The Journey of a Grassroots Rugby Coach (More Tracksuits less Business Suits)

This weeks guest is Cole Mooney. Cole is curently coaching at Pakaranga Rugby Club in New Zealand. During our chat we spoke about creating haits during training and increasing your players capacity and conscienceness. Cole also spoke about to create relationships with players and finding a common ground. We also chatted about as a coach you need to be able to be uncomfortable and vunerable with th...

This weeks guest is Cam Treloar. Cam is the current coach at West Harbour in the Shute Shield. He also coached at Warringah as an Assistant Coach for a few years 2023 was his firstyear as a Head Coach and he reflected a lot and his first year. He spoke about changing clubs to enhance his coaching career and transitioning from player to coach shortly after he finished playing. He spoke about how he...

This weeks guest is Sean Hedger (Hedge). Hedge is the Director of Rugby at IRAA. He coached Sydney Uni to a victory in the Shute Shield in 2022 and was also named joint Shute Shield coach of the year the same year. He has also coached extensively in Japan as well as Bond Uni and the Melbourne Rebels. During our chat we spoke about Flexibility of thought during your coaching and what are the Big Po...

This weeks guest is Michael Magriplis (Grips). Grips is the Head of Community Coaching at Rugby Australia During our chat we spoke about developing our people and games to improve player Rugby IQ. We also chatted about knowing your players before given them feedback and what language we use during training to held players get clarity. Grips also spoke about the changes that will be happening in Co...

This weeks guest is Nick Piva-Giblett. Nick was recently the defence coach at Warringah Rats and is also involved in NSW Waratahs Gen Blue program. We chatted about driving competition at training and indentifying different learning styles of your players. We also spoke about giving feedback and there no right way to coach but there is definately a wrong way.

This week's guest is Rhys Thompson. Rhys was the Head Coach at Hills Rugby Club in Division 2 of the Sydney Sub Districts Competition. During our chat we spoken about going straight from playing to coaching at the same club. How we should be focused on the process not the outcome and how little control we actually have on the players once they take the field. We also spoke about players wantin...

This week’s guest is Gavin Blackburn, Gavin is based in Scotland and has been a head coach at different rugby clubs for many years. During our chat Gavin spoke about condensing the 2nd training session of the week so that he can review the content that was covered during the first session to accommodate players that were unable to attend the first session. He spoke about falling out of the game fo...

This week’s guest is Mike Rogers Mike is currently the assistant coach at the recently crowned MLR champions the New England Free Jacks and the head coach of Manawatu Turbos in the NewZealand NPC competition, he is also the founder of Inside Running Academy in New Zealand. Mike also hosts the Coach Learning Series. Mike talks about learning from failure and allowing players to fail during training...

This weeks guest is Peter O’Donnell Peter is based in Dublin and is the founder of The Lineout Lab. He has coached all levels of rugby including schools, club rugby, Leinster Pathway, and Ireland Women’s. Peter competed his Masters in S and C and is currently studying to be a teacher. This was a great chat with Peter, and we chatted about keeping sessions enjoyable and his coach development. He gi...

This week’s guest is Gavin McLeod Originally from Scotland and now living in London for the past 2 years. He is currently the forwards coach of Hitchen Mens team; he is also coaching at Fernhill School as well as being involved in the Saracens DPP pathway for U15 and U16 players. He began coaching in 2003 while playing rugby in Canada. During our conversation we spoke about coaching fundamentals t...

This episode is with Max Dominy Max is involved with the Northampton Saints Academy During this chat we spoke about playing multiple sport as a young person, finding what is your superpower. How to use more advanced players with less skilful players. How to promote skills as a habit, coaching without coaching and encouraging good mistakes to help develop learning. We also spoke about high tempo tr...

This episode is with Kyle McLean. Kyle has recently been appointed to Head Coach of the Bay of Plenty Volcanix team for the upcoming Farah Palmer Cup. Kyle has coached all forms of the game at all levels of the game, he is also the founder of The Coaching Gig. A website dedicated to helping coaches with game based coaching Beside game based coaching we also chatted about alignments within a coachi...

