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Liza "Bird" Burgess was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2018. With 93 caps for Wales and GB, she's also an experienced international and club coach. Now assisting Susie Appleby at Gloucester-Hartbury in the Tyrrells English Premiership, she shares her approach to coaching, what inspires her and how she's changed her delivery. These are exciting times for the women's game as more women take up the coaching reigns - it was great to catch with a good friend and a beacon for the game.

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Experienced DPP coach, coaching coordinator and grassroots coach, Ian Hollingworth chats about how he has learned to take more risks. He tells us how he is passionately curious about his coaching and how that has changed his approach. He explains his escape routes if the session is not going quite right, how to maintain the tempo in training plus empowering players and coaches.

Ian is a lead coach with Essex DPP Under 15s, Billericay RFC Club Coach Coordinator and a Kids First Mentor.

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Talking with experienced grassroots Chris Sweetapple, we look at a recent session he's run using a Rugby Coach Weekly activity. This episode is about "defence zone" which was the game activity as part of the practice plan, Standing in the tackle.

We also discuss, and not necessarily agree (!) on the following questions: "Who are we doing this for?" and "How do development and results coaches get along?"

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What changes when you do a Level 1 course. 
How has your "language" in coaching change. 
Top tips on using demonstrations in training
What gets players back - not making fun "silly"
What does engaging the players look like
When do you drill the players
How long before new players can play contact
At what age do players start to think "team"
How do parents react to equal playing time
How do you deal with poor answers to your coaching questions
What do you do if the session hasn't worked
How do you play wizard touch
How can a nervous coach open up to the coaching community
How do you make praise make a real difference

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Tim Ravenscroft, lead coach for his U12’s team in Bristol and also Sector Head Age Grade Rugby at Gloucestershire RFU discusses how coaching and fixtures are changing for the better at age group rugby.

Tim tells us about:

• Curry nights for coaches and light bulb moments
• Letting players play different sports – and hard choices
• Helping coaches find better ways to engage with their players
• New ideas for better fixtures for players
• The pressure for cups and success against the reasons to play in teams

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For more than a quarter of a century, international sports performance coach Wayne Goldsmith has influenced the coaching, thinking and teaching of some of the world’s leading athletes, coaches and teams.

His client list has included the Super Rugby Teams the ACT Brumbies, Western Force and Queensland Reds, the Wallabies / Rugby Australia, the NZRU / New Zealand Rugby Union High Performance Unit, NRL teams the Sydney Roosters, Wests Tigers and Gold Coast Titans, AFL teams the North Melbourne Kangaroos and Brisbane Lions and Tennis Australia / Australian Open Grand Slam Tournament.

Wayne has also worked with numerous Olympic teams including the Australian Swimming, Triathlon and Diving teams. He was a keynote speaker at the 2018 IRB World In Union Conference in NZ and is a current member of the National Rugby League’s Coach Development Advisory team.

In this podcast we discuss:

• How to observe a team more effectively
• What interventions work with the most difficult players
• What a great player does more than just a talented player
• Why we want “pigs” not “chickens”
• What coaches need to change about themselves
• Why values need to be more than just posters on the wall

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I was delighted to catch up with Ed Robinson, attack coach with the Jersey Reds. His team had just served up a fantastic try in the English second tier competition, which went onto win Skys Sports 2018 try of the year.

I spoke to him to find out some of the background behind the try. And I found myself immersed in a great journey and really challenged to rethink some of my own thoughts.

In this insightful podcast find out:

• Why big life decisions don’t need to be risks
• How players can make 500-1000 touches on the ball every day
• Challenging the players so they become rugby players making rugby decisions
• The surprising background to the 2018 Sky Sports try of the year
• What training might look like to create tries from your own line
• How to analyse in-game without the need for video
• Planning for dreams
• What makes better players even better player
• Why I might need to rethink my views on age and coaching the basics

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Dan welcomes IRFU head of coaching and coach development Colin Moran to the podcast to discuss how best to keep players in love with the game.

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Simon Nainby, an experienced S&C coach, coaching consultant and rugby coach, talks about how to give autonomy to your players, the power of stories, what is meant by action bias and why taking a netball team changed his approach to coaching 

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To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly

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