WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:14.039 How are you doing? Welcome to the Rugby League Coach Podcast, 2 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:17.399 Episode two hundred and fifty three. We're in season four. 3 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:20.800 My name is Lee Addison. I am the owner of 4 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:25.879 Rugby League Coach dot com dot au. I'm a coach mentor, coach, educator, 5 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:30.160 coach consultant, and I'm also the author of Rugby League 6 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:35.399 Coach thirteen Game Changing Conversations Transform Your Coaching. I consume 7 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:38.479 a lot of water, and that water on. This podcast 8 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:41.560 is sponsored by the Global League Network and you can 9 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:47.280 find them at Global League dot Network. Going to go 10 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:53.479 straight into some tactical things here and technical things have 11 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.759 you noticed over the last five six years in the 12 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:01.880 NRL and in Super LEA. I suppose there tends to 13 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:10.599 be a shape now that centers, wings, second rows in 14 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.439 particular tend to run in attack now they tend to 15 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:18.480 go into out, so they tend to go, if you like, 16 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:23.799 forty five degrees across towards the corner flag as they're 17 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:31.719 attacking the opposition try line. I've had this described to 18 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:36.680 me as a bit like just changing your angles when 19 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:39.920 you're running up against your opposition center or your opposition wing, etc. 20 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:48.599 I still personally can't get my head around why you 21 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.239 wouldn't attack touch line to touch line, i e. Everybody 22 00:01:52.280 --> 00:02:01.519 in shape in field balance if you like, and let 23 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.879 the ball do the work in many cases, come back 24 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.400 to me admin at Rugby League Coach dot com to 25 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.639 tay you at Rugby League Coach on socials if you've 26 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.319 got any thoughts on that. And then the other one 27 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.520 is a little trend that's come through in the NRL 28 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:24.360 over the last few years and particularly is forward running 29 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:28.000 tighter to the ruck and then running something of an 30 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.439 over's line to get away from the ruck. Now. I 31 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.199 think a lot of this is because a lot of 32 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.879 players like to hit and spin and go into the 33 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.520 tackle at the NRL level, backing into it sometimes because 34 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.520 you can then accuse the opponent of doing a crusher tackle. Okay, 35 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.159 so I think there's a little bit of that, But 36 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:00.319 again my personal coaching philosophy, start wide at the ruck, 37 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:05.960 six seven or eight meters wide of the ruck, run 38 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:08.919 straight and then cut a slight unders line, or run 39 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.639 straight or cuts a decent unders line. There's no point 40 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:16.840 running anywhere near markers. I don't understand that anybody who 41 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:22.120 runs an over's line risks when they open the body 42 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:30.039 up getting really really rattled with shoulder contact. You can 43 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:32.080 go tighter to the ruck when your rucks are faster 44 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.319 because the markers won't get to you. So there's something 45 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:38.520 else to think about. Again, Contact me if you've got 46 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:43.280 anything to challenge me. There. We've had an outbreak of 47 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:49.759 forwards that now pass the ball, and a lot of 48 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:51.560 them don't know why they're doing it, they don't know 49 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:56.639 where they're doing it. The reality is passing should be 50 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.159 for when somebody is in a better position than you, 51 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.360 and quite often now we've seen that all levels of 52 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:08.280 the game, some forwards who just get in and pass 53 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:12.560 the ball and it smacks of I can't be ours 54 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:17.959 running the football, quite frankly. And this has impacts on 55 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:24.480 pivots because you're six or seven and sometimes you're thirteen, 56 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:26.959 and back in the day it used to be you're thirteen, 57 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.839 and then we sort of turned our thirteen into another prop, 58 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.879 another middle, and now we seem to be going back 59 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.279 round again, except we're using the thirteens in places as 60 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:44.639 a pivot now. I was doing this twenty five years ago. 61 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:49.319 I wanted my fullback on We're thirteen to act as 62 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:54.720 pivots to confuse the defense, and I don't mind that. However, 63 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.480 many teams just adopt this without thinking it's through, without 64 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:05.759 thinking what impact could that have on six and seven 65 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.199 and their direction and their direction will play what impact 66 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.360 can that have on the structure of the set? Again, 67 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.959 if you're willing to challenge me on that, or you 68 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.959 want to come up with some theories for me to 69 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:25.759 digest and therefore for public dissemination on this podcast. Adding 70 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.079 at Rugby League coach dot com dot a you at 71 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:34.720 Rugby League Coach on socials, many of you contact me 72 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.519 about the differences between coaching Division one and Division two players. 