David Nucifora

Coaching Categories

  • Facilitators
  • Specialist Coaches

Areas of Expertise

  • Aerial possession
  • Analysing the opposition
  • Back Defence
  • Back Row Defence
  • Coach Philosophy
  • Communication and Man Management
  • Contact and the Breakdown
  • Contact to Continuity
  • Continuity and Support Play
  • Counter Ruck
  • Creating a Successful Team Environment
  • Defence
  • Developing a Comprehensive Coaching Programme
  • Developing a Season Game Plan and Patterns of Play
  • Developing a Team Profile
  • Lineouts
  • Phase Play Defence
  • Planning a Season Campaign
  • Planning a Weekly Programme
  • Position Specific Hooker
  • Principles of Play
  • Restarts
  • Role of Core skills in team play
  • Role of the Coach
  • Runner Calls and Team Patterns
  • Scrum
  • Selection
  • Sequence Plays
  • Set Piece Defence
  • Skill Acquisition
  • Skill Development with Players
  • Tackle Defence
  • Tackle Technique
  • Team Profile, Strategy and Selection
  • Team Strategy
  • The Coach/CEO/Board Relationship
  • The Professional Rugby Environment
  • The Review Process
  • 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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