Rugby Coach Weekly

Send us Fan Mail Andy Stevens and David Sharkey join Jess Bunyard on Breaking The Pane to discuss themes and storytelling. With each person at a different stage exploring themes, the group travel through their own experiences offering a guide to anyone wishing to add theming to their coaching toolbox.   The trio also discusses whether there are any differences in storytelling within men's 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: Tamara Taylor, England rugby player (World Cup winner), RFU Coach Development Officer and player coach with Saracens and Emily Scott, Olympian, Commonwealth Games medallist, England rugby player and head coach at Thurrock RFC.  The team...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Stevens, in his first Glass Half Full podcast, looks at the challenges and opportunities around the women's game. His guests are Bryony Cleall, an England international, Duncan Johnson, leading the girls' section at Ellingham and Ringwood, and Mary Ann Collins, Kids First Mentor and still playing at Crowthorne Ladies. The conversation talked around: The historical c...

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 Coughlan, lecturer Cork Institute of Technology and Movement & Skill Acquisition Ireland co-founder, Rick Shuttleworth, coaching developer and skill adaptation specialist and Mark O'Sullivan, AIK Head of Youth Football (8-12...

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 Worcester Warrior coaches, Jo Yapp and Sian Moore. LJ's team Wasps had just beaten the Warriors, so there was a bit of fun to be had before they delved into these questions: How have you grown women's rugby across all your roles? What are you...

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: Paul Westgate, Nottingham Uni DoR and RFU Mentor, Giles Heagerty Assistant Head of Sport and Head of Rugby at Cheadle Hulme School and Ben Wills, Reading RFC Head Coach The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great conten...

Send us Fan Mail Dan Cottrell caught up with Jonny McMurtry of coachingthecoaches.net to talk about his current research.  Having been involved in high-performance age-grade rugby programs across Australia for nearly 10 years, he is currently completing research in conjunction with the University of Queensland and Rugby Australia, looking at age-grade player's engagement and understanding wha...

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: Richard Cheetham MBE, senior fellow at Winchester University and Derek O'Riordan, Coaching Partnership Manager at Sport Scotland The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitc...

Send us Fan Mail Si Nainby talks in-depth to Jamie Taylor PhD. Jamie 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. @jattaylor https://twitter.com/jat...

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: Dan Abrahams, Freelance Sport and Exercise Psychologist and Dr Abbe Brady, Sport and Exercise Psychologist and Head of Psychology and Pedagogic Science at St Mary's University The team dissect the book  The Long Win: The Search for...

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: Sam Jarman, professional Golf coach, Chris Campbell, Hinckley RFC Head Coach, Paul Archer, Newbury RFC Head Coach  The team dissect Jonny Wilkinson's performance on the Jake Humphrey High Performance Podcast. This week's conte...

Send us Fan Mail We are delighted to host the guys from Eighty Percent Mental to run their own version of the Haunted House, where coaches have to say how they will deal with tough situations. Here are the scenarios the group discussed: A 17-year-old is transitioning into the senior team but the senior team has a strong drinking culture. How do you advise the coaches and teams? A verbally abusive...

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 Kim Oliver. Kim is currently in her fourth season as head coach at Premiership team Bristol Women's team. She won 43 caps for England as a centre, worked as a community coach with Bath and spent two years in Gibraltar as a rugby development office...

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: Nick Jackson, Recreational Expanse Financier with England Rugby and Tom Bowen-Hall, DoR Mad Dog Sport.  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 ga...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 3, Dr Anna Stodter and Dr Ed Hall, give Jess Bunyard and listeners a tutorial in all things coach development and learning.  The group tackle: what effective reflection as a coach looks like,  diversity within coach education what the future holds for coach education.  Whether you want to discover what it takes to research coach education or how to make your coach learn...

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: 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 th...

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 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, balancin...

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: 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...

Send us Fan Mail Dan 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 D Mixing skills zones into game zones Apply the Laws o...

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: 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...

Send us Fan Mail Dan 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...

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: 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...

Send us Fan Mail "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 1 His background from playing rugby with Connacht & Ireland to S&...

Send us Fan Mail In 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...

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 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 Premiershi...