73 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:45.519 So a's and b's, I suppose whichever way you want 74 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:52.079 to look at it. The most basic advice I can 75 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.879 give to you that will make sense without having met 76 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:59.199 your players and without looking at the quality of the 77 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:07.439 side that you're dealing with. The best way of summing 78 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:10.480 this up is, for every three bits of information you 79 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:20.040 give top players, give your second division or your reserves one. Okay, 80 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.399 so if in the first grade or in your Division one, 81 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:29.399 you like to say, hold the ball, take the set 82 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.759 to the left, and then go and then shift right, 83 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:39.839 and then I don't know, throwing or under an inside ball. 84 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.160 That's three bits of information. You might just say to 85 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:48.079 the regis team, hold the ball. Well, you might say 86 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.920 hold the ball and just move it when you see space. 87 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:56.639 So that's a very simple answerer thing to what you're 88 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:01.040 looking for. And what's the difference between these players. You've 89 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.720 got to remember, players that aren't in your first grade, 90 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.600 in your Division one team or whatever labels you put 91 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:12.160 on it, they're not as good as the ones that 92 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:15.600 you put it in the top grade. But why aren't 93 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.240 they as good? Well, they're probably not as good physically, 94 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.120 they're probably not as committed. But even if they are 95 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:28.000 as good physically and in terms of commitment, it might 96 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:32.079 be they struggle to process information quickly enough into action, 97 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.959 and that is quite often what separates the top from 98 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:44.399 the top. So many of you are coaching at levels 99 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.879 where you no doubt have to coach against an opposition coach. 100 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.279 You know, sometimes you can coach a game and you 101 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:54.839 realize that if your team holds the ball, you'll win. 102 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.680 Or sometimes you'll coach a game and you realize the 103 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:02.240 opposition are just better than so you're just trying to 104 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:06.480 cling on. But many of you coachure levels where all 105 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:10.120 things are equal, and you've got to outthink your opponent. 106 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:14.160 So how would you look at the game? How would 107 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.160 you study it, how would you study it's in game, 108 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:19.879 and how would you study it if you saw a 109 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:24.519 video of your opponent beforehand. I'll give you some pointers 110 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.680 to think about. Well, obviously, you want to know what 111 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.560 their exit sets are, like, what their good ball sets are, 112 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.159 like good ball being the opposite end of the field 113 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:37.080 from your own try line. However you want to define that. 114 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:41.360 You want to look at their defensive system, their market system. 115 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.039 Defensive system. Is it up and in? Is it up 116 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:47.080 and out? Is it spread? Is it compressed? Is it 117 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:52.600 compressed in some areas spreading other areas the market system 118 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:57.960 first first market chase, second, hold, hold and fold or 119 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:08.399 split marker. And then after that, have a look at 120 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.279 how your opponents give up ground. So in the video 121 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.799 that you're watching, or the game that you're watching live 122 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:19.399 of your opponents, or even in the game that you're coaching, 123 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:25.080 how do they give up ground? Is it when you 124 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:27.759 move the ball sideways? Is it when you target a 125 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:31.440 certain defender in the line, is it when you play direct? 126 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.759 And what's most common when they give up a line break? 127 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:45.320 Is the weak defenders. Is there a weakness in the system. 