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Send us a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Peter Walton, Gloucester Rugby Academy Manager, Magic Academy founders Russell Earnshaw and John Fletcher. The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:Winners Take Control – Robin Van PersieChampion Minded – Vicky WilliamsonPraise and Affirmation. A deep dive - Professor Stephen RolnickThe High Performance Podcast with Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes - Jonny WilkinsonWHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDFeel Better, Live More – The secret to making new habits stick - BJ Fogg Brain Booster – Karl Morris The Knowledge Project - Learning How to Learn – Barbara OakleyThe Eddie Jones Coaching Podcast – Joe RoffThe Coaching Discourse - Leadership and Culture – with Guy Richardson, Elliott Newell and Dr Simon PhelanThe Sports Psych Show – Helping Players Improve Game Understanding – with Amy Price  The Swan Cast – Rugby Gives you Confidence – Jimmy LowesCOMING UPThe Coaching Discourse - Two Beer Minimum Review of Episode 1 – with Derek O'Riordan, Dr Anna Stodter, Laurie MacDonald, Chris Stott and some bloke called Phil Llewellyn (shameless plus, apologies)If you haven't done so already please assist Dr Anna Stodter with part of her academic research:Research Survey - Analysing the professional development activities of Sports Coaches' during the COVID-19 pandemic – Dr Anna Stodter and Dr Simon PhelanTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textLiza Bird Burgess and LJ Lewis discuss a round of questions about the practicalities of the game. In this episode, they are with Tania Rosser. Tania won more than 50 caps for Ireland, is a level 4 coach, plus played international netball and touch rugby. New Zealand born, she featured in three world cups for Ireland. She currently coaches the Clontarf J1 men's team, balancing that with working as a primary school teacher.Having played and coached representative sport in netball, touch rugby and rugby union, what benefits has this experience across a range of sports provided you with when coaching rugby? How important is it for coaches to keep updated with developments in other sports?Drills v games: the best balance when coaching.Playbooks: what are the pros and cons.How do you manage motivation when working with players?To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Marianne Davies, senior coach developer at UK Coaching, Jenny Coady, coach developer at UK Coaching, , Dr Anna Stodter, Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching and PE at Anglia Ruskin University.The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:Talking to Strangers – Malcolm GladwellThe Learning Journeys Podcast – Lesley McKennaThe Magic Academy – Rob TownsendWHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDThe Empty Brain – Robert Epstein The High Performance Podcast – Ben Ainslie UK Coaching, Understanding Your Emotions – Joe MontemurroAdventure Thinking Live – Paul Pritchard  The Magic Academy - Eilidh GibsonA Move Towards Reconceptualising Direct Instruction In Sports Coaching – Ed Cope and Chris CushionEddie Jones Coaching Podcast – Justin Langer COMING UPThe Coaching Discourse – Episode 1 – Derek O'Riordan, Anna Stodter and Lauire MacDonaldPlease assist Anna with part of her academic research:Research Survey - Analysing the professional development activities of Sports Coaches' during the COVID-19 pandemic – Dr Anna Stodter and Dr Simon PhelanTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textDan Cottrell challenges Nick Wilkinson, Nathan Gosling and Ian Hollingworth around coaching in the current climate.They bounce ideas off each other, share what works and what needs to be adjusted. It's all about practical ways to improve your team, at all levels of the game.Breakdown work: making more effective at Stage DMixing skills zones into game zonesApply the Laws of the game in trainingRefereeing in training and in gamesIs it ever too early to introduce a game plan into trainingSwearing: what is permissible as a coach.To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Mark Bennett, International Coach Developer (PDS Coaching), Stuart Armstrong, Head of Coaching at Sport England and Colin Moran, IRFU Training and Education Manager. The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:How We Think – John DeweyAgainst The Rules – The Coach in Your HeadFreakonomics – Think Like A WinnerWHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDThe Sports Psych Show, Dan Abrahams  – How to Build A Winning Team with Dr Matt Slater The Loose Head – Let's Talk Coaching – Episodes with Pat Lam, Noel McNamara, Andy Friend and Andrew BrowneEighty Percent Mental – Is there such a thing as a winning mindset? With Dave CollinsCOMING UPDesire2Learn Fusion Conference – Taking place 3 times a month throughout October, November and DecemberThe Dot by Peter ReynoldsTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textDan