WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:06.200 How are you doing? Welcome to episode two hundred and 2 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:09.599 forty eight of the Rugby League Coach Podcast, and we 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.519 are in season four of it. My name is Lee Addison. 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.079 I am the owner of Rugby League Coach dot com 5 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:18.960 dot au. I'll be telling you plenty about the end 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.160 of financial year sales soon. You'd be silly not to 7 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:23.879 have a look at it if you are a coach. 8 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.120 I am also a coach mentor, a coach educator, a 9 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:31.679 coach consultant, and the author of the first rugby league 10 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:34.200 coaching book in about thirty years. I think that book 11 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:38.399 is called Rugby League Coach Thirteen Game Changing Conversations to 12 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.520 Transform Your Coaching. One of our sponsors on this podcast 13 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:44.920 is the Global League Network and you can find them 14 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:49.759 at Global League dot Network. That's the Global League Network 15 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:57.600 at Global League dot Network. Many people want to succeed 16 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.000 in sports. Many people want to succeed in rugby league, 17 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:06.079 but not many know or are willing to go to 18 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:15.760 the depths or are willing to do even what it takes. Now. 19 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:21.920 This Rugby League Coach Podcast constantly covers these two areas. 20 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:25.799 Maybe they're three areas. People that don't know what to 21 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:29.040 do to succeed in Rugby league definitely covers that one. 22 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.079 And then there's the lens you have to go to 23 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.040 and what and just willing to do the basics. So 24 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:42.120 maybe that's one topic separated into two specific sections. You see, 25 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.239 rugby league's a metaphor for life. And have you ever 26 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.840 wondered why so many people who have played rugby league 27 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.599 in particular talk about it differently to any other sport. 28 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.319 Rugby league teaches us lessons that stay with you for life, 29 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:00.760 doesn't it. I think it's because ruby league is one 30 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.599 of the great metaphors for life, because it strips away pretense, 31 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:10.520 It exposes character, rewards resilience, and it has a way 32 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:18.879 of knocking the nonsense out of people. Life eventually tests 33 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:22.400 us all, doesn't it. But rugby league just does it 34 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:27.840 earlier and more often. And this is why I've campaigned 35 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:32.400 for years against these rules for juniors where we don't 36 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:37.039 count points. It's the adults that need educating, the adults 37 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:39.199 that need dealing with, not the kids. We need to 38 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:45.240 teach them resilience through sport. In many areas of life, 39 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:49.159 you can hide behind a title, a qualification, a social 40 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.439 media profile, and you can hide behind opinions until they 41 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:54.479 come back to bite you on the backside. I suppose 42 00:02:56.039 --> 00:03:00.280 rugby league doesn't care about any of that. Its us 43 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:03.919 simple questions. Can you do your job, can you stay 44 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.240 in the fight, can you get up when it hurts? 45 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:13.000 Do you trust your teammates? And can your teammates trust 46 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:20.319 you as a coach. For what is now nearly three decades, 47 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.800 I've seen so many talented kids arrive thinking they're something special, 48 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.039 and that's been put into them by parents, by agents, 49 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:38.960 by supporters or pseudo supporters, and then when they experience 50 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:43.080 their first tough session, their first setback, or their first 51 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:50.360 genuine challenge, you realize they've not got the gumption, they've 52 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:55.599 not got the constitution to go much further, despite everything 53 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.960 suggesting on the outside originally that they were something special. 54 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.680 And the game has a way of humbling people very quickly. 55 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.240 And that leads us to one of the most important 56 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.680 lessons and one of the most powerful lessons that rugby 57 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:15.080 league can teach us that a rugby league field is 58 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.800 one of the most honest environments you'll ever encounter. Where 59 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:22.040 can you hide? Every player is exposed? How many of 60 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:24.319 you put what you perceive to be the weaker players 61 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:26.720 on the wing, yet they get exposed by high kicks, 62 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:31.199 one on one tackles, grubbers that they find difficult to 63 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:36.079 deal with. Every weakness eventually gets found in a team. 64 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.240 If you're one of those teams, and you'll know these 65 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:43.759 kind of teams, they're very good against most sides, but 66 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.240 when they come up against the one or two best teams, 67 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:52.920 they're beaten before they start. And that's because every weakness 