128 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.320 Is there an opportunity to repeat a couple of sets 129 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:56.360 on them and then they get tired, And then of 130 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:01.639 course you've got your own considerations. Now there'll be some 131 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.080 games where you have to put your best defensive team on. 132 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.200 I think, and I always think at the start of 133 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.320 the year you should always put your best defensive team 134 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:12.519 on if you've got that option, i e. Put a 135 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:18.000 defensive thirteen on the field to start. Give up a 136 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:19.960 little bit of attack. You know, you get some players, 137 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:22.720 don't you, who are great in attack, but as a 138 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.200 rule they can't defend very well. LOOKI Galvin being one, 139 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.519 Michael Morgan used to fall off tackles all the time. 140 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:35.639 James Maloney did. And when you say that person's good 141 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:37.759 at attacking, you've got to wonder whether the juice is 142 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.159 worth the squeeze. And I think for somebody like I 143 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.840 don't know, Terrell Sloan, who's going from the Dragons in 144 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.799 the NRL to Super League, I would imagine that the 145 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:53.960 Dragons coaches have felt that the consistency in attack the 146 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.879 juice is not worth a squeeze for the defensive lapses 147 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:07.200 that may happen, have a think about doing something different. 148 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:10.080 I'll say this until I'm blue in the face. And 149 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:13.480 there's still people who comment on a post on a 150 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.799 clip where I said, what's rugby league's obsession with going 151 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:20.320 down the middle of the field. And there's even people 152 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.000 who wrote things like what does this pomino? Or tell 153 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.440 me you know nothing about rugby league without telling me 154 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.759 you know nothing about rugby league, or tell me you 155 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.399 never played rugby league because you don't go down the middle. 156 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:41.799 Why do teams do early shifts and make massive breaks? Honestly, 157 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:46.240 the thickness out there, and some people, I'm sorry to 158 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:51.080 be so blunt about that, most kicks failed because of 159 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:56.759 poor kick protection from your own team. So if the 160 00:11:56.840 --> 00:11:59.559 kick isn't protected and the defense rushes up in your face, 161 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:04.000 as a kicker, you actually have to kick it higher 162 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:07.120 to get over the defense, whereas if you're kicking off 163 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.919 the front foot, you can kick the ball at a 164 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:15.559 lower trajectory and kick it further. So make sure you 165 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.279 kick protections in place. I guess what I'm doing today 166 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:22.519 is giving you some little things to think about own 167 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.559 in your own coaching. On the defensive side of the ball, 168 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:33.679 how often do you con see tries in certain areas 169 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.879 of the field. I in my coaching have found that 170 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:43.720 one of the weaknesses of my defensive system is an 171 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:48.240 area of call the corner flag pocket, which is basically 172 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.720 on our own goal line on the short side right. 173 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:58.320 So I've done things in the past to counter that. 174 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:12.320 I find a lot of players defensively ease themselves into games. 175 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:19.440 They want to know how hard they can go and 176 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:29.120 whether it's full gas or not throughout the game. Players 177 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.879 will always try and pay themselves through the game. So 178 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:36.720 if you want good collision and good defensive rocks from 179 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:41.759 the start of a game, you must demand it from 180 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.600 the start of the game. It's something you need to 181 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:51.320 be talking about in the sheds. Many of you will 182 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.399 struggle with defenders who come out of the defensive line 183 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.240 but actually don't achieve anything. So they jump out of 184 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:02.159 the defensive line and you think it'd be great if 185 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.159 they tackle somebody at some point, but they just fly 186 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:08.000 out the line and it causes more hassle for you. 187 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:11.519 There's two things you need to do then. Number One, 188 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:14.279 sometimes that player jumps because they want to tackle on 189 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.200 a certain shoulder and you've got them on the wrong 190 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.519 side of the field. So think about that. You know 191 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.000 that you know what I'm talking about, don't you when 192 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.159 the balls going sideways and one of your defenders just 193 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:29.759 shoots out for no reason. But the second thing I 194 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.399 want to discuss with you is that if you don't 195 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:36.720 want them to jump and they can't get it into 196 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:40.039 the head, I'm telling you now, a jumper will always 197 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:48.440 