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Rugby Coach Weekly

Dan Cottrell and guests discuss all the hot topics in grass roots rugby coaching from managing concussion to dealing with parents.

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How to keep players in love with the game

How to keep players in love with the game

Dan welcomes IRFU head of coaching and coach development Colin Moran to the podcast to discuss how best to keep players ... Read more

22 Aug 2018

53mins

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It’s just rugby players making rugby decisions

It’s just rugby players making rugby decisions

I was delighted to catch up with Ed Robinson, attack coach with the Jersey Reds. His team had just served up a fantastic... Read more

20 Mar 2019

48mins

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Coach like a champion: Vital insights into how to improve learning

Coach like a champion: Vital insights into how to improve learning

Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion and world-renowned educational speaker, shows us how we can use simple and e... Read more

2 Feb 2020

42mins

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Power up your coaching and get players to think for themselves

Power up your coaching and get players to think for themselves

Mark Bennett MBE, a leading coach and coach developer, explains how he helps coaches to help players to think for themse... Read more

16 Feb 2020

44mins

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Managing the complexity of coaching

Managing the complexity of coaching

Jamie Taylor, former head of academy at Leicester Tigers and now working with English Institute of Sport, challenges us ... Read more

24 Nov 2019

46mins

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What you can and can't influence as a coach, with Sam Jarman

What you can and can't influence as a coach, with Sam Jarman

Sam Jarman works with coaches and athletes across a number of sports, including golf, rugby, football and cricket.In thi... Read more

3 Nov 2019

35mins

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Let my coaching do the talking

Let my coaching do the talking

An insight into Wasps Ladies Director of Rugby, Giselle Mather’s coaching journey and her top tips and advice for coachi... Read more

24 Dec 2019

45mins

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Progressions, learning from other coaches, who-what-how models and mentoring

Progressions, learning from other coaches, who-what-how models and mentoring

10 Jul 2018

50mins

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Drills good, games much better. But you must know why

Drills good, games much better. But you must know why

Dan talks to experienced Rugby League coach, sports lecturer and coach developer Stuart Wilkinson on how coaching needs ... Read more

4 Apr 2018

33mins

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Science-based approach to better and safer tackling

Science-based approach to better and safer tackling

Dr Sharief Hendricks outlines his research team’s findings on tackling. He says that, through in-depth video analysis, h... Read more

25 Apr 2018

35mins

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When to allow failure and how to coach with uncertainty

When to allow failure and how to coach with uncertainty

Dr Suzanne Brown explains to Dan Cottrell how to understand the way players' minds work so you can coach them more effec... Read more

30 May 2018

48mins

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Why you don't want to be called "The Fridge"

Why you don't want to be called "The Fridge"

Simon Nainby, an experienced S&C coach, coaching consultant and rugby coach, talks about how to give autonomy to you... Read more

1 Aug 2018

43mins

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Hard choices for coaches and players, light bulbs and new ideas for age grade, with Tim Ravenscroft

Hard choices for coaches and players, light bulbs and new ideas for age grade, with Tim Ravenscroft

Tim Ravenscroft, lead coach for his U12’s team in Bristol and also Sector Head Age Grade Rugby at Gloucestershire RFU di... Read more

20 Mar 2019

45mins

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How to use video analysis for training design and player learning

How to use video analysis for training design and player learning

Geraint Davies, who coaches level 5 men's club rugby and school teams from under 11 upwards, also publishes some of the ... Read more

7 Feb 2020

47mins

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Wayne Goldsmith on how to make a real difference to your teams

Wayne Goldsmith on how to make a real difference to your teams

For more than a quarter of a century, international sports performance coach Wayne Goldsmith has influenced the coaching... Read more

20 Mar 2019

45mins

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Would you love to play in the team you coach?

Would you love to play in the team you coach?

I challenge Digby Webb, an experienced schools coach, to explain how to create the best environments for players. 

16 May 2018

35mins

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Andy Stevens on how he became a better all-round coach

Andy Stevens on how he became a better all-round coach

What changes when you do a Level 1 course. How has your "language" in coaching change. Top tips on using demonstrations ... Read more

20 Mar 2019

35mins

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RFU's Head of Age Grade reviews half a game rule: Gains and challenges

RFU's Head of Age Grade reviews half a game rule: Gains and challenges

Mark Saltmarsh, who is Head of Education and Age Grade Rugby at the RFU, tells us how the "Half a game" rule (HGR) has w... Read more

23 Feb 2020

35mins

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Session-energising gold and incredible engagement by using games, with Dale Sidebottom

Session-energising gold and incredible engagement by using games, with Dale Sidebottom

Dale Sidebottom is a leading motivational instructor and coach educator who works across sport and business. He has insp... Read more

20 Nov 2019

1hr 8mins

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Making real gains coaching grassroots and representative players

Making real gains coaching grassroots and representative players

Giles Heagerty, who runs the rugby at a busy school, plus is head coach of England Counties U18 and also Waterloo Ladies... Read more

27 Jun 2018

44mins

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