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CONTENTS

* RLCM - QUOTE FOR MONDAY

* RLCM - COMMENT - Preparing the player on match day
By Gary Roberts Rugby League Writer

* RLCM - COACHING EXTRACT -PHIL GOULD written by Robert Rachow

* RLCM - POSITIONS VACANT UPDATE

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MONDAYS COACHING QUOTE

"...........an organised defensive line that constantly pressures the
attack will force them to 'chip' or 'grubber' kick. This allows the
defensive team a chance to regain possession........"

Glenn Bayliss, ARL High Performance Coach from his article 'DEFENCE'
in RLCM Book 26

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RLCM COMMENT- Preparing the player on match day
By Gary Roberts http://www.rlcm.com.au/book16.htm

Preparing a junior player on match day can be a task for some coaches and
although there is no definite procedure to follow a course of action must
be planned.

There are three times that a coach has contact with the team as a whole:
pre game, half time and after the game.

Every coach will have different ideas of how to perform duties on match day.

Discussed below are some ideas for coaches to think about. They might not
work for some and for others it might get them thinking of another approach
or revive some past thoughts that may assist their team and develop better
players.

To begin with;

[1] Don't use winning as the motivation for your players. Use the learning
of skills as the motivation. Everyone realises that a winning attitude is
natural, but only bring it into your coaching, as your players become
teenagers.

[2] Learning the sport is the correct attitude for coaches to take.

[3] Coaching your point of view is one of the biggest mistakes that coaches
make. Let the players be themselves and you coach around their ability.

[4] Getting players to do things is a real psychological challenge; some
players cannot understand the coach's instructions and ideas.

PRE GAME

* Know Your Players

The NRL and SL games often show a peek view of the dressing room prior to a
big game and you will see players doing various things whilst they are
getting ready to prepare for a game.

Some are getting a rub, others are already suited up and prepared, others
are sitting reading the program fully clothed in their ordinary clothes,
some are sitting listening to music through a portable CD players, the
reference being that all players are i
ndividuals and have different personalities and their preparations differ
from game to game, your players are no different

A coach must respect and give the players the space that they require, but
at the same time you must know what they are doing and why they have a pre
game ritual because you need to reinforce the attitude and recall to him
the good things he did at trainin
g.

* Speak Only of Positives.

One negative sentence or a negative thought created in the players' minds
can blow away a week of positives.

Players will have failings that coaches will be aware of. The coach has
spent time trying to improve those errors, but don't mention them only talk
pre game only the positives. Tell the player how well that particular part
of the player's game was performe
d at practise during the week.

* Talk About Attitude

Moving around from player to player reinforcing the attitude for the game,
talk of confidence that the players have in each other. These two points
'attitude and confidence' are for the coach to deliver on what ever subject
he wishes to bring under those t
wo topics.

As said previous the coach does not have to talk about winning. But he can
talk about the expected improvement of their skills and concentrating on
the correct method of performing the skill during the game.

HALF TIME

* Explain What You Saw

You are the coach so you are expected to understand what is happening out
there.

Good things and bad things happened, players are alway going to make
mistakes and that will affect the team,

But don't get the players into the sheds and berate them by telling them of
all the 'dumb' things that they did. Praise them for some of the good things.

* Ask Questions

Ask the players why they took a particular option or how they reached the
decision to make a particular play, whether it was good or bad.

It is expected that you would know most of the answers, but your job is to
assist the players and make them better, and by having this information it
is going to assist you to assist them.

Ask the players collectively, "How are you going?"

If there is problems ask them, "Do you know why it is going wrong?"

Ask them "How can the problem be corrected?"

If you are in front in the scoreboard ask them how did it happen, ask them
what else can be done to maintain the pressure and too further the score in
the second half.

* Tell Them Something Constructive

Remember as the coach and you should know the answers, but the players'
input is important to you as it develops good communication, a vital
component to the puzzle of successful coaching.

After taking on board all they have told you, which should gel with your
own observations, you can now explain something constructive to reassure
them of how to correct the errors that they have advised.

Fulltime

The game is over. Whether they have won or lost, ask what they did wrong,
and then congratulate them don't harp on the bad points.

Reminding the players of their errors performed in this match at this point
is not going to solve a problem.

The first item is to praise your players, praise them on any improvement.
Reinforce the good things they did and make a mental note to fix what you
saw and to address the problems the players told you about at half time.

* So begins the planning for the first training session of the week.

Forget what happened last week, because if you don't you will have the same
mistakes week after week, as a coach you are looking for constant improvement.

* Reminding players what went wrong does not solve problems.

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EXTRACT FROM RLCM BOOK 25

COACHTALK 1 Printed 2000

PHIL GOULD - written by Robert Rachow

Goals, no matter how desirable, almost always at some point appear
unobtainable. In everyday life these goals may arise in the form of losing
weight, finding a better job or any other strain of self-improvement. In
Rugby League though, these targets usuall
y pertain to being placed near the top of the ladder, or when broken down
to week-by-week aims, beating the better teams on a regular basis.

At first some sides may seem out of reach and impossible to defeat,
particularly at the junior level where physical disparity so often
determines the outcome.

However Phil Gould, former Sydney City, Penrith and Canterbury coach has a
distinct principle which he believes helps to avoid the enormity of an
impending fixture and create a level playing field. In essence, it revolves
around viewing the present time in
a reference frame of its own, rather than in relation to an eventual goal.

"Certainly, try to be as good as you can be on any given week, but
understand there will be ebbs and flows in the course of a season, both
individually and as a team," he says.

"Really do try to keep yourself occupied in the short term, try to keep
yourself in the moment. If you do that, each day runs into the next and
each game runs into the next and each month runs into the next and then
in the longer term each season runs into the next season. It's day in, day
out honesty. Review what you have done, work on what you can improve and
look forward to the events of the next day.

"Rather than just looking at the end result all the time, concentrate on
the job at hand. If you get tied up in the win/loss situation too much and
worry what this game might mean later in the year, you carry a whole burden
on your shoulders. It is the sam
e as what you expect from your players. When they are out on the field, you
want them to concentrate on what they're doing right at that moment, not
what might happen in the future."

In the dreaded situation of shaping a team at the bottom of the ladder
into genuine title contenders, every aspect or avenue of possible
improvement needs to be scoured. And by the same token, every
department of vulnerability needs to be either completely overhauled or
lessened in its impact. Gameplans, like the slogan of canned seafood
company John West, often revolve around the concept that "the fish that
they reject, make them the best". It is this ethos of selective improvement
that Gould carried with him in his first three seasons at Sydney City,
taking the Roosters from fourteenth, to ninth, to fourth in successive
campaigns.

"I think the key thing is that I'm very aware of weaknesses, as a team,
as a coach and as a person," says Gould..................more


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