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Dan speaks to one-half of the Squidge Rugby Owen brothers, Will.

With a massive following for their YouTube channel, Squidge Rugby analyses matches in a unique, bringing insight and entertainment in equal measure.

Will is an avowed rugby geek but also still plays and coaches his local team's colts.

Dan asks him about:

• How Squidge Rugby come into the world .
• Translating complex plays into a layperson's language is tough. How do you bridge the gap?
• His coaching journey.
• How does the analysis inform his coaching?
• Do top coaches truly innovate? 
• Should international teams aim to win every game or build towards the World Cup?
• What's the best game he has ever seen? 

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Welcome to the Coaching Knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Gavin Blackburn, Head Coach Cambuslang RFC.

Focusing on the scrum rugby we are going to cut to the root on how to deal with a pack that’s dominating you.

Gavin was a former age-grade district and international prop. He was a member of Saracens’ academy programme in the late 1990s, then played club rugby for London Scottish, Glasgow Hawks, Glasgow Southern, and Stirling County coached at Dunfermline, Kilmarnock, Biggar, Garnock, West of Scotland and Stirling County, and was a development officer for five years between 2012 and 2017 in the Garnock Valley.

His philosophy is to develop players by using a drill to demonstrate key points and then putting them into a conditioned game to work on these points/skills under pressure.

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You can contact him at gbperformancecoaching@gmail.com

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Dan chats to Sean Phelan, the brains behind Fill Your Boots, the way that players and clubs can connect to fill the gaps on a Saturday.

In the podcast, they discuss:

• How Fill Your Boots works
• Why clubs struggle to find players and creative ways to solve this
• How clubs can welcome players
• How can the women's game grow now
• How do we help retain volunteers

If you want to find out more, go to the Fill Your Boots website, it's totally free!

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.

This week's guests: Charlie Morgan, Senior Rugby Writer at The Telegraph and Ross Hamilton, freelance Rugby Analyst working with BT Sport, formerly Saracens and England analyst.

THIS WEEK’S CONTENT

Two Sides – British and Irish Lions Documentary

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – Michael Lewis

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED  

Creating Chaos Through Ruck Speed – Alan Dymock

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Dan Cottrell chats to Owen Woods, Community Rugby Coach for Gosport & Fareham RFC.

Owen was previously in the Air Force for 4½ years and then the police for 17 years. In June 2021 he started up his full-time role to promote rugby and its core values, the vision being to put the club and values at the heart of the community.

He has coached his son's rugby team for the last six years. He is a level 2 coach, a qualified referee working in schools in the local community delivering rugby sessions to children from 7 to 13.

Owen was recently awarded the Gosport & Fareham RFC Coach of the Year Award. 

We discuss the following areas:

• How do you start sessions...exactly...in terms of what you say? Lots of coaches talk for too long, so how do you get across the pertinent information?
• How his background in the police force has informed his coaching.
• While we would all love to spend time hone skills in small groups, how can we be effective when we have lots of players at our sessions?
• If players are being disruptive, how do you make sure they don't spoil the session for everyone else.

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.

This week's guests: Lesley McKenna, Coach Developer for UK Sport and Sport Scotland as well Programme Manager for GB Snowsports (@LesleyMckenna) and Sarah Murray, Performance Psychologist and owner of Performance Edge Psychology (@Sarahsportpsych). 

THIS WEEK'S CONTENT:

• The Art of Impossible – Stephen Kotler
• The Long Win – Cath Bishop

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Wandering Workshops – Lesley McKenna
• Performance Edge Psychology – Sarah Murray
• The Rise of Superman - Stephen Kotler
• Radical Gains: The GB Park and Pipe Story – Sam Mellish and Pat Sharples
• Spiritual Activism - Alastair Macintosh and Matt Carmichael
• Isles of The West – Ian Mitchell
• Looking Sideways Podcast – Matthew Barr
• Mans Search For Meaning – Viktor Frankl
• Everyday Positivity - Kate Cocker 
• Winning Together – Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh
• Hustle - Netflix

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Dan chats with former Fiji captain Deacon Manu, who's now coaching in Singapore.

Deacon has travelled the rugby world, representing Fiji and the Maori All Blacks, as well as playing for Waikato Chiefs and the Blues in Super Rugby and then for the Scarlets in Wales.

They chat about the coaches he's experienced and now coaching with developing players and new players to the game.

• What was the playing and coaching journey before Singapore? 
• What are the challenges of working in Singapore?
• How is the game is growing in this part of the world. What lessons can we all learn for the sake of the growth of the game? 
• Do you need local heroes or can you rely on the global game to develop interest? 
• Where are the new players coming from and how do you keep them in the game?

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• Physical Education Sport Pedagogy Journal
• Self Determination Theory
• The “What” and “Why” of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behaviour - Deci and Ryan (2000)

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.

This week's guests: Dr Suzanne Brown, Clinical Psychologist and Emotional Fitness Consultant working within business, sport and education and Dean Leek, Performance Mindset Coach within the sport and business sectors 

This Week's Content

On Children – Kahlil Gibran

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Liminality
• Motherhood and Finding Yourself – Lisa Marchiano
• No Two Children Have The Same Parents – Gabor Mate
• Sports Parenting: Negotiating the challenges of the Youth Sports Journey to Help Kids Thrive – Paul Gamble

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Dan chats to Kevin Mulcahey about his experiences coaching both novices and experts and how you need to change to meet their needs.

Kevin coaches Gaelic football and hurling, Ireland's national sports as an assistant or head coach at all ages and levels. He has also worked in multiple roles on three continents as a coach of various stripes like assistant coach, S&C coach and performance coach in Aussie Rules, basketball, soccer, rugby, tennis, volleyball, hockey and in numerous other 1-2-1 roles over 28 years. 

He also runs Designing the Game on Facebook where he challenges coaches to think about their approaches to coaching. His main role is an owner-operator S&C and sports performance coach at TMC Performance Coaching. You can catch Kevin @movementcoachkm on Twitter where he is active and responds to DM’s.

In the podcast, they discuss the following:

• How much does your team coaching approach change when you are dealing with experts and novices?
• Using "pivot" players in any sport.
• A principle of play has normally been set by coaching experts from the past, no matter what sport you are in. How much do players need to know about a principle before you start working on it? And how do you introduce it?
• How to use deliberate practice in the right context.
• How long do you let a team or player do something which is clear to you that is inefficient, and despite your nudges, they continue to do it?

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