jump and give them three maximum in I don't know, 198 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:53.840 three games or one game, and then you need to 199 00:14:53.879 --> 00:15:02.200 make a change. Most of you will have discipline issues 200 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.399 with your team at times, and I can guarantee if 201 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.000 you analyzed your penalties, most of them would come from 202 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:17.200 your front row. So it's about educating your players on 203 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:22.480 why they're giving those penalties away and why they shouldn't 204 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:28.559 give those penalties away. Quite often we like to simplify 205 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.679 this and go always tick props doing thick things. Well know, 206 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.840 you want those props to be physical, and then sometimes 207 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:42.639 that they go over the line or you want them 208 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:46.519 to be the biggest players on the field, and sometimes 209 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:53.240 they don't make decisions that benefit efficiency of defense. It 210 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:58.399 just benefits the efficiency of themselves. So be very wary 211 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:06.399 of that, particularly at the start of the year. Be 212 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:10.360 careful when you're analyzing your training, when you're analyzing your games, 213 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.480 and when you're in games, be careful of the difference 214 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:29.120 between moving fast and rushing so fast feet rather than 215 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.399 rushing to do things and being fast too fast. In 216 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.840 the head, you want fast feet and I can't mind 217 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:45.200 as a footballer. And there's also a difference between panic 218 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:57.519 and intensity. Intensity is energy. Intensity is quality of what 219 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:01.039 you do and the noise you bring with it, and 220 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:06.640 the energy you bring with it, it can sometimes spill 221 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:14.720 over into panic. Though. For your team to perform at 222 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:21.279 its best, you need to make sure as many players 223 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:25.599 as possible in your team can get go forward, even 224 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:29.000 if it's in their own way, even if that go 225 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.880 forward is running in a ball, getting tackled and immediately 226 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:39.759 drop into the ground to play the ball. Because go 227 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:42.240 forward is one of two things. Go forward is what 228 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.400 pain Has does when he runs right through people and 229 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:49.960 knocks them out the way. But the go forward would 230 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:55.920 be minimal if he didn't get down to play the 231 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.319 ball really quickly as well. And that's the second part 232 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.440 of go forward. And sometimes just getting down to play 233 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:04.759 the ball quickly is enough to go forward. What's go 234 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.160 forward when the defense hasn't got time to get back, 235 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:15.680 So maximize that for every single player, study their tape, 236 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:20.480 study their game, whatever works for them. If you can 237 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:22.920 get go forward and every single player, you go very 238 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.759 far to winning an awful lot of football games and 239 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:33.519 always spend time on your good ball. I'm gonna have 240 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:41.279 a drink, Thank you, Global League Network. A too handed 241 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:48.000 carrier of the football helps any player, any attacking player, 242 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:51.640 do what they want with it in an efficient way. 243 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.519 It literally changes your game because if you just pitch 244 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:58.119 yourself now and you've got the ball under your elbow 245 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.799 tucked under your wing, you're only going to do one 246 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:08.119 thing with it, aren't you. If you've got it in 247 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.359 front of you, you can promote it, you can pass 248 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:12.920 it left or right if you need to. You can 249 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.720 kick it with either foot if you want to, or 250 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:18.240 you can then tuck it under the wing and prepare 251 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:22.640 a fend with your other arm. But you can do 252 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:24.759 all this with relative ease if you've got it in 253 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:30.960 two hands, and if you've got support play. It's easier 254 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:35.640 for you to engage opposition defenders when you've got the 255 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:37.759 ball in two hands, because they don't know what you're 256 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.039 going to do. With it until you've done the same 257 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:47.960 things twenty times and then they know. And I always 258 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.920 teach players and I think you should that once you 259 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:52.440 get a two handed carry habit, you open up a 260 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:58.920 whole new world, a whole new attacking world. And remember, 261 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:00.960 as a coach, what you like go is what you allow. 262 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:11.880 What you walk past is what you allow. 