GAA COACHING: PASSING ON THE RUN with Marty Clarke

In this Video form Steven Poacher's excellent Coaching Clinic in Newry on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021, Marty Clarke (one of the coaches on the day) runs an activity here where it's very much a case of what you see in the video so no great explanation needed. Three players go from one end and a fourth from out wide. The three who are beside each other exchange the ball with the stationery player and keep going and then exchange the ball with the second stationery player (who in this video is Marty himself)...the fourth player who has made a run out wide gets the pass from Marty and keeps going. The drill starts the opposite side in the exact same manner...this time Marty is the first pivot player etc. There is a nice progression then where the players have the option of if they want to use the two pivot players or if they just want to continue passing among themselves. This progression makes the exercise very match realistic as there is an element of decision making added.....now the players have two options when they get the ball and need to decide for themselves each time which is the best decision to make.
NOTE: Marty puts big emphasis here on timing the run...you'll notice at one stage that the wide runner has gone too wide and Marty has to tell him to slow down his run somewhat so that he not ahead of the oncoming pass!