If players arrive early at training, get them to find another player and a ball and go and do some super-training or wrong-foot kicking etc.

As a coach always explain the aim of each exercise and the match problem it deals with.

To practise specific skills, arrange to arrive early with somebody else and work on those skills, e.g. wrong foot kicking, snapping for goals, etc and / or get one or two mates to come down for an extra night for a few weeks if extra practice is required.

Disposal skills / snapping at goal should at times be deliberately practised after training (i.e. when the legs are wobbly and tired, just as they are in the last quarter of a game).

Training should concentrate on ball handling and skills and not on fitness primarily. Fitness should be acquired by each player in his own time. (I set the fitness goals and keep testing them throughout the season).

Some training exercises are easy to perform but have very little to do with genuine match situations. Therefore, if an exercise is created to deal with a problem that is occurring in a match, it is likely that you will find it difficult to perform initially. It is very important to persist with the exercise, particularly bearing in mind the aim of the exercise, rather than to switch back to doing meaningless, easy-to-do exercises.

In performing exercises, work out the errors that you make and correct them yourself rather than just "going through the motions of the exercise" or waiting for the coach to point out your errors.
Try to perform all exercises at top pace (and only you really know what is your own top pace).

When receiving the football in dry conditions (mark or handball) keep you feet on the ground (ie. don't jump up into the air) take the ball in front of the body (not always on your chest), and do it all at your maximum speed.

When you have completed your part in an exercise, immediately look around and be involved in what is happening with other players, i.e. talk and encourage.

Push the fitness aspect a little harder leading up to the finals, because the finals are harder games played in hotter weather. That sometimes causes some leg weariness in the last few rounds, but is a good investment for the finals. To avoid this leg weariness, it is preferable if you maintain a high level of fitness yourself in your own time in the middle part of the season when it is wet, cold etc. and harder to get motivated.

You will not be able to acquire wrong foot/wrong hand skills by just five or ten minute practice sessions on the training track. The best way to become skilful at wrong/foot/wrong hand disposal is to spend two or three weeks exclusively kicking and hand-balling with the wrong foot at the same time as drinking beer with your left hand, writing with your left hand switching your knife and fork back to front etc. etc. i.e. you need to teach the opposite side of your brain to be efficient.

If it is difficult to get enough space on the oval, let along enough time, to practise counter play, clusters, with-plays etc, sometimes train on different nights or on Sundays.
"Super-training" works on the principle that if you are a fourth grade batsman and you got an opportunity of facing the bowling of Denis Lillee, Brett Lee etc. in the nets for six months, then when you next go out to bat in the fourth grade you will have no difficult with fourth grade fast bowlers. Thus, if you can get used to handling the football coming toward you at very high speed in the air or along the ground you will have much greater facility at handling the ball in a match situation.

Injured players should come to training, even if briefly. This makes the statement that they are still committed to the team, and concerned for the team's performance. They can also help with some exercises

All "special" kicks need to be rehearsed at training, e.g. kicking for the touch, soccering, banana / checkside kicks.