Representative Coaching Special Part 1

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Hello and welcome to the Rugby League Coach Podcast episode
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266 and we are in season four of it. And
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as far as I'm concerned now, it's officially the off-season.
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As I record now, we're a few days away from
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the Rugby League World Cup, so it's rep season.
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I'm Leona.
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I'm Lee Owen. I've done it again. I am Lee Addison.
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I am the owner of rugbyleaguecoach.com.au, the world's biggest online
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resource for rugby league coaches and players indeed. I'm a
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coach mentor, coach consultant, coach educator, and the author of
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the Rugby League Coach book, 13 Game Changing Conversations to
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Transform Your Coaching. Uh, during this off season, I'm going
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to constantly say this every single week right now, no
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plans to have a break. Might be the odd week
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here and there, but make sure you have a core
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skill focus when you're planning your preseason. So many of
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you will be planning your preseason now for next year.
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Some of you will have been doing it for a
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few weeks because you got knocked out of the competition
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early or something like that. If you want your Rugby
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League fix over the summer months in Australia, the winter
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months in the UK, hope you love your Rugby League
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history because the Rugby League history podcast has now been released.
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You'll have seen it on the Rugby League coach podcast
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platform this last week. That's me, Professor Tony Collins and
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Andrew Ferguson, the owner and the host. manager of the
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rugby league project where you get all your statistics for
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rugby league it's a fantastic resource actually and it's all
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free that is now released it does have its own
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platform the rugby league history podcast but you can for
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a few weeks get it on the rugby league coach
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platform too and then of course we've got super league
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360 with john davidson which will go into world cup
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mode from its next release which will be in a
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few hours within a few hours of this podcast being released.
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Talking of Super League 360, I've got a question on there,
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and quite often I'm getting coaching questions on there. You
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can send your questions to me, admin at rugbyleaguecoach.com.au, on
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the email, at rugbyleaguecoach on socials, message me on Facebook
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or Instagram with that. but I am on socials everywhere
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apart from Snapchat, I think, but I just don't look
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at the messages anywhere. I got a question, though, on
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the Super League 360 podcast about coaching. Take a listen
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to this. Coached properly, that side can have a good tournament.
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The thing that I find in the issue, and this
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is not a knock on Brian McDermott, who is obviously
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been a very successful coach, but he's got four training sessions,
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field sessions with his team before they play Tonga. And
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obviously he's been, you know, he's been doing Zooms and
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been ringing players up from, you know, the Gold Coast
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over to England. And this is more of a question
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for you, Lee, as an experienced coach. If you've got
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four sessions with pretty much a completely new group, because
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if you look at that, there's a lot of players
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there who did not play in the Ashes last year,
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a lot of uncapped players, you know, in Australia. Insemba
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wasn't picked, Thompson wasn't picked, Jake Connor wasn't picked. You know,
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if Billy Smith comes in and Victor Raleigh didn't play,
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you know, what would you do or what can you
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do with just four sessions before?
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You're talking to a coach who's never had more than
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three sessions coaching in a rep tournament.
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Well, there you go. So what do you do?
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Do you get them on the piss? Do you get
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them on the piss? You can do that, yeah. But also, look,
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you're coaching rep players, right? So you need to... be
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very clear about what you want to get over so
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you can't coach them too much. So I have a
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philosophy with the coaches that I mentor. If you want
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to be mentored, rugbyleaguecoach.com.au forward slash coach mentor. There's another plug.
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I'm putting plugs in everywhere today. But to the coaches
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that I mentor, I say, if you can't coach everything
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you want to in eight sessions, four weeks, you're coaching
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your players too much. right so if you apply that
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to rep football in theory you've got the best players
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so in theory they should have all the skills that
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they need they should have the decision making skills that
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they need they just need a basic structure and they
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should be fit enough so on and so forth so
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i think it can be a blessing as much as
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it is a curse that was that was the story
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look it's It's a different kettle of fish, the World
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Cup at the end. I remember the World Cups have
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been out, the amount of stories we heard about England
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having 1,000 sessions and it being really intense, while the
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teams I were with were sometimes having a session for
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40 minutes and just enjoying everything Australia or England had
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to offer. And apparently that pervades with the Australian players too.