68 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:58.360 eventually gets found. And the other thing about rugby league 69 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.319 is on a field, every player has to contribute. It's 70 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.480 not like rugby union where the game can pass you by, 71 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:06.759 or cricket, where you can miss out with the bat 72 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.839 or not take any wickets as a bowler, or the 73 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.199 ball mup comes to you in the field. In rugby league, 74 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:20.680 the game always comes to you at some point, and 75 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.639 if you miss a tackle, everybody sees it. If you 76 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.560 don't chase hard enough for the kick chase, everybody sees 77 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:29.199 that when the fullback steps through or the opposition wing, 78 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:34.439 if you avoid the tough carries, your teammates will sniff 79 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:40.240 that out. And the real world works in the same way. 80 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.720 Characters get revealed under pressure, leadership gets revealed during adversity. 81 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:51.240 Commitment gets revealed when things become difficult, and rugby league, 82 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:53.959 as a coach and as a player, teaches us accountability 83 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:04.600 because accountability is unavoidable. When I think about my coaching career, 84 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:10.800 the best teams always have somebody who puts their hand 85 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:18.360 up and says, I got that wrong. The best teams 86 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:22.079 have always had somebody in them that puts their hand 87 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.560 up and say I got that wrong. And quite often 88 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.480 it's the player that gets things right most of the time, 89 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:35.160 and that creates and helps create a culture that goes 90 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:39.279 through the team of accountability. And maybe that's why rugby 91 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.519 league has always attracted a certain type of person. And 92 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:47.639 maybe it's not just rugby league. Maybe it's successful rugby 93 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:51.879 league because it's one of the toughest sports on the planet. 94 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.079 If we're not hitting each other, we're wrestling each other. 95 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:56.920 If we're not wrestling each other, the game is so 96 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:02.000 fast and it's very hard to keep up. But the 97 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:06.360 toughness of rugby league isn't just physical. We often focus 98 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.920 on the collisions, the fatigue, the injury, is the speed, 99 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:14.279 but the real challenge is getting up repeatedly, getting back 100 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:18.160 the ten meters, staying disciplined. When disciplined, when you're exhausted, 101 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:24.319 performing under pressure. At every level we play and every 102 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.279 level we coach, there's some pressure and it's all relative 103 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.720 and one of the toughest challenges, particularly in this day 104 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.639 and age, where we deal in a lot of the 105 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.120 here and now, with a lot of sound bites, a 106 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:42.560 lot of instant gratification on social media and whatnot. The 107 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:46.439 skill of turning up week in week out is even 108 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:51.839 harder for us to coach, even harder for us to 109 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:58.680 carry out as coaches and players. A lot of that 110 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.120 comes down to how we deal with victory, how we 111 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:06.639 deal with defeat, and I often refer to the twin 112 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:13.720 impostas of victory and defeat. We don't play rugby league 113 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:15.720 and we don't coach rugby league because it's easy. You 114 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.040 play it and you coach it because somewhere deep down 115 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:24.360 you enjoy testing yourself and success in sport and success 116 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:29.560 in life often comes down to consistency, resilience and showing 117 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:35.879 up week in week out, and they're exactly the same 118 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:42.840 qualities that are required in rugby league. And that brings 119 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:45.039 me to something else that has always made rugby league 120 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.840 different from many other sports or good rugby league. Good 121 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:54.200 rugby league teams different from other teams is that there's 122 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:56.840 no room for egos. The game is bigger and the 123 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:02.559 team is bigger than any individual. Rugby league is the 124 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:04.919 ultimate team sport in many ways. You can't win a 125 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:07.759 game on your own. You can lose a game on 126 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.840 your own in many ways, but you can't win one 127 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.320 on your own. And the best players still need teammates. 128 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.480 The great outside backs need go forward from their forwards. 