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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 t...
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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 al...
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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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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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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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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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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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Make yourself a successful off-the-field coach

Make yourself a successful off-the-field coach

Building better coaching connections away from training can make your on-field training more effective and your overall outcomes more imp...
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Rugby Coach Weekly Issue 263

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    Give, go, get the ball back

    Give, go, get the ball back

    Get your switching player in motion to engage the defence. After they have changed their running line and passed the ball, they aim to get ...
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    “Plus one” play

    “Plus one” play

    Attack the gain line in pairs, with the ball carrier using a late pass (“plus one”) to their support player. The passer can support the ...
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    My best tackling warm-up

    My best tackling warm-up

    Build the basic skills of tackling into your warm-up to develop player technique and get them prepared for the rest of the session.
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    Purposeful, engaging core skills warm-ups

    Purposeful, engaging core skills warm-ups

    Kids are not the only ones with short attention spans – all players get bored if they are repeating the same thing.
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    10v10 tactical approach game

    10v10 tactical approach game

    This is an example of an U18 rugby session with ideas how to further develop tactical awareness, help problem solving and be flexible with ...
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    A tactical games approach to teaching games

    A tactical games approach to teaching games

    Improve your players understanding of game play and decision-making by using a tactical games approach.
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    When skill outruns understanding

    When skill outruns understanding

    How to help players know when to use their skillset.
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    How hinge questions are transforming my coaching

    How hinge questions are transforming my coaching

    Create questions that help you understand if your players understand.
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    How honesty and values makes players trust you

    How honesty and values makes players trust you

    Everyone comes with their own values, but you have to be flexible based on your playing resources. Be honest with your players and adjust ...
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    Performance pads for player engagement

    Performance pads for player engagement

    Here’s how I used an evidence-based approach to reflection to give my team realistic and practical ways to improve their performance.
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    Why players stall

    Why players stall

    Talented players often stall not from laziness, but from overloaded minds, unclear roles, and unhelpful coaching environments.
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    Don’t start next season this season

    Don’t start next season this season

    Coaching ahead might feel smart, but the evidence suggests it rarely works. For age-grade players, the fastest route to next season ...
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    Safe uncertainty: the best environment to train in

    Safe uncertainty: the best environment to train in

    Richard Shuttleworth, a top high performance coach development leader, along with his colleague Professor Keith Davids, suggest that it’s ...
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    Coaching with clarity

    Coaching with clarity

    How understanding neurodivergent players can make every rugby session calmer, clearer, and more connected for everyone.
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    5 coaching lessons from Ben Herring

    5 coaching lessons from Ben Herring

    Ben Herring’s Coaching Culture podcast has had some of the best performance coaches in rugby. But what lessons can grassroots coaches glean ...
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    Coaching beyond the drill – How soft skills really win game

    Coaching beyond the drill – How soft skills really win game

    Coaching beyond the drill - How soft skills really win game

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