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The Australian players... quite often think they get coached too
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hard at that time of the year and Mal Meninger
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is Mal Meninger is somebody who really understood that and
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really and when I was with the Clive Churchill winner
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today James Tedesco at the last World Cup I was
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sat with him I said how was your thing he
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said we're so relaxed that you know it's not intense
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at all and he was actually a bit worried about
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the outcome but it was perfect they blitzed the World
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Cup final so Yeah, I mean.
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It's horses for courses.
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And I remember in 2017, Wayne Bennett did some ridiculous
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army boot camp in Perth. And the England players were
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all saying it was the hardest thing they'd ever done.
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But then they got to the World Cup final and
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they almost beat Australia. But then you would think, Exactly that.
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As you said, it's been such a long, hard club
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season that you don't want to be flogged. You just
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probably want that connection, don't you, to build relationships.
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Wayne Bennett apparently does his army camp things as much
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to find out about his people rather than... Under pressure, yeah,
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than actual fitness. Yeah.
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Which I get that, but.
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You're back with Lee now on the podcast you tuned into.
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That was a brief answer... to set me up for
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what I'm going to be talking about in this podcast.
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And it might even go over to a second podcast,
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a part two of it next week, because we're in
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rep time now. And the big misconception is that you
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have to coach all these things. And there's a worry
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that you've got only four sessions or three sessions. That
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should be all you need. To back that up, what
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I'm going to do soon is take you through that
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process step by step. And I'm going to use one
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of the best examples of it, which was with Poland,
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with the emerging nations rugby league world championships in 2018.
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And I'm going to go into deep, deep, deep territory
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around that. I'm literally going to give you the blueprint.
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Okay.
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It's a blueprint that I've practiced for years and it's
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succeeded for years. That comes a bit later. I was
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listening to a podcast last week from the UK. I'll
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credit it here now. It's the All Out Rugby League podcast.
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They interviewed Kevin Brown, James Robey and Johnny Lomax. Johnny
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Lomax I used to coach. I have coached James Robey
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in a rep game and Kevin Brown I know personally.
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And they were talking about their time under Wayne Bennett
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when he was the England coach. So I thought I'd
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share some of these insights. Wayne Bennett tends to float
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around the group in things like the canteen, the restaurant,
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the bus. He'll sit at the back of the bus,
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middle of the bus, moves around tables, etc. So he's
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all about building rapport with players. And that is something
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that comes through all the time when past players talk
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about him in particular, about what a great man-manager he is.
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These players, these three English players were saying how whenever
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they played, and bear in mind, England as a rugby
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league country haven't won the ashes for 50-something years now.
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haven't won the World Cup since 1972, haven't won the
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Rugby League Ashes since 1970. And the record is abysmal.
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And it's got even worse in the last 20, 30 years.
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20 years this year since Great Britain or England beat
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Australia in a game. And Wayne Bennett managed to get
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these players to believe that any given day they were
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going to win. And that includes two games against Australia.
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You may remember under Wayne Bennett, the final was lost
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4-2 to Australia at Suncorp Stadium. And in theory, England
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were an ankle tap away from one of their wings
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who broke down the right from memory and was ankle
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tapped by, I think, Josh Dugan. That was a 2017
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World Cup. So it was no small accomplishment to get
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these players to think that they were going to win
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on any given day. The players talked about how he
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protects his players, takes responsibility for in press conferences and
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things like that. Also, behind closed doors encourages players for
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them to take responsibility. They spoke about how he's a
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very direct and honest coach. And this is a key
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thing now, how he simplified an awful lot of stuff.
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And that was the big message the players were talking about.
