Pat Lam

Coaching Categories

  • Specialist Coaches

Areas of Expertise

  • Aerial possession
  • Analysing the opposition
  • Back Row Defence
  • Coach Philosophy
  • Communication and Man Management
  • Contact and the Breakdown
  • Contact to Continuity
  • Continuity and Support Play
  • Counter Ruck
  • Defence
  • Developing a Comprehensive Coaching Programme
  • Developing a Season Game Plan and Patterns of Play
  • Developing a Team Profile
  • Lineouts
  • 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
  • Selection
  • Set Piece Defence
  • Tackle Technique
  • Team Profile, Strategy and Selection
  • Team Strategy
  • The Game Plan Model
  • The Review Process
  • Turnover Ball

Background

  • IRANZ Position Specific Coach – Loose Forward
  • Head Coach Auckland Air NZ Cup 2004 - 2008
  • Head Coach Pacific Island Team 2006
  • Assistant Coach Scotland 2001 - 2003
  • All Black 1992

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