Coaching Categories
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Facilitators
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Specialist Coaches
Areas of Expertise
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Aerial possession
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Analysing the opposition
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Back Defence
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Back Row Defence
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Coach Philosophy
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Communication and Man Management
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Contact and the Breakdown
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Contact to Continuity
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Continuity and Support Play
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Counter Ruck
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Creating a Successful Team Environment
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Defence
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Developing a Comprehensive Coaching Programme
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Developing a Season Game Plan and Patterns of Play
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Developing a Team Profile
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Lineouts
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Phase Play Defence
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Planning a Season Campaign
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Planning a Weekly Programme
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Position Specific Hooker
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Principles of Play
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Restarts
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Role of Core skills in team play
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Role of the Coach
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Runner Calls and Team Patterns
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Scrum
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Selection
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Sequence Plays
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Set Piece Defence
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Skill Acquisition
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Skill Development with Players
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Tackle Defence
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Tackle Technique
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Team Profile, Strategy and Selection
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Team Strategy
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The Coach/CEO/Board Relationship
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The Professional Rugby Environment
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The Review Process
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Turnover Ball
Background
- IRANZ Coaches’ Course Facilitator
- Australian Rugby High Performance Manager
- Head Coach, The Blues (Auckland) 2006
- Technical Advisor, Auckland 2005
- Head Coach ACT Brumbies 2002–2004
- Super 12 winners 2004, semi finalists 2003, finalists 2002
- Australian Super 12 Coach of the Year 2002, 2003, 2004
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