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and they were coached in a manner that was very
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simple for them to understand. I'll be talking more about
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the simplicity thing and giving you some other examples a
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little bit later. They spoke about how Wayne Bennett often
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coached them in scenarios, in training, you're in this game situation,
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how are you going to deal with it over the
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next five minutes, right? talked about how he gave nothing
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to the outside world, so nothing to the press, squashed
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all the pressure. So whatever pressure the press tried to
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put on the players, he just squashed it immediately, gave
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them nothing. He wanted the players to have fun in
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each other's company and encourage them to go out for
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a beer. Every player said it was the best World
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Cup or best tour that they'd ever been on. These
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players said how he's people first, but he's very tough fitness-wise.
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We'll talk a bit more about the fitness thing soon.
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In terms of cliques and divides, he encouraged the players
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that if they get along off the field that they'll
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play better, so he addressed it. In team meetings, what
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he eventually said when he got with the players was
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he showed them a picture of the moon. and said
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that's what we're aiming for. And the players sort of
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said that originally they were laughing at that, but they
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realised what it meant eventually. It's funny, Thomas Tuchel, the
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England coach, who's just gotten England to their best World
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Cup return overseas in history, and their second best in
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history full stop, did something very similar. He kept talking
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about the second star on the shirt. You get a
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star on your shirt when you win a World Cup.
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So England have got one because they won the 1966
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World Cup and both of the coaches. So Wayne Bennett
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with the moon and Tuchel with the second star, we
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are going there. That's our aim. So no doubt, no
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fluffing around. It was, we're going to talk about what
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our goal is and we're working back from there. And
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they say his best trait was managing the group. And
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that he had a mantra of live above the line.
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And what that meant was do things together. So some
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of the examples were, if somebody was sat alone at
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the breakfast table, sit with them. If one coach was
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picking up cones, help them to pick up cones. Anything,
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you know, you can imagine the scenarios, can't you? Nobody
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does anything alone. The player said how you were encouraged
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to be yourself, but tone it down a little and
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always put the team first. So, you know, be as
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outlandish as you want, but just make sure it's not
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over the line. We talked about living beyond the line,
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but not in that regard. they talked about Wayne Bennett's
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up and out defensive system. Funnily enough, that's something I
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am a big believer in, up and out defense. I've
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always coached up and out defense. And basically, if I've
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got a bigger team, I just make them stand a
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little bit wider. Up and out is compressed. Up and out, slide.
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Up and in the opposite, if you want more information
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on that, get in touch. Also, if you're on rugbyleaguecoach.com.au,
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it's fully explained. He said the players were focused on
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the next process all the time. They had a job
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and they always focused on it. And such was the
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detail that Wayne Bennett provided. There was one great tale
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of Billy Slater and his propensity to go on the
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outside shoulder of defenders against Wayne Bennett's team. And Wayne
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Bennett knew that. because he knew that Billy Slater knew
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Wayne Bennett's system. So he told Brown to go in
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and smash him early. And to summarise Wayne Bennett's game plan,
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it was kick long, belt them, get the ball back
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and score. He went into depth and worked out who
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delivered what type of message in games. So for example,
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somebody like James Graham, might be quite fiery in the
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messages that he gives. There might be a few expletives
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he gives in the middle of the battle. But then
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there'd be other players, somebody like a James Robey, who
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was a bit more sensible in their instruction. And they
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worked out who was who and encouraged them to use
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those messages so that the fire of James Graham was
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watered down by Robey, etc., And they spoke about how
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all the games were that tough because they played them tough,
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so the opposition played tough too. And when bad things happened,
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they had no time to be disappointed because the game
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was a tough game, so you just move on. I
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thought these were great nuggets to put on this podcast.
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And the big thing I want to talk about right
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now is about simplicity. Somebody sent me a message last
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week and I'll be honest to you, I think he
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was probably shocked about how simple my reply was. I
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won't name him, but I know him personally, so he
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messaged me on my Facebook page. So, as you know,
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sometimes I pull things from other sports and I'll tell
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you one thing I'm not is a Manchester United fan.
