Being a rugby coach means more than knowing how to execute a particular rugby skill, run a rugby drill, or set up a formation. The rugby coaching advice in this section highlights the important issues facing coaches and shows you how to approach them to become a better coach. These articles look at issues such as playing against sides that cheat, coping with problem players, getting a winning mentality and much more.
Get advice and support from experience grassroots rugby coaches, here’s a few quick links to get you started:
This week's guests: Andy Plimer host Rugby Coaches Corner podcast, PE teacher and Concordia University Women's coach and Luke Cromer, host of The Coaches Club podcast, English teacher and basketball coach.
The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.
This week’s content
Any Given Team – Ray McLean
The Coaches Guide to Teaching Study Guide – Luke Cromer MORE
Bird and LJ talk to Lynne Cantwell, the first high performance manager for the women’s game in South Africa.
Lynne is Ireland’s most capped (86) female rugby player. She was appointed to the South African role in February 2021. She has been a member of Sport Ireland’s board since 2019. She is also a qualified physiotherapist. MORE
Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week’s guests: James Hamilton Director of Rugby at Nottingham High School and Andy Drummond Head of Athletic Development at Nottingham High School The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great... MORE
In my previous article, I outlined how I set up my Veo for games and training.
I've now had a greater opportunity to use it for recording games.
Again, I come at this without much recent experience of using video analysis software. I don't have much time to sit down and code games. Instead, I will mainly use the footage to pick out some key points to help inform my coaching and to share moments with the players. MORE
Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.
This week's guests: Cal Jones, Judo Coach and Anthony Hill, Director of Rugby at Nailsea and Backwell RFC, Bristol Bears DPP coach
The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.
This week’s content
Representative Learning Design and Functionality of Research and Practice in Sport – Pinder, Davids, Renshaw & Araujo, (2011)
Return to Contact with Richie Gray - Magic Academy MORE
Spaced learning is probably something you’ve already encountered in life without ever really realising it. It's the idea that it's easier to learn a topic or skill when it’s broken down into shorter periods or chunks. MORE
Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week’s guests: Michael Wright, Southampton FC Academy Coach and The Sports Initiative Podcast Host and David Kilcoyne, PE Teacher and Head of Rugby at Desborough College. The team pick out the key takeaways from... MORE
Video games have unlocked the secrets of flow state. Let’s talk about flow, video games, and how we can make learning more captivating. Ana Lorena Fabrega, educator and EDUprenuer explains more from a school context. MORE
Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.
This week's guests: Tim Jones, director of The Developer Tribe, Stirling Ladies University Football Club, PhD student at Stirling University and Chris Jones, private tutor with Core Learning Tutoring in Jersey, former primary school teacher and mental health first aider.
The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.
This week's content:
Call for Coaches: Coaching Social and Emotional Skills in Youth Sports – Aspen Institute MORE
There’s a big difference between coaching a high ability group of players than low. Well, obviously!
The "learning" literature around sports thinks of these players in terms of experts and novices.
Yet, I don’t think we always make the right adjustments when we are trying to coach the lower ability groups. MORE