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So 271 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:52.799 if you want a big run to September and you 272 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.039 want to win your comp or get close to it, 273 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:02.839 and you're a little bit worried about money, come on 274 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:05.200 the coach Mentor program on those terms. Give me a 275 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:12.799 buzz and we'll chat. We'll chat some terms. I'll give 276 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:15.440 you an offer that hopefully you'll find hard to refuse. 277 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:18.400 You get hold of me admin at Rugby League Coach 278 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.359 dot converte you at Rugby League Coach and Instagram or Facebook. 279 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:24.680 If you want to send a message, if you go 280 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:27.200 on Rugby League Coach dot com dot ay you and 281 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:29.480 go to the contact page, you'll see a phone number. 282 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:35.799 I hope as many view as possible are listening to 283 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:38.160 the Super League three sixty podcast those of you are 284 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:40.680 interested in it. It's mostly about Super League, but we 285 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:45.359 do mention the NRL as well, myself and Australian English 286 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:52.240 based journalist John Davidson. And I'm also regular on the 287 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.279 Loose Carry podcasts from Zero Tackle, I do a coach's 288 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:58.200 corner analysis on there each week and I do a 289 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.920 weekly column for Zero tackled mccolumn. This week was about 290 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:08.759 having some sober analysis of the Origin series, probably one 291 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:13.440 of the worst coach Origin series I've seen. Also the 292 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:21.720 hyperbole around Nathan Cleary. Yes, he played well. Some people 293 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:23.759 wrote to me and said, oh, Nathan Cleary, done enough 294 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:26.319 for you. Nathan Cleary did what he gets paid to do, 295 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.680 which is distribute the ball well, steer his team around 296 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.599 the park, which he did in conjunction with Mitchell Moses 297 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.079 may Iyad who kicked further and ran more than him 298 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:41.440 got better meters in both scores, but you won't hear 299 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:47.440 about that in the mainstream media. But what he also 300 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:52.599 did was a dummy and goal, which he scored from 301 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.559 quite often, if you've watched my analysis of him, he 302 00:22:55.680 --> 00:23:00.359 sometimes does that because he's not organized things well enough. 303 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:02.480 And the amount of times I've seen him do that 304 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:07.759 in rep football and just get clobbered or run down 305 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:11.359 a dark alley. This time he managed to run through. 306 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:16.640 That's fine, well done. He did some support play which 307 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:20.599 you don't have to be a half to do, and 308 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:22.599 he also stripped a ball one on one, which you 309 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:24.880 don't have to be a half to do. So I 310 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:26.559 just think he had a good game and that's it. 311 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:31.920 To say that he's conquered Origin, it's just a stupid narrative. 312 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:34.720 And I've got nothing against Nathan Cleary. I think he's 313 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.680 a damn good player, but he struggles in a rep 314 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.519 arena and the reality is he played like that because 315 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:46.079 Laurie Daily seemed to accept that things were going very 316 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:48.519 wrong after game two, and that's why he was calling 317 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:54.920 himself a leader and arguing with some journalist about being 318 00:23:54.960 --> 00:24:03.400 a leader. And that's why before Game three, the coaches 319 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:07.920 gave their interchange plan out because in games one and 320 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:13.599 two the interchange plan was shocking and Billy Slater wasn't 321 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:18.200 much better either. Some of his decisions around players that 322 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:22.440 stayed on players that were off. We wrote about these 323 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:27.440 on Coach Corner on zero Tackle. But also the big 324 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:31.920 thing for Queensland is shifting ball and play four all 325 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:35.680 the time. I always say, if you can to take 326 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:37.880 three plays before you shift the ball and play four, 327 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.359 that's fifty percent of your players that have gone, fifty 328 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.759 percent of your opportunities that have gone. But if you 329 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:47.759 want to know how dumb the coaching was on New 330 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:51.000 South Wales side of things, it took them until game 331 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:56.319 three to work that out. James in the UK wrote 332 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:58.240 to me, Hey, pal, all good. We have a great 333 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:01.000 boxing gym lined up near the community club and the 334 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.799 sessions are great for kids. Would you utilize this fitness 335 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.279 session as part of our annual training program with thirteen 336 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:09.720 year old lads or would you stick to rugby related 337 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:17.039 conditioning Unless your players are of origin standard, you've got 338 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:20.039 some football work to do and you're preparing them for 339 00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:24.039 rugby league. Save the boxing gym for when it's raining 340 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:25.920 and you can't get on the field, and as we 341 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.480 know in parts of the UK, does that an awful lot. 342 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:35.480 We might remember Joe sent me a message last week 343 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:40.680 about halfs talking, and he replied to me again because 344 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:43.279 I asked him to. If you remember, mate, appreciate the honesty. 