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Roy Keane played for Manchester United He won seven Premier
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League titles, four FA Cups and the away for Champions
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League with them. He signed for Celtic, where he won
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the Scottish Premier League and Scottish League Cup before retiring
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in 2006. And he played 67 times for Republic of
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Ireland and was captain for much of that. And this
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is in the era when they actually made World Cups. Indeed,
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in 1994, they beat the eventual runners-up of that tournament,
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Italy 1-0 in that tournament.
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So.
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We're talking about a really good footballer. He said, quote,
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I loved the simple messages Brian Clough gave me. To
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be fair, Alex Ferguson was the same. I don't ever
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remember having a conversation or being given an instruction by
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Clough or Ferguson and being confused by them. It was
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very straightforward about my own game. The way they looked
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after me, the way they managed me, And when you
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are a young player, you don't want too many instructions. Now, unquote.
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So I always say on this podcast, keep it simple.
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Keep it simple, stupid. Kiss principle, right? You've got one coach,
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Wayne Bennett, who does things very simply. I've just literally
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just outlined so much there. And the two coaches that
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Roy Keane referred to are the two coaches that are
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on top of my bookshelf. That's my main bookshelf. So my,
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how many bookshelves have I got? Five, I think. On
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the top shelf of the main one, it's these two coaches.
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I would say, if you walked into my house and
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looked at the bookshelf, you'd see, they'd stick out to you.
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Brian Clough and Sir Alex Ferguson Sir Alex Ferguson was
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the United coach for 20 odd years like I say
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I don't I'm not a United fan but to me
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he's the best that's ever lived and they're probably the
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two biggest influences on me as a coach because I've
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read so much about them and their football manager soccer
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so you might be thinking what can a rugby league
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coach learn from two football coaches well quite a lot
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is the answer as I've said so much on this
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podcast before, I believe in a fluid type of rugby league.
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I don't believe it is a robotic game. I think
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you should look up and play. I've just done a
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big development program. Uh, 25,000 words, maybe, uh, for a
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state league side and it's been based around soccer academies
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big soccer academies in the world of sports And when
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you strip away the different sports, the fundamental job is
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remarkably similar because you're trying to develop people and teams
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and standards to believe in something bigger than themselves and
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to perform under pressure. But in terms of the actual game,
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you're trying to find space, aren't you? Really? Really? And
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Alex Ferguson and Brian Clough did this exceptionally well, but
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in different ways. So we'll start with Brian Clough. If
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you don't know much about him, his achievements are extraordinary.
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He took Derby County from the bottom of the second
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tier to the English First Division and the English title,
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I think within two years or three years of starting
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the job. And then he did the same with another club,
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Nottingham Forest. They won promotion and then won the English
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title in his first season, straight back in the first tier. Unbelievable.
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That's like somebody coming from the second, you know, the
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championship in, that's like somebody coming from the Queensland Cup
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and winning in the NRL next year. So it's like
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Redcliffe Dolphins winning the NRL next year as a reserve
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great side. And if you know your English football, soccer,
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it's like coming from the championship. So somebody like, I
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don't know, Blackburn Rovers. And then it gets ridiculous. They
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won two European Cups. So not only that, They won
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back-to-back European Cups. So the whole of Europe, every single
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league in Europe, they won two of them. And then
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he also won four of the Cups domestically and another
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European Super Cup. So we're talking about a coach who
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took what necessarily or weren't necessarily the biggest or richest
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clubs in England, nowhere near, in fact.