129 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:23.440 The forwards need great delivery from dummy half. The dummy 130 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:29.879 half needs quicker play the balls. Every try involves unseen work. 131 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.080 People moving off the ball, people working off the ball, 132 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:40.879 the kick pressure, the kickchasers, the tough carriers coming out 133 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:46.240 of trouble. The best teams have the most people working 134 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.559 off the ball. You know about eighty five percent of 135 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:53.000 the game is off the ball, and the game has 136 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:57.879 a way of exposing selfishness. And you might be coaching 137 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.960 a player now who wants a spotlight, who wants the credit, 138 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.200 who wants the pats on the back, Depending on what 139 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:06.360 level you're coaching out, they may want the headlines, they 140 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:09.440 may want the social media clicks. But if they're not 141 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:13.399 contributing to the team. The group will quickly notice, and 142 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:18.200 the group will eventually start to eat away at that 143 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:23.720 or that will eat away at the group. The best 144 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.080 players I've coached in my time haven't always been the 145 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:31.200 most talented, but they've been the most selfless. They'll put 146 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:37.799 the team first, and because of that, they became the 147 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:45.200 players that everyone respected. Maybe these are the reasons that 148 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:50.080 rugby league means so much to so many people. Rather 149 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.159 than just being a game, it's a teacher. It's a 150 00:10:52.200 --> 00:11:01.080 metaphor for life. It teaches humility, resilient accountability. Team work 151 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:06.360 teaches us that life isn't about avoiding hard things, it's 152 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:11.679 about developing the character to face them. Imagine you speak 153 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:13.879 to your team about some of these things this week. 154 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.919 How would that change your team? How would that make 155 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.159 your team feel? Because rugby league has always been a 156 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:24.840 game for real people, people who are willing to work, 157 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.799 willing to sacrifice, are willing to get back up after 158 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:38.840 they've been knocked down. One of the most common questions 159 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:45.159 or concerns to get from coaches is about transmitting the 160 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:52.279 message that you have in your head through your mouth 161 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.559 to the team. I don't know a better way of 162 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.559 saying that that makes sense. But you've got it in 163 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.120 your head. You've got a team in front of you. 164 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:04.519 You know what you want to say, but it's about 165 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:11.320 getting that message drive. And as you get older and 166 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.799 more experience as a coach, you learn the skills of 167 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:19.679 word economy and things that you used to say in 168 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.480 ten paragraphs you can now say in three lines or 169 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:28.879 two lines or three words. And one tip I will 170 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:38.480 give you though, to help with your messages are using acronyms. 171 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.120 So an acronym, for those who don't know, is a 172 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:50.480 way of using letters to spell a word. Or in fact, 173 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:53.559 I want to get your dictionary definition, because I've probably 174 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:57.600 just butchered. That is a shortened word from the initial components, 175 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:00.840 usually the first letters of a multi word phrase, and 176 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:05.159 pronounced as a single word. Ae I E fomo is 177 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:09.879 fear of missing out right. So that's what an acronym is. 178 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:16.559 Or you can go down the feelings route. So I've 179 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.080 spoken plenty of time in the times in the past 180 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:22.159 how Donald Trump is a great messenger and he appeals 181 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.960 to certain emotions. But for those who remember the movie 182 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:31.120 Coach Carter, he often had plays and phases of the 183 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:36.840 game and related them to his past girlfriends and gave 184 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:40.200 them names such as Diane and Ruth or whatever the 185 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:45.879 names were in the past, and I would still do this. 186 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:51.120 I've used a partner's name to suggest how you keep 187 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:56.120 them happy, and I've used that as an analogy. This 188 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.919 podcast is for all the families, so I ain't going 189 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:02.080 into any detail right now, but I will give you 190 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.200 the PG one. So I want players to tackle with 191 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.639 their shoulders with an S shaped body with their studs 192 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.720 in the ground, So there's an easy one s SS. 193 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:15.200 I want them to have good line speed, so there's 194 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:19.720 another S speed line speed, shoulder contact, S shaped body 195 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:24.679 stoods in the ground. And then when they've got the 196 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:26.840 player on the ground, I don't want them to just 197 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:28.919 let go, so I asked them to squeeze. So there's 198 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:34.320 five s is there? Okay. When I teach grip pass, catch, carry, 199 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:40.240 I break it down into grip tip flick or clap 200 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:46.240 grip tip flick, so very easy for players to remember, 201 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:49.919 and the feedback I'm giving to the players while they're 202 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:58.399 practicing is often just tip flick, tip flick. Okay, So 203 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:00.440 have a think about how you can simply fire your 204 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.159 messages in that regard and what you can then do 205 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:06.879 is with one of your letters or one of your 206 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:11.159 phrases that's like a headline underlined and then you can 207 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:15.039 describe it a little bit underneath, but repeat your headline. 