345 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.640 Genuinely useful. Right now, my half back runs first receiver 346 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:50.640 and carries most of the organizing himself. He reads the 347 00:25:50.680 --> 00:25:53.400 game two three steps ahead of everyone else, but he's 348 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:57.440 getting swamp teammates screaming for the ball either side of 349 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:01.799 him while a rushing line closing clo in. That's on me, 350 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:06.920 Joe said, not him too much. Low on one kidvest 351 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.599 come off soon and we move into full rules. That's 352 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:13.200 when I'm building what you describe spreading the organized guy 353 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:18.480 organizing across nine five eighths and fullback calling intentions early 354 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.559 instead of demanding the ball late. Should lift the ceiling 355 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:25.279 on my other communicators too, since they won't be boxed 356 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:30.440 in by the two pass rule anymore. Also wanted to 357 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:32.319 let you know that we beat a team that put 358 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:35.960 forty on us last year twenty four eighteen. We beat 359 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.200 them on the weekend. No bench either played the full 360 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:41.720 eighty with nothing in reserve. Your work's been a real 361 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:48.240 big part of turning this group into something real. Best 362 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:50.440 story out of it, though, is my leading, best and 363 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:53.119 fairest right now is a kid and other coach didn't 364 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:56.480 want and handed to me last year. Watching him go 365 00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:59.400 from that to leading the counts as everything about what's 366 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:03.400 possible when kid just gets the right environment. Cheers again, Mate, 367 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:07.519 appreciate everything, no problem, Joe. And all I'll say is 368 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:14.039 the more you've got kids talking to your half, the 369 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:16.240 more you've got to go out as a coach, because 370 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:18.720 it's better than having nobody talking to the half, or 371 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:22.039 nobody talking at all. Tell your half to go to 372 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.720 the loudest one. Trenting, New South Wales said, Lee, hope 373 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.880 you're well, just letting you know that I'm working on 374 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:33.240 you coming over to the club. So there's a few 375 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.920 clubs now I'm talking to about coach mentoring things and 376 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:39.839 I'll be somewhere this week and I'll tell you all 377 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:45.359 about that next week. Speaking to some coaches in a 378 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:50.119 far flung location, Trent said, listening to your latest podcast 379 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:52.680 just now, and as a teacher it rings true around 380 00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:57.039 learning preferences. Nice chat. I coach a girls under fifteen 381 00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:59.960 tackle side that haven't had much coaching in the past. 382 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:03.240 I took them on at the start and they had 383 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.799 no real concept of game plans. We were the third 384 00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:10.359 best team in the comp. Since taking them on, I've 385 00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:14.119 been coaching letter options off nine and seven which they 386 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:18.000 already knew of, such as X and Y. I've introduced 387 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:20.799 red and green sets and some block shape at the line, 388 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:26.160 along with letter options at the line of plus X 389 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:28.599 tips on behind the roock to a hard runner behind 390 00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:32.960 mark a box being too an X. Anyway, we have 391 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.599 now improved our results by thirty points per game and 392 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:38.200 we are now rolling into the Semis. A slight favorite 393 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:42.160 point is they have not yet done a single block shape, 394 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:44.400 plus or box to date in a game, but we 395 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.200 are playing out of our skin with confidence. It would 396 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.480 be an interesting point to see if yourself or others 397 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.680 have found something similar in the past and why the 398 00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:58.400 improvement has been so steep considering they're not getting two plays. 399 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:01.960 Is it a girl thing or a rare side that 400 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.480 hasn't been coached like this before. Now it's not a 401 00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:07.200