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Posted Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by rlcm57

Come to the Four Nations Tournament with RLCM and RL Experience? The Four Nations tournament is set to played in both England and France. The first round of fixtures over the weekend of 24 and 25 October will see Harlequins RL’s Twickenham Stoop ground host a repeat of last year’s World Cup Final between Australia and New Zealand. England will open their account against France at Doncaster’s Keepmoat stadium.

A week later England will play the Kangaroos at Wigan’s JJB Stadium and New Zealand will travel across the channel to play France.

In the final week of group fixtures World Champions New Zealand will travel to Huddersfield to play England at the Galpharm Stadium, whilst Australia will take the short flight over to France.

The final of the tournament will be played at Elland Road, Leeds, the venue of the 2005 Gillette Tri-Nations Final on Saturday 14 November.

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An Extract from the RLCM Yearbook with Tim Sheens

Professional sport is full of it. Used in conjunction with a team's collective skill, it is the hidden element that will win coaches games.

Every time the West Tigers run onto the field they use it as their number one defence against attacking teams.

It has the potential to determine the final score; if players use their initiative to implement it into the game correctly, they will be praised. If they fail to pull it off, it will hang upon them like a death sentence.

What could possibly hold this much power? Simply put, it is risk.

The risk factor in the game of rugby league is high; whether it is in regards to a players physical well being or the element of risk that is incorporated into the team game plan.

Premiership winning coach of the Tigers, Tim Sheens, has formulated his career on it.

Known for his work reforming teams and leading them to success, Sheens attributes risk as a major factor in the team's Premiership win in 2005.

Favourites to claim the wooden spoon, with remarkable odds against them, the Tigers used a mixture of youth and experience, speed, slight of hand and risk to their advantage.

This formula is the culmination of seasons work. Starting with the Tigers in 2003, Sheens knew that taking the Tigers on would always be a gamble; however, it is a gamble that has paid off.

“The risk factor started with me taking the West Tigers in the first place,” Sheens remarks.

Once there, it seemed that taking risks was inevitable.

“You've got to take a punt here and there, [that's] your first thing as a coach.”

If Sheens knows anything about rugby league, it is all in taking chances. Following his move to the Tigers, he was forced to build from the ground up. His first challenge was to take a group of rookies, and turn them into first grade players, something he took in his stride. Surely enough, he had his critics; his methods were unorthodox, and his team was just too small. Yet Sheens did something that all coaches should do; kept his own coaching style and worried about the Tigers, not his opposition.

“As all coaches do, you look at your strengths and your weaknesses. Look at what you've got, what your strengths are. If you're smart, you'll coach accordingly.

“Coaching today, too many coaches are coaching against the opposition, they're negative in their approach. The main thing is to focus on a couple of things that they do [regularly], and then focus on your own game.

It was by following this philosophy that the Tigers accomplished so much.

“Keeping the focus on your own game I think was the secret for us. We did not worry about what the other teams were going to do.”

Keeping it brief and keeping his instructions simple, Sheens implemented a regime based on focus and control. By ensuring that his team had the basics down first, this allowed room for an element of risk.

Concentrating on the little things; passing the ball before the line, marking defenders four on two and four on three, and adopting a different mindset is the answer to the game today. Advocating the method of passing the ball, Sheens practices this tactic as a diversion to put hesitation into the opposition.

As well as running the ball from the scrum, this creates an opportunity for the attacking team to pick holes in the defense. The result of integrating such diversity into the game plan is this; the opposition will be continually caught off guard, leaving the attacking team with a direct advantage.

Yet where does a coach draw the line on giving his players free reign to try new things on the field?

If the team is not accustomed to taking risks, and they haven't done so all year, then it will be hard for them to do so. They don't have the necessary confidence in the coaches decision or in themselves to take that chance. This is why Tim Sheens believes that risk is a main proponent of the game from the outset.............

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Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 by rlcm57

RLCM Extract with Steve Gough from RLCM eBook 34

Four Foundations of a Good Coach

“......when we speak about knowledge, we refer mostly to knowledge of the game and knowledge of the players,” Gough says.

“My philosophy is to try and increase knowledge all the time. In relation to game knowledge, I try and talk a lot to other coaches.

"Unfortunately, the way our profession is not a lot of information sharing goes on. However, I find you learn a lot from aspiring coaches, the ones who haven’t established themselves as yet. They tend to think more laterally.”

Knowledge of players; of their strengths and most importantly, weaknesses, can often be the determining factor in how quickly a coach can start improving his squad.