208 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.679 Your headline is something that you can repeat constantly, or 209 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:26.000 the letter. Say to your players, what are the five s's, speed, shoulder, contact, 210 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:30.600 s shaped, body, stoods in the ground, squeeze. If I 211 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:35.960 was to ask you at the end, could you remember them. 212 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.240 I've been in Maitland this last week in New South Wales, 213 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:45.039 near Newcastle, working with the coaches at East Maitland Juniors. 214 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.960 You'll see some pictures on the Rugby League Coach socials 215 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.799 this week at Rugby League Coach on every social media 216 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.399 platform apart from x which is at rl Coach on 217 00:15:54.480 --> 00:16:02.360 the net. About to go through now is a review 218 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:07.799 of maybe the last month of things I've seen with 219 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.159 community coaches out there, and quite often it's the community 220 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.399 coaches that feel that they can't be told anything because 221 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.879 they know it all. It's the coaches who don't come 222 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.879 to the seminars, who don't listen to this podcast. It's 223 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.639 the ones who have been doing it this way and 224 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:31.600 they know best and Unfortunately in many areas this is 225 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:42.919 still very prevalent. Don't ever at me on social media 226 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.840 with any reason to give your players a lap on 227 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:50.240 the oval to warm up the people who say it's 228 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:56.799 a chance to socialize. Surely you can be more imaginative 229 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:01.159 than sending them on a lap. And there are an 230 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:05.720 awful lot of hours and ways to socialize before and 231 00:17:05.759 --> 00:17:13.799 after the training session. I won't labor on that point. 232 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:17.599 The next one is key. It's the amount of time 233 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.279 coaches allow their players to just stand around, either standing 234 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:28.319 around waiting for the next activity, standing around listening to instructions, 235 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:33.559 and your instructions go on forever. Or it might be 236 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.599 a drill of some kind where most of your players 237 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.920 have stood still. They're either stood still because you've not 238 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.359 measured how many people will be moving at any one time. 239 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:46.319 You just put one drill on one version of it, 240 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:49.880 and you've got twenty players and four people are active 241 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.240 and the other sixteen aren't. Or it might be a 242 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:56.799 drill where you need players to stand still for prolonged periods, 243 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:01.039 and then you wonder when do things like that? And 244 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.799 this sounds this sounds really harsh when I say this, 245 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.759 but I am here to make a difference to you. Okay, 246 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:10.720 you wonder why you player switch on and off during 247 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.799 sessions where you always have to bring them back, Well, 248 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:16.440 it's because you leave them standing around too much. I'm 249 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.680 talking about drills where you know, two lines of players 250 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.200 might be stood in a line and then a player 251 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.400 from each line has to run all the way round 252 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:29.160 the line and the other player on the other line 253 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.319 runs the other way and one tackles the other. Things 254 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:35.400 like that, Like all that standing around when there can 255 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:39.200 be so many more repetitions of the tackling skill and 256 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:46.200 the running skill, particularly as we get colder in Australia 257 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:54.960 and in England, that's ten times more important during your winter. 258 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.519 In New Zealand you have the same day, and you 259 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:05.640 have four different seasons, so even more important there another one. 260 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:12.359 And you'll get this with so many teams, particularly the 261 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:17.480 younger ones. You'll have smaller groups. And I can't emphasize 262 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:19.640 this enough. Just go to another coach and say can 263 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:23.440 we train together? And if they're not willing to do 264 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.279 it on that night, give them advanced notice and say, look, 265 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:30.279 if we get under x amount, can we bring them 266 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:35.720 over to you? And what you'd even do there? Without 267 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:37.839 even trying it. You would work with another coach and 268 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:44.400 pick up some other ideas, and the players would benefit 269 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:49.920 from each other