Coaching Categories
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Specialist Coaches
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Staff Coaches
Areas of Expertise
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Analysing the opposition
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Attacking Framework
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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 Attack
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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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Lineout Skills
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Passing Skills
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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 Blind side Flanker
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Position Specific No 8
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Position Specific Open side Flanker
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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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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 Attack
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Team Profile, Strategy and Selection
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Team Strategy
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The Game Plan Model
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The Review Process
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Turnover Ball
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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
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