catches up with Nick Elbourne and Tony Wilkinson, who are their club's respective club coaching coordinator and junior chair. With the start of this season creating more than the usual challenges for organisations and their management, we explore some of the main issues they are facing and how they are going to deal with them.Nick is CCC at Wimborne RFC in Dorset, Tony Junior Chair at Scunthorpe RFC in North Lincolnshire.Here are the main areas we discussed:How do you retain coaches and attract coaches to the youngest age groups?How do you support the coaches' development?What are the challenges with training nights and Sunday training under the current Covid-19 regulations?With reduced subs and bar takings, what's got to give in the budget?Where do you go for support now that the RFU has reduced its workforce?What's changed for the better because of lockdown?What must we not forget when we return to training?What are you looking forward to when things are back and up running?To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.This week's guests:John Lawn, head of game development, RFU, Dusty Miller, a performance mentor at the English Institute of Sport and John Widdowson, match official development officer with England Rugby.The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:The Oval World. A Global History of Rugby by Tony CollinsShackleton’s Way by Morrell & Capparell Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariWHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDRugby Reloaded Tony CollinsThe High Performance Podcast with Baroness Michelle Mone  Jake Humphrey and Damian HughesSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind podcast review by Yuval Noah HarariThe Sports Performance Show – Dan Abrahams talks with Stuart WilkinsonEngland Rugby The Eddie Jones Podcast – Eddie and Conor O'Shea talks with Joe SchmidtThe Innovation Show – Tactics for Disruptive Thinking – Jeremy GutscheThe Sports Coaching Podcast – Sam Holmshaw talks with Marianne DaviesThe Sports Coaching Podcast - Sam Holmshaw talks with Damien McGrathTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a text"If you can't connect with people don't expect to make a change"WARNING: This podcast does include swearing.Johnny O'Connor is a strength and conditioning coach with Connacht Rugby. He previously played for the province as well as Wasps and Ireland. In this podcast he chats about:Part 1His background from playing rugby with Connacht & Ireland to S&C soach as the world's oldest intern at Arsenal.Johnny's key takeaways from working with coaches such as Liam Hennessy, Craig White and Warren Gatland.The three key aspects for developing young players - discipline, work ethic and the ability to accept failure and how important it is to set that standard as the coach.Part 2 - The Deep DiveThe importance of creating connections with players but needing to understand yourself to be able to do that.Cultural differences between soccer and rugby.The influence of Shane McDonaldThe environment at Wasps in the early 2000'sThe psychological and emotional toll that builds over a rugby careerWhat rugby can learn from footballTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textIn the podcast this week, Jess is joined by Russell Earnshaw from the Magic Academy and Dusty Miller from the English Institute of Sport. In a summer where not much happened on the pitch, off the pitch was a busy hive of hiring for the top rugby clubs. The team discusses the prevalence of ex-professional players transitioning into coaching and the upsides and downsides that come with this approach. In a discussion around hiring and diversity, they also chat about previous RFU coach development for women and ways to enable more diversity within coaching. They also chat about coaching pathways, mentoring and all things coach development.  @russellearnshaw @DustyMiller_A13To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us a textLiza Bird Burgess and LJ Lewis discuss a round of questions about the practicalities of the game. In this episode, they are with Karen Findlay, known to most in the game as Jocko, who is joint-head coach at Harlequins Ladies.Jocko captained Scotland over 50 times and played in three World Cups, winning 85 caps. She went on to coach Richmond Ladies to five titles in the Premiership before joining London-based Quins in 2017, leading then to cup success in her first season.She also works as a Chief Superintendent with the Metropolitan Police.In this episode, they discuss the following:Shared head coach responsibility: the pros and cons.How much player input do you allow in developing the way you play?How do you create your own identity in an already established brand?What are the overlaps with a professional career and the coaching world: Leadership, strategic direction, people management, language.How do you use these overlaps to your advantage?How do you transition a player to front row?To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!