too. Another one of copped a bit 270 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.440 for on social media is this obsession in rugby league 271 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:59.480 about going down the middle. How dumb are some people? Right? Sorry, 272 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:01.200 I can't think of a better way of saying this. 273 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.160 How dumb are some people? There are other options rather 274 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:11.680 than just running down the middle into an opposition's biggest players, right, 275 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.480 There are other options. You can move them around for starters, 276 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:18.599 or you can run at smaller players or players who 277 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:23.440 don't like tackling. But there's an obsession in rugby league 278 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:27.680 with going down the middle all the time. Think differently, guys, 279 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:38.319 think laterally, think outside the square. Also, if you're doing unopposed, 280 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:40.960 or even if you're playing and you go three three 281 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.599 in and then halfback gets the ball and tries to 282 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:47.559 do something, you're literally wasting fifty percent of your players. 283 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:51.799 That three in has allowed the defense to read and 284 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.680 get prepared for what's coming. So, for example, if you 285 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:58.440 go from the left to the right or the middle 286 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:03.759 to the right, let's say, and therefore you create alongside, 287 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:06.000 the defense is probably going to be ready for your 288 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:10.519 shift or you're half doing something, and we have this 289 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:12.599 culture of halves who just want to touch the ball 290 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:17.680 and they don't know why they're doing it. So there's 291 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:25.119 my little rant over. For the past twenty seven years, 292 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:28.519 I've had an incredible journey with rugby league coaching, but 293 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:33.319 I do think that potentially the work I do right 294 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:36.759 now and I've done for the last few years, is 295 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:42.039 the stuff I'm most passionate about because the challenges in 296 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:51.440 communities in the Bush in terms of rugby league, I 297 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:54.839 think are huge, and they're getting bigger every year, and 298 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:56.839 I think the game has really took its eye off 299 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:00.480 the ball. I doubt how much of the game, and 300 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.039 I don't think one visit every three years is a 301 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:07.359 sign of care because the big problem is is how 302 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:12.359 many talented kids miss opportunities simply because of where they live. 303 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:20.240 I see kids in city areas miss out just because 304 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:22.799 of where they live or what club they go to, 305 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.720 So imagine in the bush what is happening. I've seen 306 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:30.400 local coaches who work their backsides off, but they don't 307 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:33.440 have access to the same development opportunities as anybody in 308 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:39.839 their equivalency in the metropolitan areas and I've always believed 309 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:45.440 that geography and costs should never determine a person's future. 310 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:47.960 So many hurdles for so many of our kids and 311 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.279 so many of our coaches to get to where they 312 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:53.200 deserve to be just in the city, so it's even 313 00:22:53.240 --> 00:23:00.000 worse in the Bush. So I've taken steps through Rugby 314 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:06.920 League Coach to work with a non for profit organization 315 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:14.839 that is seeking to help exactly what I'm talking about 316 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:20.960 and provide opportunities free of charge to those in regional communities, 317 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:28.440 and I've helped them set up. They've made me a 318 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:38.880 director of the Sydney and Brisbane based people involved. But 319 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.519 this is absolutely for the areas that don't get help, 320 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:47.200 so it's going to be free to the user. It's 321 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:51.319 going to be free, free development for coaches, free development 322 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:57.480 for kids. And obviously they've come to me because I've 323 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:01.880 got an out I've got outreach, the abilities, I've got 324 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:10.440 contacts I can use my channels to promote. Now there 325 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:17.759 is an event already in Bush, New South Wales that's 326 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:24.480 taking place and these guys want me there to do 327 00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:27.519 that to help. It will be free for all the 328 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:32.640 kids and the coaches, and it's going to be many 329 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:40.640 more come as a result of this. There is a 330 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:45.119 GoFundMe right and I'm mentioning this. I don't profit from this. 331 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:50.720 Rugby League Coach doesn't profit from this. The people running 332 00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:54.839 this thing don't profit from this. I'm not going to 333 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:57.240 broadcast any more details about them. I want you to 334 00:24:57.240 --> 00:24:59.119 get in touch with me if you're interested. So at 335 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:02.559 Rugby League Coach Socials, Facebook and Instagram for a message 336 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:05.480 Admin at Rugby League Coach dot com to tell you 337 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:09.519 over the email say Lee, we're interested in getting these 338 00:25:09.559 --> 00:25:12.279 guys to our area and we'll have a proper conversation 339 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:16.400 about it. And the key is it's about remote communities 340 00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:21.640 throughout New South Wales and Queensland, but also Perth, Melbourne, 341 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:26.400 any anywhere where the game isn't doing what it should 342 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:31.680 like I said this week, I've been in Maitland in 343 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:37.039 New South Wales to deliver exactly what we're talking about here. 344 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:40.839 And I've already this year been to Junine or Andre Young, 345 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:48.240 Okie Clifton. Last year I was in war Hope, Bunderberg. 