Not everyone can train with discipline and attentiveness. Coaches in schools and clubs are always faced with a few players who lack the conventional attention span! Indeed the rates of Attention Deficit Disorder diagnoses has rocketed in recent years.
For the rugby coach, these kids are easy to spot. They are bundles of energy, extroverted and bouncy, [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 29, 2009
Dealing with short attention spans and ADD.
March 27, 2009
Using Tyres to Replicate Bad Ball.
This drill is taken from the Western Force site. We wouldn’t be big into drills here, but there is a good emphasis on practical skills in this one.
The 9 has to dig the ball out of the tyre, replicating bad ruck ball.
The runner can alter his line, pace and [...]
March 24, 2009
The future of Irish Rugby in the wake of a Grand Slam…
15 years from now Ireland will see the real consequences of a first Grand Slam in 61 years and a first Championship in 24 years.
Success is contagious. As the grown-ups struggled through the sweetest of hangovers on Sunday morning, how many kids drifted outside, imagining the cathedral of the Millennium Stadium, [...]
March 23, 2009
Paul O’Connell, Tommy Bowe and Declan Kidney post Grand Slam interviews…
“Once you play to the end, anything can happen… you have to learn to do that in life.”
March 12, 2009
Staying ahead of the rugby coaching curve. Change.
It can be very difficult to change your methods, especially if they are working. Change is hard. Change is uncomfortable. Change makes people feel redundant and insecure.
Despite this, change is an essential factor in success, be it in business, sport or life. Change prevents staleness and inoculates against complacency. However, it is not all bad. [...]
