How does that saying go? - "better late than never" I think. Apologies for the delay in producing this 2nd installment of this 3-part series on performance analysis and the coaching process. If you missed the 1st part (highly likely given it was a while ago) then follow the link to watch that video and ...
coaching resources for Australian Football (AFL) and other team sports
Tag Archive: AFL
The 4 steps to develop a strong team culture
Above: The Sydney Swans AFL team is well known for its strong team culture & achievements "Your culture is what you do and say every day" It is fair to say that in team sports establishing a good team culture and environment is high on the priority list of all coaches. ...
Using video technology to improve players decision making
Inspired by some recent research on the use of video to enhance umpires decision making capacity in Australian Football, I thought I would expand a bit more on my practical experiences and demonstrate some examples of how this could work. As some may be aware I am a real advocate for using technology to enhance ...
More thoughts on developing “thinking players”
I recently produced a post on this topic and have since found some more good stuff to follow up with. First came a play in the recent AFL game between Collingwood and Richmond. This play shows experienced Richmond player Chris Newman (no. 17 in the black and yellow) looking away from the ball as ...
Developing a Forward Line in AFL
The video below contains a presentation that I gave about 3 years ago at a level 2 coaching course. It relates to processes and principles for developing a forward line system in Australian Football. Like most of the content here, it is not telling you what forward system to use - that is up to ...
Importance of Transition Play
I have written about transition play in a previous post but wanted to delve into it a little bit more. It is interesting to observe the game of Australian Football evolve at the elite level. Over the last couple of years the ability of the defending team to restrict the time and space available to ...
Coaching Style of Play in AFL – Rob Wiley Videos
Whilst this site covers all team sports it is specifically aimed at Australian Football (AFL). One of the reasons for this was that, when we started the site earlier this year, there was a real lack of quality online resources and information available. Hopefully we are contributing to wards changing that.
10 traits of successful coaches
Earlier in the year I was lucky enough to speak with Patrick Hunt, the coach education expert from the Australian Institute of Sport (you can listen to an audio interview with Patrick on a range of coaching topics in this post). One thing not included in ...
Our 1st Coaching E-book – Developing a Playing System
There hasn't been much action in the way of new posts in the last couple of weeks. The reason for this is we have been busy applying the finishing touches to our 1st ebook called "Developing a Playing System - The 4 Stage Coaching Blueprint". This is a completely ...
Designing drills for AFL – applying a constraints-led approach
For those following some recent posts on training and the use of game-based activities (or "game-sense", "tgfu" etc), I thought it might be useful to provide an example of a practical implementation. In the video presentation below I use Australian Football (AFL) and a handball game as a practical example of how to implement concepts ...