346 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:56.440 I could go on and on and on. We're going 347 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.440 to be working with local coaches to lead programs and 348 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:05.359 I'll be men touring them. So again, if you've ever 349 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:10.359 reached out to me, reach out again. If we couldn't 350 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:13.680 do something for whatever reason, reach out again, because this 351 00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:22.200 group are keen to help, because it's about growing participation 352 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.319 in the game and growing coach development in the game. 353 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:31.319 Nobody apart from the players and the coaches will benefit 354 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:34.640 from this or profit from this, I should say so. 355 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:41.400 Nobody wins financially from this. Every dollar raised will go 356 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:46.079 directly towards the delivery of the program. And if you 357 00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:48.599 do ask for that gofundmelink, you'll see I've put the 358 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:51.920 first one hundred dollars in. So if you can contribute, 359 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.039 no matter how big or small, one dollar, ten dollars, anything, 360 00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:59.680 please know it's going to be going to a really, really, 361 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:02.880 really good cause. To help clubs that are struggling to 362 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.599 keep juniors on the field, to help coaches that don't 363 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:12.000 get any guidance. Last week I asked to we're producing 364 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:16.960 athletes more than we're producing footballers. I asked how many 365 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:20.720 teams genuinely play what they see? I need some water, 366 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:26.960 Thank you, Global League Network. I spoke last week about 367 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:31.240 rugby league's obsession with systems, physicality, and bliance structure and 368 00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:34.920 how there's not enough focus on creativity, vision decision making 369 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:43.720 with Football IQ. And last week I wrote something on 370 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.680 zero tackle dot com about what Origin one taught us 371 00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:55.599 about structure, instinct technique. New South Wales won because Queensland 372 00:27:55.640 --> 00:28:01.000 had twelve men, didn't they or did the win because 373 00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:05.319 they finally realized they had an overlap in the defense, 374 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:14.079 even though that overlap existed throughout the game. Most analysis 375 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:17.759 has focused on the sendoff. This analysis is going to 376 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:23.839 focus on the coaching lessons hidden inside the game, mainly 377 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:28.519 that structure can become a straight jacket and technique still matters. 378 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:35.039 So New South Wales played for an hour like a 379 00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:37.880 team stuck in the nineteen nineties. They're constantly played in 380 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:40.440 a shape, in a structure. They were waiting for the 381 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:46.400 perfect picture. They looked organized but weren't necessarily dangerous. How 382 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.119 many times did Queensland have defenders on the ground after 383 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:53.119 a tackle? How many times Queensland have players not back 384 00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:55.079 in the defensive line after a tackle? Because of the 385 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:59.119 speed of the rocks. All the metrics in the game 386 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:01.359 right now suggest you can get quick play the balls 387 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:04.799 very easily. They tend to mean there's gaps in the 388 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.359 defense around about the halfway line. They're slow retreating, defenders, 389 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:13.440 lazy markers, defensive lines aren't set, and their space everywhere. 390 00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:15.799 But New south Wales just weren't looking at it, weren't 391 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.480 seeing it because Lorie Daily and Nathan Cleary had them 392 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:26.079 in this structure. So you can either play what you 393 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:27.680 see on the field, or you can play what the 394 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:31.359 playbook tells you, or you can have a good mix 395 00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:36.440 of the two. Are your players in your team learning 396 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:42.720 football or they're learning patterns of play? Are they learning structure? 397 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:47.720 That's what origin can teach us from that point of view. 398 00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:54.400 The second thing is when Ponger got sent off, New 399 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:59.960 south Wales suddenly found their eyes. Do not underestimate. Sometimes 400 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:02.640 players go, we're not playing to that structure anymore. It's 401 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:07.119