Wandering Bear Podcast

This weeks guest is Warringah Rats Head Coach Michael Ruthven, we reflect on the 2022 Shute Shield Season, the importance of having mentors and being true to your values, learning from mistakes, how to stay true to your values and much much more.

Chris Delooze is the Head Coach of Manly Rugby Club in the Shute Shield Premier Grade Competition. During the pod we talked about theming, building people, learning from failure, being true to yourselfhow neither of us enjoyed the 2022 Shute Shield season, how we can learn from disappointment and much much more.

Zak Beer is the Head Coach of Northern Suburbs Rugby Club in the Shute Shield Premier Grade Competition. During the pod we talked about the rapidly improving standard of the Shute Shield, how neither of us enjoyed the 2022 Shute Shield season, how we can learn from disappointment and use it to our advantage, the importance of self care and much much more.

Zak was incredibly honest and open with his answers and gave some great insights into the ups and downs of coaching, why Norths have had so much recent success and what it takes to have sustainable long term success.

Toutai Kefu is the Head Coach of Tonga, and a Wallabies Legend (1999 World Cup Winner) who earned 60 caps playing at number eight during a golden era for Australian Rugby

Mick Byrne is the Head Coach of the Fijian Drua Super Rugby Team. As a skills coach Mick has worked with the Wallabies, All Blacks, Scotland and Leinster. As an athlete Mick played professional Australian rules Football for Melbourne, Hawthorn and Sydney.

Matt O'Connor is a former Wallaby and professional rugby union coach with a long track record of success at the highest levels. Matt has held head coaching roles at the Leicester Tigers (Winning the English Premiership in 2013), at Irish province Leinster (where he won the Pro12 in 2013–14) as well as the Queeensland Reds (co-head coach) in 2016.

This weeks guest on the Podcast is Simon Strachan. Simon is a co founder of Gain Line Analytics http://www.gainline.biz a company he formed with former Wallabies Prop Ben Darwin. Gain Line Analytics is an operations and management consultancy with a unique perspective on success in professional sport and business. Their work has shown that great teams are more than just the sum of their parts and that great teams are the product of linkages and connections within the organisation. Through their work they help sporting clubs, organisations and businesses build these linkages and connections with a view to sustainable. Gain Line places a strong focus on data analysis and quantitative research using the unique field of Cohesion Analytics. This podcast is a fascinating look at how some of the most successful teams in the world built these connections from the ground up.

This weeks guest is Mr Aaron Walsh. Aarons work includes developing leadership, culture and mental performance programs for teams in sport and business. He is currently working with the Chiefs in Super Rugby as well as consulting to Harlequins, Texas Rangers and Basketball New Zealand. His work also includes coaching multiple corporate leadership teams in creating and maintaining a high performance working environment. In addition Aaron Has worked in MLB, NRL and with with various national teams.

This weeks guest on the podcast is 2022 Sydney University Head Coach, Shute Shield Coach of the year, Shute Shield 2022 Premiership winner, former Melbourne Rebels Attack Coach & the current Head of Coaching for the international Rugby Academy Mr Sean Hedger.

This week on the podcast we sit down with one half of the joint Shute Shield Coaches of the year Scott “Bubba” Coleman. We talk about forming the Hunter Wildfires, building an identity and a culture from scratch, lessons learned and some of the main takeaways from the crazy 2022 Shute Shield Season.