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Pre-season | Week 1: Back on track

Pre-season | Week 1: Back on track

Start the season with fun and fitness. Combine skills, conditioning and games to help your players fuel their desire to get fitter and re...
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6 ways to make shy players more confident

6 ways to make shy players more confident

Rugby is a rough and tumble game so you wouldn’t think it attracts shy players. But, it does. They don’t engage with the others and never...
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Survey of session plans

Survey of session plans

A review of 34 different session plans, comparing and finding similarities and differences
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Score tries with slow wingers

Score tries with slow wingers

Even if you don’t have speedsters, you can still score tries on the flanks by working on “holding your feet”, stressing defences and usin...
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How to beat your bitter rivals

How to beat your bitter rivals

Certain matches will motivate you and your players more than others and you will particularly want to win these ones. Here are four ways ...
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Goldilocks ruck numbers

Goldilocks ruck numbers

Upskill your players’ understanding of their roles at the ruck so they know when to compete for the ball and when to stay out of the ruck.
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3 simple ways to make sure your players are happy

3 simple ways to make sure your players are happy

Having a happy team is one of the most fulfilling coaching experiences. Here are three ways to ensure your team plays and trains with a s...
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Better questions to improve your coaching craft

Better questions to improve your coaching craft

Ask the right questions to build relationships through understanding athlete’s motivations, areas of importance for their development and...
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Rugby Coach Weekly Issue 267

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  • Fun tackling games: Circle and Bull Pups
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    Five things NEVER to say at half time

    Five things NEVER to say at half time

    When you have five minutes with your team, there are plenty of things you want to say, but there are five things you should definitely not ...
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    Two- v one-handed ball carry

    Two- v one-handed ball carry

    Two-handed ball carry has to make sense to the players at the time. When they are younger, it makes more sense because there’s less contact ...
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    50 22 Correct less, coach better

    50 22 Correct less, coach better

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    50 22 Coach belief, not just skill

    50 22 Coach belief, not just skill

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    How to create creativity through the right challenges

    How to create creativity through the right challenges

    From Under 8s right through to teams like the inventive French team, La Rochelle, coaches are looking to encourage more creativity from ...
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    Beef up your defence

    Beef up your defence

    Your aim is to prevent the attacking team’s “go forward”. You do this by being set and ready more quickly and then going forward yourselves ...
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    The 5 Fs for ball carriers

    The 5 Fs for ball carriers

    The battle that takes place after the tackle is one of the most underappreciated areas of the game. The 5 Fs give you some ideas as to what ...
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    Stay in the whole game

    Stay in the whole game

    Your match fitness and game plan can win games in the last quarter. Not only do you have to be fitter than the other side, you also have to ...
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    Unleash your quick winger

    Unleash your quick winger

    Use the “block pass” to a player coming through from behind the front line of attackers.
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    Quick hands warm-up

    Quick hands warm-up

    Develop quick realignment skills, spacing and then the ability to run straight onto the pass with this simple warm up.
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    Selecting the best backs moves

    Selecting the best backs moves

    You need to learn the backs moves that best work for your team and their skillset. Adapt ones you already know, but also consider how you ...
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    Five ways to deal with disruptive players

    Five ways to deal with disruptive players

    The make-up of your squad is a wide variety of abilities and personalities, which is good because you don’t want clones. But there are ...
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    Use PHV to make better training decisions for your players

    Use PHV to make better training decisions for your players

    Peak height velocity measurements can reduce the number of assumptions you make about the current development stage of your players and ...
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    Teach it or let them find it?

    Teach it or let them find it?

    How to balance explicit and discovery coaching for powerful learning outcomes.
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    Footwork to steal yards

    Footwork to steal yards

    Put obstacles in front of your players to help them develop footwork before contact. They need to go forward and sideways as they aim to ...
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    High ball catch confidence

    High ball catch confidence

    Win the defensive battle for aerial supremacy by challenging for high balls with confidence and technical ability.

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