The Magic Academy
John Fletcher, Russell Earnshaw
Supporting coaching wizards! Rusty and Fletch love to hang with rockstars from the coaching world and get them sharing through some pretty cool questions
Episodes
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Aug 20, 2019 • 59min
Season 3 - Episode 7 with Geoff Webster
Rusty chats with Fiji general manager Geoff Webster
Aug 13, 2019 • 46min
Season 3 - Episode 4 One Year In - With Rusty and Fletch
The lads sit down after a long day at Sedbergh to reminisce and reflect on 1 year of The Magic Academy and the million steps a day that Rusty is currently doing!On the agenda... Rusty's admin, Fletch's work on's and a job application for the Crusaders!
Aug 6, 2019 • 51min
Season 3 - Episode 3 with Crista Cullen
The lads are grafting hard at the famous Sedbergh Camp this week and Rusty took the opportunity to catch up with Crista Cullen, Hockey player, drag flicker, conservationist, coach and living in a house with Fletch and Rusty for 4 days in Sedbergh....oh and by the way its probably cool to mention she's a Triple Olympian,Gold & Bronze Medallist as well as an MBE!
Jul 23, 2019 • 48min
Season 3 - Episode 2 with Shane Fletcher
In this weeks episode - Rusty chats with Canterbury Crusaders Team manager Shane Fletcher.... My favourite expression in this pod...???? "Saturate them with performance"Love Magic Stig
Jul 16, 2019 • 48min
Season 3 - Episode 1 with Andy Plimer
Rusty is in Canada this week and catches up with Andy Plimer, Family man, Rugby coach, Teacher, Twitcher (Life list: 1052) Really bad hockey player, IPA enthusiast & Creator of @RugbyCoachsCn podcast (The second best podcast in the world!)
Jul 9, 2019 • 1h 18min
Season 2 -Episode 22 with Elliot Newell
Rusty chats with Sports psych Elliot Newell, by his own admission a sucker for a story!! Rusty also claims this is his most favourite podcast yet.....
Jul 9, 2019 • 52min
Season 2 -Episode 23 with Andy Abraham
For our season 2 finale, Rusty chats with Andrew Abraham... Head of Subject at Carnegie School of Sport, nurturer of young coaches, Sunday morning dad (and coach) and Status Quo mega-fan!
Jul 2, 2019 • 1h 14min
Season 2 -Episode 21 with Wayne Smith
Rock Star alert!! Rusty can't contain his excitement in this weeks MA podcast where he gets to ask questions of one of his coaching heroes! Wayne Smith joins us for what we believe is his first ever podcast!! (Need a fact check for that though!!)
Jun 25, 2019 • 33min
Season 2 -Episode 20 with Rusty and Fletch
In this weeks podcast Rusty and Fletch continue the conversation around gamification
Jun 18, 2019 • 37min
Season 2 -Episode 19 with Mo Bobat
With the Cricket world cup in full flow, Rusty chats with Mo Bobat, Talent Identifiction rockstar for the ECB.
