputation with roles at Richmond, Coburg and the Bulldogs.

Richardson will join the Magpies from the Western Bulldogs before the commencement of pre-season training in mid October, and Collingwood’s General Manager of Football Operation, Neil Blame, was delighted to welcome back the Collingwood Life Member, in a role which will see a greater focus on the long term development of our younger players, while being involved in the holistic development of every member of the squad.

“Alan’s role will directly relate to the playing development of all of our players and in particular the younger players.

“Simon Lloyd will remain as the High-Performance Manager, with more focus on the list proper. This will allow Simon to spend more time in his role as Sport Psychologist, while continue to support the development of the younger players.

“Alan’s role will focus on the longer term, year-to-year development of the players, as opposed to the week-to-week development.

“We’ve always had a really good feel for the type of person that Alan is and he has done some really good work at both Richmond and Coburg, and the Bulldogs, and had senior coaching experience.”



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Good stuff, i liked him :thumbsu:
 

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Apparently he was the skills coach at the Bulldogs before coing back to Collingwood.

If that's the case, I'm happy to have him on board.
 

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Timbo from Hotrod's sourced this article from somewhere.

Alan wasn't a gun player, but a good honest one who got the most out of himself. He seems to be pretty cluey too and thinks laterally, so that's a good thing and our drills are outdated from the training sessions I've seen.

Hopefully a good pick up.

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Kicking Drills
4:31:09 PM Mon 1 August, 2005
Alan Richardson, Assistant Coach, Western Bulldogs FC
Q) When designing training drills to improve our teams kicking, do we give our players enough exposure to the actual kicks demanded of today’s game?

One of my roles with the Western Bulldogs is skill acquisition. That is, designing a program that allows every player on our list the opportunity to improve every part of their game (strengths & weaknesses). In this article, my focus is the designing of kicking drills in order to improve this all important skill on match day.

Before you put the whiteboard marker into action, it is important to know what your team does, balanced with what your game plan demands when in possession. You might be surprised at the findings!

I recently studied four of our games from a kicking perspective (2 wins, 2 losses) and averaged the following:-



Preparation to kick (after taking possession prior to kick)
• Kicking off 1-3 steps: 26% of total kicks @ 81% efficiency (this surprised me)
• Kicking off 4-6 steps: 23% of total kicks @ 84% efficiency
• Kicking on the run: 30% of total kicks @ 75% efficiency (run & carry)
• Kicking around the body: 8% of total kicks @ 74% efficiency (in one losing game 36%)

Kicking Target when the kicker had time to make a decision (all zones)

% total kicks %effective
Lead at the kicker 20% 81%
Sideways lead 25% 82%
Stationary 23% 94%
Switch 11% 93%
Away from kicker 6% 75%
Long to advantage 10% 70%
Opposite foot 5% 57%

Kick in general play 44% 78%
Kick over man on mark 25% 82%
Play on from mark/free kick 26% 86%


What does this mean and how did it change any of our kicking drills? As most of our core activities are game sense based, there has been little change to this area of our training. In fact the opposite is true; the more game related the drill the better. Not only are the coaches able to coach the kicking skills under game-like time & space pressure in this type of activity, we are also able to coach the decisions the players make. There is, however, a downside to the whole group, game sense activity. That being the potential lack of possession and resulting opportunity that the players get to kick the ball. In particular the younger (developing) players, who represent the group at any Club, who can least afford not to get the ball in their hands. We have had sessions that have gone for 30 minutes in which some players have literally failed to kick the ball.

Armed with this information, we have made some adjustments to our early session kicking drills. These drills reflect a knowledge of what does happen on game day (previous stats) and what we would like to happen on game day (game plan when in possession).

Other factors that should come into designing kicking drills:
• Opposition pressure on the target.
• More than one option (decision).
• AREA – Out of defence, through the corridor, inside 50 (even warm up drills should be used to work on a particular kick in a specific part of the ground).

For example Instead of simple lane work, you should change it up and expose your group to far more game related kicks

1) xxx --------------------------------------------- xxx

a) Same as above with man in middle. Kick on the turn from the middle (left & right on turn). Opposite leg, Minimal steps from middle & ends, stationary option

b) Two in the middle. Add HB receiver. HB receiver runs across the front of marker and then kicks off minimal steps to either leading or stationary target. Stationary, lead at or to the side options, receiving ball at pace prior to kick

c) As above with 2 v 1 at the end of the line. As the kicker looks for his target, the two targets split from the opposition who follows one target player. Decision making, sideways lead option, Kick across body, opposite leg

c) Lengthen the drill. Middle drops out. Kicker to run and bounce. Target leads hard after kicker bounces (40mk). Kicking at top pace after carrying the ball

So the next time any of your players misses a target at training, you can yell out to them to straighten up or perhaps take more steps. Or you can accept that the game has time and space restraints and they may have to work on their kicking off fewer steps or, heaven forbid, across the body.

“Look at the game” and you will see what you have always seen, do what you have always done.
“Look into the game” and there is a chance you will see something new.

For any questions about this article or any other coaching related issues, feel free to drop me a line on alan.richardson@westernbulldogs.com.au

Alan Richardson is an Assistant Coach at Western Bulldogs with a responsibility for skill acquisition. This article was produced as part of the requirements of the AFL Level 3 Coaching Course
 

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Good article.
I think it is a positive for the club.
I think as far as off field stuff goes we are really getting it together and putting some of our huge amounts of cash to good use
 

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Nardz said:
Richardson played for the Pies from 1987-88 and 1990-96, playing 114 games, and was desperately unlucky to miss the 1990 grand final through injury. :
My God he was unlucky. More deserving to be a Premiership player than even poor Ronnie McKeown. I still maintain he wasnt really "injured" and that his slight injury was only an excuse to drop somebody to make way for Shame Kerrison.
 
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