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Substition Plan
How Coaches Allocate Playing Time? Decision time!
Team roles
Create that all important skillmix!
Tight Head Prop
The tight head prop is the anchor in the scrum
About tackling
The rugby tackle, what to organise?
How to develop Open Play?
We need to think on how to teach vision and heads-up rugby.
Gameplan in a Mindmap
How to build and develop your Team Attack? Why not use mindmapping?
Game management
Coach on the sideline, but how to intervene?
Learn from the Black Ferns
“Be the most professional amateurs!”
Rugby and concussion
One of the most serious but least appreciated injury in rugby is the concussion
Rugby – Hockey – SAQ
Hockey girls and a rugbycoach: interesting mix!
Functional Roles in Open Play
In Open Play the functional roles of the rugby players are more situational rather then based on the position on set-pieces. What is required from the players depends on the situation. This is where a rugby team with players with both a good collective awareness of space and opportunities and a high general skill level…
Planning it all
After you have set your goals and thought over where you are now with the team and players, you can start to plan your season. Piecing the puzzle together is fun to do, involve as many people as possible in this. You need to think about how much time you have with the team. Will all sessions…
What is Long Term Athlete Development?
Canadians researched the work effort needed to become an olympic medal winner or world champion
Motivation & rugby
What motivates players? Why are people playing rugby? Always a good questions to ask, you will be amazed by the answers. If you want to get the most out of your players then you have to make sure that you can give them what they want out of the game. This is where this gets…
Speed, Agility & Quickness
Rugby games are won on Speed. Everybody admires the players who can side step and swerve through a defensive line. Even more important nowadays with the tight defensive patterns is this ability to escape a tackle by changing direction at the last minute. Or what about these 50/50 situations where reaction determines who gets the…
Goalsetting
You have to decide what you expect of your season, your team and the individual players. There is so much to learn, but how much time do you have? You have to make decisions, prioritise. Luckily, lots of coaches and unions have invested a lot of time in this already, you can simply start of…
Decision making in rugby
Rugby guru Pierre Villepreux has developed a method to develop Open Play.
Martin Rugby Coach
Looking for inspiration? This website will help you!
Questions to Ask
Before you can start you need to know were you are now.