Imagination inspires creativity. Over the years I've seen all sorts of things on the hockey pitch from tyres to rubbish bins, rebound nets, tackle pads, chairs and swimming noodles all somehow providing some added feature to make a drill...
After raising the idea in my last column that it might be a good idea to reunite drills and gameplay, one comment in particular stood out.
“But how did we get here?"
The answer sees me come to the defence of...
Golf and gardening are two popular pastimes for people of my age - and I am fortunate enough to be able to combine both. Interspersed with the normal challenge of getting the little white ball up the fairway, onto...
In the second part of a special series on junior hockey coaching, TODD WILLIAMS says that drills must now drive sessions over endless gameplay
There’s a case to be made to say that coping with Covid has brought the opportunity for...
In the first part of a special series on junior hockey coaching, TODD WILLIAMS asks why gameplay alone won’t develop players technically
Honesty, they say, is the best policy. However, as happily as the word is thrown about in sport,...
Columnist TODD WILLIAMS says Kookaburras have been less insistent on goal chasing in bid for first Olympic title in 17 years
The semi-final win over Germany was one of the most controlled performances I have ever seen by an Australian...
At the Rio 2016 Olympics, the triumvirate of Sophie Bray, Alex Danson and Lily Owsley fomed part of the drive which took Team GB towards a mesmeric women's hockey gold.
Owsley has maintained her speed and class in the class...
The Olympic selection process is an emotive subject. TODD WILLIAMS looks at how to be a better, stronger person in dejection
With pushbacks finally looming at the Olympics, focus can now shift to performances and results and away from that...
THP columnist Todd Williams assesses how Netherlands and Germany advanced to the European Hockey Championships men's final
While falling short of the Belgium v Germany game at the 2019 Euros in terms of sheer quality, it was great to see...
THP columnist and coach Todd Williams picks out the main points from the European Hockey Championships in Amsterdam
More flexible, more agile. Holland women's coach Alyson Annan has concocted a better team than the one that competed in the Rio...