A coach will want to know a player’s passing ability either side, their evasive capabilities, tackling strength etc when formulating game plans or deciding on positional play.

Furthermore, they need to know who will stand up when the game is on the line, who will take the tough hit-ups and whether the player responds to firm or gentle encouragement.

Organisation
Along with knowledge, organisation is the other facet of coaching which players can easily adjudge. A coach who doesn’t pre-plan and relies on thinking on the run will eventually be caught short.

Organisation is the glue that holds a coach’s system together and helps to avoid poor management of time and resources.

“If you don’t have a plan, you won’t do yourself justice,” Gough says. “Being disorganised, I believe, lets down your players and the whole club.”

On surface level, it may seem organisation pertains to formulating drills, timetables and managing equipment.

However, while these three are essential on a week-to-week basis, Gough says it is the little extra things which mark the effectiveness of your organisational skills......

Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 by rlcm57

RLCM Extract with John Lang from eBook 33

RLCM: How do you see the role of hookers today, compared to when you were playing?

LANG: There is not a lot of difference except that obviously scrums used to be different and winning the scrum was very important.

Apart from that, the role is the same. It is just that the players now are better at it. They are like heavy- duty halfbacks.

They’ve got the skills of a halfback but they’ve got the physical capacity to do more heavy work around the rucks. They have to do the heavy tackling of sometimes 110kg forwards so there is that tough physical part of the job but it is also a great advantage if they’ve got the other skills.

There is the long pass, the accurate pass, passing both sides, running from dummy half and kicking.

An important part is working with the tight forwards too. It is just knowing when to pass, when to hold it up a little bit, when to throw it straight off the ground to a forward coming a bit wider.

There is nothing worse than a dummy half coming away from the ruck and holding the ball up and then giving it at the wrong time. He can get his players hurt.

It really is an art. They have to have intuition. You can’t teach it if a player hasn’t got it. You can enhance it but you can’t teach it. They have got to have it naturally.

Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 by rlcm57

RLCM Extract with South Sydney Rabbitohs Head Coach
Cohesion is the key with the 1, 6, 7 and 9 players.
Everybody has an important part to play within a rugby league team. From the wingers and the centres, to the trainers and the coaching staff. They all play an essential part in the teams overall performance. However, there are four players in this team that are an integral part of any game plan every week without fail.
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RLCM Extract from RLCM Yearbook with Kurt Wrigley ....these are typically back of the field strategies. For example, take the ‘stay to get out’. With the ‘stay to get out’, the team is essentially in one area, with the possibility of ‘getting out’. The team may not ‘get out’ in the finish, depending on the defence of the opposition, yet they have had the capacity and the shape to get out and shift........Read more..

Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 by rlcm57

RLCM Extract from RLCM eBook 12 with Wayne Bennett
RLCM Q. Advice to new coaches coming into the game
Wayne Bennett. I have two pieces of advice. One would be to be your own man and believe in yourself. Secondly, perseverance, I am here today because I perservered. There have been coaches over time who have had some tough times and a lot have walked away, well I didn't walk away I hung in there......
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Extract with Luke Ellis from RLCM Yearbook 4 .....again, if you’re a coach who is an auditory learner, you tend to talk a lot to your team, because that’s how you learn. Remembering that learning styles are only preferences for individual players, all three approaches should be used in combination to assist in providing variety.
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RLCM Extract from RLCM eBook 28 with Carl Jennings Penrith Strength and Conditioning Coach “........I believe that rugby league is the most physically demanding sport in the world. It’s the only sport where if a player gets injured, he gets up again and is expected to make another tackle. In boxing the referee will stop the fight.
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RLCM Extract from RLCM eBook 29 with Rod Patison
RLCM Q. What are your thoughts on decision making in Rugby League?
Patison. The ability to make effective decisions is the bridge between an athlete and a footballer. Good decisions give power to skill, athleticism, combinations and teams. They give the best players, the edge, ‘on and off the ball’ in both attack and defence. Rugby League is continuous decision making; what line will I run?...Read more.. ">
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RLCM Extract - From an article written by Dr Roger Peters, Sports Pyschologist the Extract is from RLCM eBook 7 and is a part extract on the topic of Goal Setting ..if motivation is the energy that drives us, then goal setting provides navigation and direction. That is, goals tell us where we are going and how to get there. We have previously mentioned self efficacy and specific goals with specific tasks being emphasised as the essential ingredients of self efficacy. I want to reinforce that now, and talk about goal setting for a little while. Read more..

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