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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 officer.

In the podcast, they covered the following topics:

• What have been your biggest lesson you have learnt, transitioning from player to coach?
• How would you introduce your defence philosophy/structure to your players? As the season progresses how would you measure the success of your philosophy/structure?
• How would you build confidence in a player around tackle/collision skills?
• What ideas do you have on structuring your training session, to ensure you cover your attack and defence philosophies? E.g. how you use your coaching team, defence/attack is coached at the same time, games/drills/skill isolation.
• What does a successful defence look like?

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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 game.

This week's content:

• Creativity: A short and cheerful guide – John Cleese
• The LooseHead Podcast – Bernard Jackman

WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

• The Coaching Discourse - Leadership and Culture – with Derek O'Riordan, Laurie MacDonald and Dr Anna Stodter
• The Winning Mentality – Steve Black
• Eighty Percent Mental – What is psychology anyway? - Dr Pete Olusoga & Hugh Gilmore talk to Dr Jonathan Fader

COMING UP

• Stripped Back Sport - Kirsty Gallagher and Maro Itoje
• The Barcelona Way - Damien Hughes 

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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 learning better for you, this is the pod for you.

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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 the game.

This week's content:

• Winners Take Control – Robin Van Persie
• Champion Minded – Vicky Williamson
• Praise and Affirmation. A deep dive - Professor Stephen Rolnick
• The High Performance Podcast with Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes - Jonny Wilkinson

WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

• Feel Better, Live More – The secret to making new habits stick - BJ Fogg 
• Brain Booster – Karl Morris 
• The Knowledge Project - Learning How to Learn – Barbara Oakley
• The Eddie Jones Coaching Podcast – Joe Roff
• The Coaching Discourse - Leadership and Culture – with Guy Richardson, Elliott Newell and Dr Simon Phelan
• The Sports Psych Show – Helping Players Improve Game Understanding – with Amy Price  
• The Swan Cast – Rugby Gives you Confidence – Jimmy Lowes

COMING UP

The Coaching Discourse - Two Beer Minimum Review of Episode 1 – with Derek O'Riordan, Dr Anna Stodter, Laurie MacDonald, Chris Stott and some bloke called Phil Llewellyn (shameless plus, apologies)

If you haven't done so already please assist Dr Anna Stodter with part of her academic research:

Research Survey - Analysing the professional development activities of Sports Coaches' during the COVID-19 pandemic – Dr Anna Stodter and Dr Simon Phelan

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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, balancing that with working as a primary school teacher.

• Having played and coached representative sport in netball, touch rugby and rugby union, what benefits has this experience across a range of sports provided you with when coaching rugby? 
• How important is it for coaches to keep updated with developments in other sports?
• Drills v games: the best balance when coaching.
• Playbooks: what are the pros and cons.
• How do you manage motivation when working with players?

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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 piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.

This week's content:

• Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Learning Journeys Podcast – Lesley McKenna
• The Magic Academy – Rob Townsend

WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

• The Empty Brain – Robert Epstein
•  The High Performance Podcast – Ben Ainslie
•  UK Coaching, Understanding Your Emotions – Joe Montemurro
• Adventure Thinking Live – Paul Pritchard 
•  The Magic Academy - Eilidh Gibson
• A Move Towards Reconceptualising Direct Instruction In Sports Coaching – Ed Cope and Chris Cushion
• Eddie Jones Coaching Podcast – Justin Langer 

COMING UP

• The Coaching Discourse – Episode 1 – Derek O'Riordan, Anna Stodter and Lauire MacDonald

Please assist Anna with part of her academic research:

Research Survey - Analysing the professional development activities of Sports Coaches' during the COVID-19 pandemic – Dr Anna Stodter and Dr Simon Phelan

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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 of the game in training
• Refereeing in training and in games
• Is it ever too early to introduce a game plan into training
• Swearing: what is permissible as a coach.

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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 and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.

This week's content:

• How We Think – John Dewey
• Against The Rules – The Coach in Your Head
• Freakonomics – Think Like A Winner

WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

• The Sports Psych Show, Dan Abrahams  – How to Build A Winning Team with Dr Matt Slater 
• The Loose Head – Let's Talk Coaching – Episodes with Pat Lam, Noel McNamara, Andy Friend and Andrew Browne
• Eighty Percent Mental – Is there such a thing as a winning mindset? With Dave Collins

COMING UP

• Desire2Learn Fusion Conference – Taking place 3 times a month throughout October, November and December
• The Dot by Peter Reynolds

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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 Junior Chair at Scunthorpe RFC in North Lincolnshire.

Here are the main areas we discussed:

• How do you retain coaches and attract coaches to the youngest age groups?
• How do you support the coaches' development?
• What are the challenges with training nights and Sunday training under the current Covid-19 regulations?
• With reduced subs and bar takings, what's got to give in the budget?
• Where do you go for support now that the RFU has reduced its workforce?
• What's changed for the better because of lockdown?
• What must we not forget when we return to training?
• What are you looking forward to when things are back and up running?

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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 of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.

This week's content:

• The Oval World. A Global History of Rugby by Tony Collins
• Shackleton’s Way by Morrell & Capparell 
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

• Rugby Reloaded Tony Collins
• The High Performance Podcast with Baroness Michelle Mone  Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind podcast review by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Sports Performance Show – Dan Abrahams talks with Stuart Wilkinson
• England Rugby The Eddie Jones Podcast – Eddie and Conor O'Shea talks with Joe Schmidt
• The Innovation Show – Tactics for Disruptive Thinking – Jeremy Gutsche
• The Sports Coaching Podcast – Sam Holmshaw talks with Marianne Davies
• The Sports Coaching Podcast - Sam Holmshaw talks with Damien McGrath

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