Rugby Coach Weekly

Send us Fan Mail For this episode I’m joined by two coaches I hold in high regard for the information they share and the positive outlook they portray as coaches. Adam Gillings is U12’s Coach at Bracknell RFC, Kids First Mentor but primarily, dad to his two kids. Rhys Davies is now a Coach Developer with the RFU after stints at London Irish and the Honourable Artillery Company. The conversation re...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Charlie Hayter, Great Britain Rugby 7s Men's and Women's team leader and assistant coach, Craig Morris, Great Britain Canoe slalom coach and Ian Johns, British Judo Head Para-Olympic Coach. This week is an Olympic and Para-Oly...

Send us Fan Mail Alan Dymock is Features Editor of Rugby World Magazine. He specialises in long-reads and detailed studies, as well as stories of far-flung events and quirky characters. In this Deep Dive, we discuss Alan's features on pain killer and performance-enhancing drug use in rugby. Alan's playing background & how he transitioned to journalism Why Alan decided to investigate...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Jamie Cudmore, Rugby Canada Development Academy Head Coach and Senior Men's Forwards Coach, Scott Manning, Castaway Wanderers Head Coach and Canada U18 Assistant Coach and Sean White, James Bay Athletic Association Head Coach, Cana...

Send us Fan Mail Dan chats to Lisa Lane Brown about how we can practically improve mental toughness with our athletes and players. Drawing on her experience, first as a world-class ice hockey player and then as a mental skills coaches, she gives us recognisable steps for flipping the switch from nerves into confidence. She explains her three Cs, why her mother inspired her to shoot more, why do yo...

Send us Fan Mail Bird and LJ welcome to the podcast Carol Isherwood, OBE. Carol was a founder member of the women's RFU, captain Great Britain and England international teams in their games. She was the first woman to achieve a L3 coaching award in England and was performance director of women's rugby in England too. As well as being awarded an OBE for services to women's rugby, she...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Andrew Wilesmith, Chair of Rugby Development with England Schools RFU, John Fletcher, Magic Academy founder, coach and mentor and Russell Earnshaw, Magic Academy founder, coach and mentor.  The team discuss the upcoming England Rugby Sc...

Send us Fan Mail The remarkable and untold story of the 2014 Rugby World Cup winning England side from the view of their coaches, Gary Street and Graham Smith. In this episode, winning a World Cup twice, watching the same game every week, abandoning a bus on a traffic island, ‘Paul McGinley didn’t coach them did he?’, Alex Payne, Johnny Hammond, Nick Heath’s 'Never Forget' and ‘It wasn’t...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Cath Bishop, Olympic rower, silver medallist, author of The Long Win, Rachel Hooper learning, education and development manager for British Rowing, former coaching education advisor for UK Coaching and Katelynn Slade, PhD student at Lou...

Send us Fan Mail The remarkable and untold story of the 2014 Rugby World Cup winning England side from the view of their coaches, Gary Street and Graham Smith.  In this episode, approaches to the selection of Captain, why its not a sacrifice to play for your country, ‘you’re not fit to wear the shirt’, guns, bullets and the team begin their journey at the 2014 Rugby World Cup in France. Gary and G...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Greg Mannion, Leicester Tigers Junior Academy Manager, Ben Lazenby, Former Leeds Carneige Academy Manager and Tony Fretwell, Womens Super League FA Head of Academies.   The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great conten...

Send us Fan Mail The remarkable and untold story of the 2014 Rugby World Cup winning England side from the view of their coaches, Gary Street and Graham Smith. In this episode, recovering from a World Cup final loss, the power of a Post It note, ‘Toughen Up Tuesdays’, random Tornado's and how a 'wet Wednesday in Waikato’ in 2013 was so significant. Gary and Graham speak to Eamonn Hogan a...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Jack Moran, Norwich School Head of Rugby, Leicester Tigers Pathway Coach, Mark Grigg, Assistant Director of Sport and Head of Rugby at St Joseph’s College, Ipswich and Andy Skeehan, Director of Rugby at St Michael’s College, Dublin, and...

Send us Fan Mail The remarkable and untold story of the 2014 Rugby World Cup winning England side from the view of their coaches, Gary Street and Graham Smith. In this episode, early forays into the women's game, creating monsters, hotels 'down the road’, how one tackle in 2006 changed the face of English women’s rugby and the how pain of the 2010 World Cup Final loss drove them both tow...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Ian Davies, Director of Rugby Christs Hospital School, former Director of Rugby at Cornish Pirates, Neil Harris, Director of Rugby at St George's School, Harpenden and USA Eagles assistant coach and Paul Turner, Head Coach at Ampth...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Ed Hall, researcher and lecturer at Northumbria University, Ryan Thomas, lecturer at Plymouth Marjon University and Adam Nichol, teaching fellow at Durham University, coach with Northumberland Cricket board and Coach develop with the EC...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Women's Rugby Coaching podcast, Jess Bunyard is joined by Vicky Alexander.  Vicky has a number of rugby roles including Petersfield RFC Senior Men’s Coach and Cobham Girl’s Rugby Lead.  The episode discusses Vicky's coaching work at Cobham including recognising and supporting female players with their mental health.  As well as detailing her own ex...

Send us Fan Mail Dan catches up with one of the leading lights of ecological dynamics, Rob Gray. Rob is professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. In the coaching world, he is better known for the Perception and Action podcast. I ask Rob to give us a basic guide to what is meant by ecological dynamics and perception-action coupling in a sporting context. It includes an out...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests discuss the current state of the game in this Roundup Rodeo 'Special'  This week's guests: Alan Zondagh, former director of rugby Bulls Rugby Franchise (South Africa),  director of rugby Saracens, head coach London Scottish, head coach Western Province, head coach and director of coaching at Eastern Province and director of coaching W...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 3 features Mark and Rob Shotton, two of the founder members of LooseHeadz, the rugby apparel brand supporting mental health through a group of high profile ambassadors and a grassroots academy. We are joined by Elliott Blackmore, a social, emotional & mental health specialist teacher and highly experienced rugby coach, including coaching in the Saracens Developing Play...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Rosie Collins, sport and exercise psychology consultant with GreyMatters, senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, Serena MacLeod, sport and exercise psychology consultant with Leyton Orient WFC and Oxford University through Optimi...

Send us Fan Mail Bird and LJ welcome Vicky Macqueen. Vicky, who received a British Empire Medal for services to sport, was an England international with 34 caps, plus also representing England at 7s. She has coach men's rugby with Hinkley, was director of women's rugby at Loughborough University, as well as coaching at Lichfield Women. In 2015 she founded didi Rugby UK and now has franch...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Emma Taylor, head coach Stamford women and girls, American Football coach and trainee energy psychologist, Matt Coldrey, programme manager of the sports coaching degree at Hartpury College and Emma Humes, primary PE teacher, netball and...

Send us Fan Mail Si Nainby deep dives with Pete Arnott. Pete is a golf coach with a research interest in skill acquisition. In this episode we discuss: What is skill and what does it mean to be skilful? Why did coaching become so de-contextualised? Simplification not Decomposition - why we should build skills by simplifying tasks rather than breaking down techniques. The issues around de-contextua...

Send us Fan Mail Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.  This week's guests: Laurie MacDonald, Coach Developer for Sport Scotland and Coaching Discourse Podcast Co-host, Chloe Brown, Head of Girls Talent Pathway Northamptonshire FA, Peterborough United Ladies Assistant Manager and FA Tutor and Ellie Gennings, Le...