Coaching Outside Of Practice
Jeepers it can be hard helping individual players develop within a team sport. Balancing individual and whole team development can be a...
Kyle McLean
- Nov 9
- 2 min
Have The Black Ferns Saved Rugby?
“Our management are allowing us to fully express ourselves. And I guess that does mean that we are playing how we did when we were kids –...
Kyle McLean
- Nov 1
- 1 min
Circle The Critical Stuff
Following practices, you often hear coaches say “I needed more time.” “I needed more time for that drill.” “I needed more time for that...
Kyle McLean
- Oct 27
- 1 min
Who’s Leading My Day?
Are you really busy? Under the pump? Got no time for anything? Well, consider… what is the first thing you do when you arrive at work? Do...
Kyle McLean
- Oct 20
- 1 min
Hot Review v Cold Review
What’s the best way to check if you’re coaching any good? Not sure…. But there’s no doubt you’re a keen coach who is always looking for...
Kyle McLean
- Oct 12
- 1 min
The Smoko Break
Our parents' generation grew up with less clutter and external noise than we face now. There weren’t any mobile phones, email, or social...
Kyle McLean
- Oct 5
- 2 min
A Chicken And Egg Situation
Who do you recruit first? Players of Coaches? Sport Leaders from schools and clubs have a big task recruiting and retaining coaches. It...
Kyle McLean
- Sep 28
- 1 min
Collaborative Coaching Teams
If you are coaching with other coaches, are you all maximising the impact and involvement of the entire coaching group? Or are you guilty...
Kyle McLean
- Sep 21
- 1 min
It Gets Messed Up In Games
Q. Why do coaches use unopposed team runs? (Rugby context) 18 Year Old Girl Rugby Player: “I think they (coaches) just do it cause they...
Kyle McLean
- Sep 8
- 1 min
Helpful Feedback
“I’ve had a coach way back and he told me I need to put on 10kg. And I was like how am I supposed to do that? I was like 14. So give me...
Kyle McLean
- Sep 6
- 1 min
Build A Culture, Then Coach Us
“It's always good to build team culture and once you build team culture you can start working on getting your team better. If you get...
Kyle McLean
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Prioritising Physical Activity
The life of a coach can get pretty busy. And most coaches out there are likely to be parents and working full-time. We give so much of...
Kyle McLean
- Aug 24
- 2 min
How Important is Pre-Skill?
"If a tackle takes 2 seconds to complete, and you do 15 tackles in a match, that is a total of 30 seconds of tackling. So if we are on...
Kyle McLean
- Aug 11
- 2 min
Why Have Prize-Givings?
Is it time to scrap end of season prize-giving's? Most sports associations have them. Most teams have them. Schools have them, and even...
Kyle McLean
- Aug 4
- 2 min
Less Talk More Pictures
So this is how we often coach… “When a player is tackled, the first person to arrive at the ruck needs to look to see if there are any...
Kyle McLean
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Who Would Want To Be All Black Coach?
Now poor old Ian Foster, Sam Cane and the All Black camp have been put through the ringer the past week or so. Every man and his dog...
Kyle McLean
- Jul 6
- 2 min
Stop Repeating Answers
Coach: “So what can we do differently in this game?” Player A: “We need to get the ball to width.” Coach: “Ok, we need to get it to...
Kyle McLean
- Jun 29
- 2 min
Navigating Rep Programmes
The value of youth representative programmes is currently under the spotlight from many sporting organisations across the country and...
Kyle McLean
- Jun 22
- 2 min
What You Lookin At?
Do you find yourself just watching the ball? It’s an easy trap to fall into, but there is so much else going on in practices and/or...
Kyle McLean
- Jun 15
- 2 min
Great Players = Great Coach?
The great All Blacks (and now Black Ferns) coach Graham Henry was once asked, ‘what’s the secret to becoming a great coach?’ He simply...
Kyle McLean
- Jun 8
- 1 min
Kapa Haka And Coaching
“When you do kapa haka, you’ll be practising a bracket which is the full set of songs. So you’ll have haka, the poi, different waiata....
Kyle McLean
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Money For Tries, Goals, Points
“Do you know… my Dad gives me $5 for every try I score.” (8 year old kid) Sound familiar? Dishing out money is a common incentive parents...
Kyle McLean
- May 25
- 1 min
High 5’s And Fist Pumps
Did you know that the more touch that happens between players, the more likely they are to play well? In a study conducted at UC...
Kyle McLean
- May 18
- 3 min
Structure, System and Shape
Evidently New Zealand has a point of difference in unstructured attacking rugby, where teams and players have an ability to create stuff...
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