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Peter Russell is very experienced coach, having worked with premier teams across the rugby globe. He was head coach of Hawkes Bay, assistant coach with the Highlanders Super Rugby team, head coach at the Newcastle Falcons and the NEC Green Rockets in Japan. He is now head coach at the Manawatu Mitre 10 Cup team. 

In the pod, he was keen to chat about the game plan concept, trends and the exposure of defence systems. 

In this detailed podcast, here are some of the many areas we covered:

• What is meant by an attacking part of a game plan
• What are the key elements to this game plan
• How does an attack breakdown the modern, aggressive defensive systems
• Why "shape" comes second
• How does "shape" work, for example, with a 1,3,3,1 system
• What happens in training to enable the game plan to work
• What's the role of kicking in a game plan
• Why we need to think about the width of passes from the base of a ruck
• What the All Blacks disastrously forgot against the Lions in 2017

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