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Touch Rugby – Friend or Foe?
2008-04-17 18:15:50
Playing touch rugby can pay dividends when it comes to full contact matches.

Touch Rugby to Make Your Players Shine
2008-04-17 17:59:42
This simple game concentrates on running, support play and passing ability, ensuring a great skills and fitness workout for the entire team.

Using Touch Rugby to Improve the Basics
2008-04-17 17:21:04
How touch rugby can allow your players to experiment and extend their core skills.

Catching Passes
2008-04-07 17:36:45
Even the best international players drop the ball, so it is useful to remind ourselves what the key principles are. And we are not just talking about a normal catch and hold.

5 Ways to Make New Players Part of Your Team
2008-03-27 22:47:17
Better Rugby Coaching - A successful team is an apparently stable one. Peter Tann offers a five step guide to reducing the unsettling nature of introducing new players.

Is your team getting enough fuel?
2007-12-24 17:11:14
Nutrition and diet is an area we can all improve on and as coaches we are in a strong position to influence players to become healthier. In simple terms, what we eat and drink provides the fuel for us to train, play and recover from training. What we need to know is what is the best fuel?

5 Steps to More Effective Rucking
2007-11-19 19:41:33
Spruce up your rucking technique to get quicker ball

Goal kicking for mortals
2007-10-24 22:22:49
Grant Fox, Michael Lynagh and now Jonny Wilkinson – all great kickers who were vital to their country scooping World Cup victory. So what can the not so greats learn from these all time greats, to help us kick winning goals?

Speed training - 5 Ways Maximise Pace
2007-10-15 23:41:13
It is said that a good big’un always beats a good small’un. The same is true of a good fast’un. Jonah Lomu has a lot to answer for!

Ten Great Ways To Use Tackle Bags
2007-09-24 23:09:52

The man-sized tube provides a coach with a good chance to help improve his players tackling, but are you really getting the most out of your tackle bags. We think “outside the tube” to get maximum benefit from this piece of equipment.

Are You Brave Enough to Try This?
2007-09-05 22:29:52
Sometimes it is worth trying something completely different – make players work on an area of the game but do it in a strange way. I tried this out on some Level III coaches at a coaching course last June, after using it extensively with my regular teams. The outcomes were more beneficial than I expected – are you brave enough to try it out?

Line Out Lifting
2007-08-13 17:52:56
In this issue we look at a crucial area of static play – the line out.

Five easy steps to devising a team strategy
2007-08-13 17:43:17
A team strategy is not just for top-level coaches, it is for every coach. A team strategy will focus your planning and coaching, making the best use of your time, resources and most of all your players.

Touch Rugby (Part 3)
2007-07-25 18:01:07
Try adding the following constraints to add variety and different pressures to the games - remember to work your players outside the comfort zone.

Touch Rugby (Part 2)
2007-07-25 17:54:21
Variations on Touch Rugby

Touch Rugby (Part 1)
2007-07-25 17:51:12
Using touch rugby to make your players shine.

5 Steps to More Effective Rucking
2007-07-25 17:41:35
Spruce up your rucking technique to get quicker ball

Defending against the maul (Part Two)
2007-07-25 17:36:18
This time we are looking at ways of disrupting a maul, and also the latest interpretation of the laws regarding the maul.

Defending against the maul (Part One)
2007-07-25 17:30:32
As Shane Byrne broke Welsh hearts in Dublin on a windy Sunday afternoon with his teams catch and drive tactics, it seems a good moment to talk about defending the maul, something sides are increasingly having to contend with.

A great scrummaging session (part 2)
2007-07-12 19:34:18
In the last issue of Better Rugby Coaching we looked at putting together an excellent scrummaging session. We covered the warm up and then a common training technique of whole-part-whole, where the scrum was formed, tried out, then broken into its constituent parts, before being reformed again. In this article we are going to concentrate on the final “whole” section of the training session.

A great scrummaging session (Part 1)
2007-07-12 19:31:29
In the first of a new series of articles, we are going to explore the techniques of delivering an excellent session in a particular aspect of the game. The technical parts of the area will be briefly mentioned, but it is the translation of the knowledge to the players which can make the real difference.

Making core skills fun – Ball handling
2007-07-12 19:22:48
Improving the core skills is important to player and team. But players, however motivated, will need some new ways of approaching the core skill to add variety to the practices. Here are some different ways of adding an element of fun to handling activities.