This episode is with Tom Cooling. Tom has recently graduated from the University of South Wales and is the Head of Academy at Park House Rugby Club in the UK. During this sepisode we spoke about talking to every possible coach that you can and taking something away from the conversation. We also spoke about his questioning and the way he gives feedback to his players.

This weeks epsiode is with Kaila Colbin and Grant Keenan Kaila and Grant speak about the Crusaders Coach Leadership Program. The next CCLP program will commence 30 Jan 2023. If you or somebody you know thinks they can benefit from improving their Leadership I highly recommend this course. Follow the below link to registration page for the CCLP.

This week’s episode is with Grant Doorey. Grant has coached in the professional space for over 20 years which lead to him coaching at 4 World Cups. He is also a World Rugby Educator and a facilitator and coach mentor at IRAA the International Rugby Academy of Australia. During our chat we spoke about How do we measure success and being able to celebrate progress. Having a coaching team and being a...

This week is Part 2 of my chat with Justin Carroll During this episode we spoke about how he has introduced a Traffic Light System for his coaches. Focus on the outcomes and building relationships with players

This is part 1 of a 2-part series This week’s guest is Justin Carroll Justin is the current Director of Rugby at Valley Fort Rugby Club in Hong Kong. He is also a L4 and World Rugby Master Coach Educator. In his 26 years as a Secondary School Teacher Justin was the Director of Rugby or First XV coach at many schools and held the role of Manager Coach Education with Rugby Victoria. During this epis...

This week’s guest is Andy Plimer Andy is the host and creator of The Rugby Coach's Corner Podcast, which he started in 2015. He has recorded over 100 interviews with coaches such as Wayne Smith, Michael Cheika, Eddie Jones, Pierre Villepreux, and many more. He's currently working on creating an online coaching course titled EVOLVE Rugby, based on a lot of the key learnings acquired from hosting th...

Dan is the Colts 1 coach at Norths Rugby Club in Brisbane. He was previously the Director of Rugby at Brisbane State High. During our conversation we spoke about wearing different hats as a 1st XV coach and getting to know your players and reducing your risk. We spoke about having a feedback framework of what do we need to stop doing, what do we need to keep doing and what do we need to start doin...

This week’s guest is Rama Chand Rama is originally from Fiji and grow up in Auckland and has played rugby in many countries around the world. He transitioned into coaching while overseas. He moved to Australia where he work for Queensland RU for about 4 years and Rugby Australia for 3 years as a Coach Training and Education Advisor. He was recently the first XV Assistant Coach at State High in Bri...

This weeks guest is Paul Healy Paul has been an international coach for over 25 years but is now back in Australia and is the current Manager of Pathways and Education for the Northern Territory Rugby Union. During this episode we about his first pro coaching with Stade Francais and coaching Uruguay at the 2003 World Cup. We talked about making mistakes and what doesn't kill us as coaches makes us...

Todays guest is Andy Yep Andy grew up outside of Chicago playing multiple sports. In 2005 he began playing rugby in high school at the age of 17. When he moved up to the men's level, he began coaching high school rugby. In 2015 Andy became a world level 1 rugby coach. Andy has coached rugby in multiple states in the USA and at various age levels. He currently coaches the University of Southern Cal...

This week’s guest is Steve HALSEY. Steve is currently completely his Level 4 coaching accreditation Steve transitioned into coaching after injury stopped him playing, Steve went into age group rugby working in the Northampton Saints academy. He became involved with the Women's game in 2010 coaching the England U20's at various points across the 10 years. More recently Steve was involved with coach...

This week’s guest is Dan Cottrell. Dan is the editor of Rugby Coach Weekly. Dan is a practising RFU Level 3 coach and coach educator. He coaches with the Bristol Bears DPP programme, is the assistant coach with University of Bristol Women's team and is a coach mentor for Broad Plain RFC mini and juniors section. He was Head Coach of Swansea Schools U15 and has previously held coaching roles with t...

In this episode I chat with Murray Harley Murray is a retired professional loose head prop playing for the ACT Brumbies 1996-97, he is also a member of the C2K Rugby Academy Front Row Club coaching staff. He is a RugbyAU Level 2 accredited coach and has recently completed the World Rugby Coach Educator course. Only one of only five coaches trained and accredited to deliver RugbyAU’s pilot ‘Scrum P...