Here are five more things I learned over the course of my coaching career that just sort of occurred from trial and observation: 1. Ball in two hands. The first sport I played seriously, and it’s commonplace in that game for ball carriers to ‘tuck it away’ and just run. In rugby, there are people [...]
Posts Tagged ‘quickness’
Five Epiphanies, Part 2
Posted in Tactical, tagged attack, awareness, footwork, passing, positions, quickness, running, tactics, touch, use of space on 22/09/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Backline Coordination
Posted in General Posts, Tactical, tagged analysis, attack, awareness, communication, passing, positions, quickness, running, tactics, team building, touch, use of space on 06/02/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Despite our team running in five tries yesterday, I didn’t think our backline clicked as well or as often as I hoped it would. I put this down to first game after a long break, though I think it’s time I had them take another step in becoming better ‘thinking’ rugby players. Their alignment wasn’t [...]
Running Rugby
Posted in Tactical, tagged attack, awareness, communication, philosophy, quickness, running, tactics, touch, use of space on 04/02/2011 | Leave a Comment »
‘Running Rugby’ has become a bit of buzz phrase in recent years to describe a certain brand of rugby that supposedly only a few teams play. This reminds me of edu-babble or other jargon that really tries to make something old sound new and exciting. Surely rugby players weren’t jogging back in the old days! [...]
Getting the Most Out of… Quick Steppers
Posted in Technical, tagged awareness, defence, footwork, quickness, running, technique, use of space on 15/11/2010 | 1 Comment »
I just fielded an email from one of my players asking about my comments directed at the entire team with regard to choosing better support lines. She’s on the smaller side, but is extremely quick, and mentioned that she didn’t think she was very good at taking a determined angle of support. I realised that [...]
Silly or Brilliant?
Posted in Tactical, tagged awareness, passing, quickness on 04/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Without a doubt, South African Fourie du Preez is one of – if not the – premier scrum halves in the world game. He is the complete passing, running, defending, and kicking scrum half who marshalls his forwards about, running the show for the Bulls and steadying the Boks. In a losing cause against a [...]
What is a ‘swerve,’ you ask?
Posted in Technical, tagged footwork, quickness, running, use of space on 27/09/2009 | 1 Comment »
While coaching a women’s club team in the summer, I tried to incorporate as much footwork as possible. I feel basic techniques are often ignored as coaches try to implement complicated moves and systems (my beef with these in a later post), but without them they haven’t the ability to execute these designs. While everyone [...]
