I just moved to england and my kid is enrolled in football training as a u8. We are three sessions in and the sessions have surprised me a bit. One session they sat around while they learnt the positions and abbreviations (what does cdm and gk stant for?) Another session involved a game of tag without a ball followed by being split into 3 teams where two teams would have a match and the third would just sit around.

I was a bit surprised by this given england is a football giant and this is a football mad region. It made me wonder how common this is in australia post the introduction of the curriculum

Have any kids here had their kids go to australian youth training have

1) excersizes which are age innapropriate and static. E.g. sitting around learning position abbreviations. Or even xi v xi at u8)
2) exercizes where some kids arent doing anything. Like the third team sitting around watching. Or that old school exercize i would grow up with where you line up and two people at a time tries to dribble past the other. Or lining up to take penalties one at a time
3) non football activities where u dont have a ball st your feet like that game of tag?

I'm not sure of the age range of us on this forum. I'll explicitly say now: I'm 33, so my latest exposure to youth football training (directly) goes to 15 years ago.
1) definitely not.
2) Yes. A common drill I'd see, and I have to get my thoughts right here to remember exactly how it went, but would be three lines of players (and GK in goals) where one starts with the ball, they do a one-two, and then someone takes a shot. Long time ago, I can't remember exactly how it was. But stuff like that.
3) I do remember doing non-football activities, but I don't remember exactly what they were... 33 years old and getting a bit senile already!

Might be something I'll chat to my brother about - his boy is in U14s now, and is a bit more directly involved.

that would be interesting! I just did the english volunteer coach training out of curiosity