Rugby Coach Weekly

Send us Fan Mail Women's Rugby Coaching magazine editor, Jess Bunyard, goes to the very top of the English game to chat with Simon Middleton and Amy Turner.  Simon has been the Head Coach of England Women since 2015, winning 2 Six Nations titles and taking the team to the 2017 World Cup final.  Amy is Performance Pathway Officer for England Rugby and is currently undertaking a coaching intern...

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: Elliott Newell, Sports Psychologist with the English Institute of Sport, Hugh Gilmore, Sports Psychologist with British Weightlifting and British Athletics, co-host of the Eighty Percent Mental Podcast and Dr Pete Olusoga, senior lectur...

Send us Fan Mail Bird and LJ welcome Kate Burke, Lead Pathway Analyst with England Rugby. Kate has an MSc in Sports Analysis. After working in Wales with academy teams, she moved to the RFU in 2008, working with U18s and covering the men's teams. She then joined Bath for two years as head of analysis, before returning to the RFU to oversee analysis provision across the pathway, women's,...

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: Barry Maddocks, assistant coach with the Dragons in the Pro 14, AB Zondagh, assistant coach with Toulouse in the French Top 14, Warren Abrahams, head coach with the WRU for Wales Women. The team pick out the key takeaways from each piec...

Send us Fan Mail Dan speaks to Jess Bunyard, the editor of the world's first Women's Rugby Coaching magazine. Jess tells us why it's the right time to launch, what's different about it, and why it's all about growing the women's rugby community. She talks about the features of this issue, including dealing with menstrual cycle for players, growing a new club time and...

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: Danny Newcombe, Oxford Brookes senior lecturer in Sport, Coaching and PE, Coach Educator and Wales Men's Hockey national team head coach. Michael Ashford, Coventry University lecturer in Sport Coaching and Coach Educator. Luke Tayl...

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: Kev Mannion, head of academy performance at Gloucester Rugby and Rich Middleton. academy S&C coach at Exeter Chiefs. 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...

Send us Fan Mail Dan Cottrell chats with Nick Hart.  Nick is head of Courthouse Junior School in Berkshire, a CPD provider and an educational writer on his blog Thisismyclassroom. He has a sports science degree and played semi-pro soccer as a goalkeeper. Our main discussion is around scaffolding in coaching. It is probably something most of us do in some format but we might not always know why it...

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: Ross Ensor, Lecturer at Worcester University, UEFA B Football coach for Wolves FC and Tim Jones, PhD Researcher at Stirling University, Technical Director of Syngenta Juvs FC and host of The Developer Tribe Podcast. The team pick out th...

Send us Fan Mail Si Nainby deep dives with Sam Portland. Sam is a strength and conditioning coach and performance consultant who has worked for Wasps and Ealing Trailfinders. He's consulted with Kenya 7's and many individual pro-players from NFL to bobsleigh. Here's what they covered: Sam's background and why he is so passionate about speed development Why rugby coaches should...

Send us Fan Mail Dan talks to Abingdon School's director of rugby Matt Gold. We discuss his own experiences of speaking to a stellar cast of coaches in his own lockdown podcast series, Goldy's Rugby Podcast. We reflect on the lessons he learned from speaking to coaches like Ben Ryan and Sir Gordon Tietjens, especially on resilience and dealing with pressure. We then explore how he develo...

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: Tom Hartley, Senior Coach Developer at UK Coaching, Doug MacDonald, Coach Developer and Mentor for Scottish Canoe and Andrew Bradshaw, Senior Coach Developer at UK Coaching.  The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great...

Send us Fan Mail Bird and LJ welcome Katie Sadleir, general manager Women's Rugby with World Rugby since 2016 and was recognised as one of the top 10 rugby influencers (Rugby World Magazine 2020). Here are the questions they asked Katie: What has been your driving force to keep working at a strategic level?  What does a typical day look like in your role as World Rugby’s General Manager?  Wha...

Send us Fan Mail Jamie Taylor PhD is the former head of Academy at Leicester Tigers and now working with Grey Matters as a Senior Coach Developer and the English Institute of Sport as the coaching and curriculum lead. He is a coach, coach developer and researcher in coaching science with a particular focus on talent development. In this podcast, we follow up with Jamie to take an even deeper dive...

Send us Fan Mail Dan talks to Barry Frost of Pass Analysis about how you can get more all the analysis that might be available for your team. This is a very practical insight into getting more from the data, at all levels. Here are some of the main topics we touched on: What is analysis How analysis creates new thoughts How do we make analysis easy to use for coaches to make sense of it What is th...

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: Dave Collins, Director of GreyMatters Performance Ltd and Professor at Edinburgh University, Jamie Taylor, senior coach developer with GreyMatters Performance Ltd and coach with Loughborough University and Andrew Cruickshank, sport and...

Send us Fan Mail Liza Bird Burgess and LJ Adams catch up with former England international flanker Maggie Alphonsi MBE. Maggie, who is now a regular TV pundit and writes in The Daily Telegraph, was one of the world's best players, with 74 caps for England and 28 tries. She helped England win a World Cup and seven consecutive Six Nations crowns. In the pod, Bird and LJ ask Maggie (who Bird use...

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: Sandro Fiorino, Rugby Canada Women's head coach and 7s academy head coach, Jack Hanratty, Rugby Canada academy coach and Canada Women U20s head coach and Graeme Moffat, Director of Rugby for Rugby Alberta and Wolf Pack The team pic...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Stevens sits down to chat with Richard Cheetham and James Clark about coaching, coach development and skills of being a coach. The main topics were: A picture of ideal coach development. How transferable coaching skills can be, and does a coach need an in-depth knowledge of their sport. The importance of reflection and who to include in the process. Key reading and resource r...

Send us Fan Mail Dan Cottrell invites Dave Sharkey, Ged Hall and Edd Conway to say how they would use Doug Lemov's latest book, The Coach's Guide to Teaching in their own environments. Bestselling author and teaching guru Doug has drawn on his vast practical classroom experience to see he can help coaches produce better players. The panel discusses their main takeaways from the book in 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: Rich Hudson, Managing Director Buckinghamshire Cricket and ECB level 4 coach and Ian McClurg, UEFA A football coach.  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 le...

Send us Fan Mail Si Nainby talks in depth to William Wayland. William is a certified strength and conditioning coach and owner of Powering Through Performance Gym in Chelmsford, Essex  http://www.powering-through.com/ .  He works with a wide variety of sports and athletes including rugby, motorsports and the PGA European Tour. His background is in applied sports science. In this episode we discuss...

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: Tristan Mayglothling, professional rowing coach and PhD student at the University of Essex, Peter Prickett, football coach and author and Ian Johns, Paralympic head coach for GB Judo.  The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece...

Send us Fan Mail Liza “Bird” Burgess and LJ Lewis discuss a round of questions about the practicalities of the game. In this episode, they are with Sophie Bennett, the Bath team manager. Sophie, having played and coached rugby herself,  she was the WRU National Programme Co-ordinator. This role included team management of Wales U16s boys, Wales Women (XVs and 7s) and Cardiff Blues age groups. 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: Pat Metcalf-Jones, Oxford University co-head coach, Oxford Brooke's women's head coach and Oxford Harlequins women head coach, Clarissa Murphy, RFU Coach Developer and Sheffield Ladies RUFC head coach, Benedicte Williams, head...