Skill Testing for Juniors
February 16, 2007 by John Northey · Leave a Comment
If I could go back to the early years of my coaching, one thing I would do is regularly test the skills of my players, so that I could establish the strengths and weaknesses of the group. There have not been many skill test documented in our sport and the best that would be done is players having 10 shots a goal from different angles to give them a score for accuracy.
Over the last few seasons it has been necessary to test players for the All Australian pre-draft camp and players on AFL club lists.
Soft Tissue Injury
February 16, 2007 by John Northey · Leave a Comment
Searching for solutions to the footballers arch enemy. The dreaded “hammy”.
When I was asked to provide a football based article for this website, it didn’t take long to come up with a topic that most people in the football would have come across numerous times – hamstring strains. These injuries seem to attack an alarming number of our players, and the horror stories and magic cures find their way into the media through the course of most seasons.