This weeks guest is Cole Mooney.

Cole is curently coaching at Pakaranga Rugby Club in New Zealand.

During our chat we spoke about creating haits during training and increasing your players capacity and conscienceness.

Cole also spoke about to create relationships with players and finding a common ground.

We also chatted about as a coach you need to be able to be uncomfortable and vunerable with those around us

This weeks guest is Cam Treloar.

Cam is the current coach at West Harbour in the Shute Shield.

He also coached at Warringah as an Assistant Coach for a few years

2023 was his firstyear as a Head Coach and he reflected a lot and his first year.

He spoke about changing clubs to enhance his coaching career and transitioning from player to coach shortly after he finished playing.

He spoke about how he uses player led feedback during his session .

This weeks guest is Sean Hedger (Hedge).

Hedge is the Director of Rugby at IRAA.

He coached Sydney Uni to a victory in the Shute Shield in 2022 and was also named joint Shute Shield coach of the year the same year.

He has also coached extensively in Japan as well as Bond Uni and the Melbourne Rebels.

During our chat we spoke about Flexibility of thought during your coaching and what are the Big Pocks for you and your team.

Also how to create leadership within your team and how to drive peer to peer coaching .

He also spoke about learning from other coaches as well as coaches in other sports.

This weeks guest is Michael Magriplis (Grips). Grips is the Head of Community Coaching at Rugby Australia During our chat we spoke about developing our people and games to improve player Rugby IQ. We also chatted about knowing your players before given them feedback and what language we use during training to held players get clarity. Grips also spoke about the changes that will be happening in Coach Development in Australia over the next few years

This weeks guest is Nick Piva-Giblett. Nick was recently the defence coach at Warringah Rats and is also involved in NSW Waratahs Gen Blue program. We chatted about driving competition at training and indentifying different learning styles of your players. We also spoke about giving feedback and there no right way to coach but there is definately a wrong way.

This week's guest is Rhys Thompson.

Rhys was the Head Coach at Hills Rugby Club in Division 2 of the Sydney Sub Districts Competition.

During our chat we spoken about going straight from playing to coaching at the same club.

How we should be focused on the process not the outcome and how little control we actually have on the players once they take the field.

We also spoke about players wanting to compete, whoch helps with thier learning.

There is a small glitch in the recording as the internet dropped out due to a storm in the area on the night of recording.

This week’s guest is Gavin Blackburn, Gavin is based in Scotland and has been a head coach at different rugby clubs for many years.

During our chat Gavin spoke about condensing the 2nd training session of the week so that he can review the content that was covered during the first session to accommodate players that were unable to attend the first session.

He spoke about falling out of the game for a period of time, due to outside influences.

We chatted about using games at training to help player learning.

He spoke about being honest with players around feedback and that the player may not like the feedback but it needs to be honest.

He also briefly discussed the new below sternum Tackle Law that is being introduced and how he had to re-coach tackle tech to his players.

This week’s guest is Mike Rogers Mike is currently the assistant coach at the recently crowned MLR champions the New England Free Jacks and the head coach of Manawatu Turbos in the NewZealand NPC competition, he is also the founder of Inside Running Academy in New Zealand. Mike also hosts the Coach Learning Series. Mike talks about learning from failure and allowing players to fail during training to improve. We spoke about being involved in the drills during training so that you can provide immediate feedback where necessary. We talked about how to have those difficult conversations with players and how to give different types of feedback. He gave some tips around coaching defence and helping your players read the pictures they see in defence. We also had a chat about whether we are getting the best benefit out of our pregame warmup.   Mike can be contacted at rugbyacademy.global https://www.facebook.com/InsideRunningAcademy/ https://www.instagram.com/ir_academy/ mike@insiderunning.com

This weeks guest is Peter O’Donnell Peter is based in Dublin and is the founder of The Lineout Lab. He has coached all levels of rugby including schools, club rugby, Leinster Pathway, and Ireland Women’s. Peter competed his Masters in S and C and is currently studying to be a teacher. This was a great chat with Peter, and we chatted about keeping sessions enjoyable and his coach development. He gives us a run down on the Lineout Lab as well as sharing some tips for coaches that are coaching the Lineout throw.   TheLineout Lab on Facebook https://www.thelineoutlab.com/ peter@thelineoutlab.com

This week’s guest is Gavin McLeod

Originally from Scotland and now living in London for the past 2 years.

He is currently the forwards coach of Hitchen Mens team; he is also coaching at Fernhill School as well as being involved in the Saracens DPP pathway for U15 and U16 players.

He began coaching in 2003 while playing rugby in Canada.

During our conversation we spoke about coaching fundamentals to kids, how we should be always learning as growing as coaches, to help our players grow and learn. How to change the coaching conditions to keep training fresh and exciting.

