Graham Henry

Coaching Categories

  • Specialist Coaches

Areas of Expertise

  • Analysing the opposition
  • Attacking Framework
  • Back Attack
  • Back Defence
  • 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
  • Creation and Exploitation of Space
  • Defence
  • Developing a Comprehensive Coaching Programme
  • Developing a Season Game Plan and Patterns of Play
  • Developing a Team Profile
  • Dynamism in a Game
  • Kicking skills
  • Leadership
  • Passing Skills
  • Phase Play Defence
  • Planning a Season Campaign
  • Planning a Weekly Programme
  • Position Specific 1st 5/8
  • Position Specific Halfback
  • Principles of Play
  • Role of Core skills in team play
  • Role of the Coach
  • Runner Calls and Team Patterns
  • Selection
  • Sequence Plays
  • Set Piece Defence
  • Tackle Defence
  • Team Strategy
  • The Coach/CEO/Board Relationship
  • The Game Plan Model
  • The Professional Rugby Environment
  • The Review Process
  • Transformational Coaching
  • Transition Rugby
  • Vision, Handling and Decision making

Background

  • IRANZ Specialist Tutor
  • National Coach, All Blacks Current
  • Highly successful Auckland NPC & Blues Coach
  • Former Welsh National Coach
  • Coach of British Lions Tour of Australia 2002

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