The Out-Half’s 10 Commandments.

1. Believe in yourself. Confidence is a major factor in any 10’s game. If you don’t have real faith in your own ability to control the game, your team won’t either.
2. Know your players. Who is fast? Who is weak? Who needs encouragement? Who needs a rocket from time-to-time? Be prepared to lead.
3. Stay positive. [...]

Setting the feet of your pillars.

We have all become familiar with defensive systems at the breakdown in Rugby Union over recent years. As a rule of most systems, two players guard either side of the ruck as ‘pillars’, their job is to watch the breakdown and defend tight at the fringes against a pick and go or a break by [...]

Creating space off phase play.

This is so simple. Wide pass to 10, wide pass to 12, 12 turns holds his ground, pops to the wrap-around supporting player 7, 10 has followed his pass around too, takes off 7. Attacking team now has numbers out wide created by the wrap-arounds, support players hit their lines hard, [...]

Coaching Accountability

Players should never be left in a position where they do not know why they are not in team. Coaches have to be 100% accountable for their decisions. Without this accountability, there can be no trust, no improvement and nothing other than player discontentment. 
A coach needs to know his players’ weaknesses and strengths, and he [...]

The basics of attacking rugby in one score.

This try has it all. Handling, attacking the ball at pace, timing of the support run, strong decision making from the ball carrier in knowing whether to release the pass or set up the phase and some fine presentation from every player who went to ground that generated quick ball and [...]