We spoke about his 3 Error rule when looking at giving feedback to player.

This episode is with Max Dominy

Max is involved with the Northampton Saints Academy

During this chat we spoke about playing multiple sport as a young person, finding what is your superpower. How to use more advanced players with less skilful players. How to promote skills as a habit, coaching without coaching and encouraging good mistakes to help develop learning.

We also spoke about high tempo training sessions and understanding why a team is successful.

This episode is with Kyle McLean.

Kyle has recently been appointed to Head Coach of the Bay of Plenty Volcanix team for the upcoming Farah Palmer Cup.

Kyle has coached all forms of the game at all levels of the game, he is also the founder of The Coaching Gig. A website dedicated to helping coaches with game based coaching

Beside game based coaching we also chatted about alignments within a coaching crew, understanding a players motive to play, peer coaching and lots more.

Kyle can be contacted on LinkedIn as well as at www.coachinggig.com

This episode is with Tom Cooling. Tom has recently graduated from the University of South Wales and is the Head of Academy at Park House Rugby Club in the UK. During this sepisode we spoke about talking to every possible coach that you can and taking something away from the conversation. We also spoke about his questioning and the way he gives feedback to his players.

This weeks epsiode is with Kaila Colbin and Grant Keenan Kaila and Grant speak about the Crusaders Coach Leadership Program. The next CCLP program will commence 30 Jan 2023. If you or somebody you know thinks they can benefit from improving their Leadership I highly recommend this course. Follow the below link to registration page for the CCLP.

This week’s episode is with Grant Doorey.

Grant has coached in the professional space for over 20 years which lead to him coaching at 4 World Cups.

He is also a World Rugby Educator and a facilitator and coach mentor at IRAA the International Rugby Academy of Australia.

During our chat we spoke about How do we measure success and being able to celebrate progress.

Having a coaching team and being able to use multiple coaches during a session and as coaches we are the providers of clarity.

Having training sessions that allow your players to problem solve on the run which will build both confidence and resilience in your team.

This week is Part 2 of my chat with Justin Carroll

During this episode we spoke about how he has introduced a Traffic Light System for his coaches.

Focus on the outcomes and building relationships with players

This is part 1 of a 2-part series

This week’s guest is Justin Carroll

Justin is the current Director of Rugby at Valley Fort Rugby Club in Hong Kong.

He is also a L4 and World Rugby Master Coach Educator.

In his 26 years as a Secondary School Teacher Justin was the Director of Rugby or First XV coach at many schools and held the role of Manager Coach Education with Rugby Victoria.

During this episode we spoke about the difficulties of a rugby landscape in a non-rugby country.

Having skill sets transition from age group to age group

Breaking bad Habits and setting up players and coaches with good technics.

This week’s guest is Andy Plimer Andy is the host and creator of The Rugby Coach's Corner Podcast, which he started in 2015. He has recorded over 100 interviews with coaches such as Wayne Smith, Michael Cheika, Eddie Jones, Pierre Villepreux, and many more. He's currently working on creating an online coaching course titled EVOLVE Rugby, based on a lot of the key learnings acquired from hosting the podcast. Originating from Australia but based in Canada, Andy has been coaching for over 15 years across a wide variety of levels, ranging from minis to high school, university, regional age grade rep, senior men's club and rep, and national u17. His current roles include coach development and assistant coach at the Montreal Irish RFC, assistant coach at the Toronto Arrows Regional Academy, and coaching his kids in u12, u10, and u6. The Rugby Coaches Corner was the first ever Podcast I listened to, so I was really excited to chat with Andy. During the chat we spoke about turning the mirror inwards after a defeat Connections with your team Coaching the game within the game We spoke about Building team culture and peer to peer review

Dan is the Colts 1 coach at Norths Rugby Club in Brisbane. He was previously the Director of Rugby at Brisbane State High. During our conversation we spoke about wearing different hats as a 1st XV coach and getting to know your players and reducing your risk. We spoke about having a feedback framework of what do we need to stop doing, what do we need to keep doing and what do we need to start doing. How training through games and having chaos and messy training is good and letting players sort things out for themselves.

This week’s guest is Rama Chand Rama is originally from Fiji and grow up in Auckland and has played rugby in many countries around the world. He transitioned into coaching while overseas. He moved to Australia where he work for Queensland RU for about 4 years and Rugby Australia for 3 years as a Coach Training and Education Advisor. He was recently the first XV Assistant Coach at State High in Brisbane. Since recording this Rama has been appointed the Director of Development at Georgian Rugby. During our chat we spoke about picking players on belief that they will achieve, developing core skills in players while knowing the game your players are playing. We discussed allowing players to make errors during training as that is part of learning and decision making. We also spoke about learning the softer skills of coaching and giving feedback and using it as a tool for progression.