Liam Barry

Coaching Categories

  • Specialist Coaches
  • Staff Coaches

Areas of Expertise

  • Analysing the opposition
  • Attacking Framework
  • Back Row Defence
  • Coach Philosophy
  • Communication and Man Management
  • Contact and the Breakdown
  • Contact to Continuity
  • Continuity and Support Play
  • Counter Attack
  • Creating a Successful Team Environment
  • Defence
  • Developing a Comprehensive Coaching Programme
  • Developing a Season Game Plan and Patterns of Play
  • Developing a Team Profile
  • Lineout Skills
  • Passing Skills
  • Phase Play Defence
  • Planning a Season Campaign
  • Planning a Weekly Programme
  • Position Specific Blind side Flanker
  • Position Specific No 8
  • Position Specific Open side Flanker
  • Principles of Play
  • Restarts
  • Role of Core skills in team play
  • Role of the Coach
  • Runner Calls and Team Patterns
  • Selection
  • Sequence Plays
  • Set Piece Defence
  • Skill Acquisition
  • Skill Development with Players
  • Tackle Defence
  • Tackle Technique
  • Team Attack
  • Team Profile, Strategy and Selection
  • Team Strategy
  • The Game Plan Model
  • The Review Process
  • Turnover Ball
  • Vision, Handling and Decision making

Background

  • IRANZ Position Specific Coach – Flanker
  • All Black 1993-1995 10 Matches, 1 test
  • 3rd generation All Black
  • Assistant Coach with the Auckland Blues 2006 - Current
  • Hawke's Bay NPC Technical Advisor 2005
  • North Harbour 1991-1996, 2001
  • Waikato Chiefs 1996
  • NEC/Kubota, Japan 1997-2003

« Back to Staff