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And turn them into champions of England and then champions
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of Europe. He didn't need to coach at the biggest
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club to have enormous influence. He created belief. He had
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an incredibly strong personality. He was demanding. He was confident
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in his philosophy. And he definitely wasn't interested in making
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his coaching complicated. He was famous for being direct. Clough
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understood people he knew how to make his players believe
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they were better than they thought they were and he
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created a strong environment around them with clarity standards accountability
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and he wanted his players to play football rather than
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simply follow instructions he wanted them to believe in their
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own ability And he wasn't obsessed with making the game complicated.
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He believed in good players, good habits, good football and
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good relationships. And too many coaches fall into the trap
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of believing that more information equals better coaching. And I've
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said to you so much over the last few weeks,
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study about how you coach as much as anything else,
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how you deliver and how you pull your team together.
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It's not always more drills, more terminology or more systems,
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more detail, more technology, more analysis. The best coaching is
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about being clear and then getting people to believe in it.
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Sir Alex Ferguson, if Clough was the master of creating
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belief and personality Ferguson was probably the master of building
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and rebuilding organisations 26 years he was at Manchester United
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he won 13 Premier League titles 5 FA Cups 4
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League Cups which is the other cup domestic and 2
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European titles before he got to Manchester United and not
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many people know this he'd already taken a Scottish side
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Aberdeen to three Scottish league titles. So that's like, that's
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literally like Parramatta winning three now, right? He also coached
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them to four Scottish cups and they won another, they
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won a European cup there too. And they beat a
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team called Real Madrid in the final. Have you ever
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heard about them? So he didn't just inherit success. He
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created it. recreated it and recreated it again. He got
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new teams. Players came and went. Generations changed. The game changed.
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The competition changed. People changed. Society changed. But Ferguson kept adapting.
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He rebuilt Manchester United several times during his 26 years.
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And even if you're coaching the same team from under-6s
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to 15s, You can't coach them like they're under sixes
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for 11 years, nine years, whatever it is. Your players change,
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so you've got to change. Their personalities, strengths change. The
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competition will change, the environment will change, so you have
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to evolve. And Ferguson Lightclough was great at creating standards.
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understood that culture isn't something you write on a wall. Rather,
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it's something you reinforce every day. And yes, it could
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be really tough, incredibly tough, actually. But he understood relationships,
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knew when to challenge players, when to support them, when
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the player needed confidence, when somebody needed to be hair-dried,
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as the press used to call it. but he was
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also fantastic at developing young players. You'll have heard of
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David Beckham. And he brought a group of players through
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with David Beckham as juniors. So he's willing to invest
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in development as well, rather than always going out to recruit.
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Development is not separate from winning. It's one of the
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ways that you build sustainable success. So why are these
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two coaches big to me? Well, they're different. Number one, Clough,
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incredibly charismatic, direct, provocative, got in trouble all the time.
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Ferguson was just brilliant. But both had some common principles.
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Number one, Clarity, they knew what they wanted. Number two, standards.
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Players knew what was expected. Number three, belief. They convinced
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people that they could achieve things that perhaps seemed unlikely
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to so many of them previously. Number four, they understood relationships.
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Or Ferguson understood relationships and not just about tactics and drills.
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Then number five, and finally, adaptability. neither stayed successful by
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simply repeating what they'd always done. They evolved, and that's
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probably the biggest lesson to take away from both of them.
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As coaches, you're sometimes too interested in finding the perfect drill,
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aren't you? Do your players know what you're trying to achieve?
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Do they understand why? Do they believe in it? Do
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they know what's expected of them? And have you created
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an environment where they can actually develop? And that's what
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I see when I read those two books on my shelf. Sorry,
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about those two people on my bookshelf. Coaching is about people.
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And that's probably why they had so much influence on me.
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To that end, I want to take you to a
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couple of the questions I got, and then we'll talk
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about some of the things that we're going to go
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into detail. Cause I'll be honest. I think we're going
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to go into a second episode on the, on the detail. Um,
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before I go into all that though, have you seen
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that coaches at clubs can now get rugby league coach
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access for all their club for a ridiculously cheap price
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for a limited time so for a club to pay
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it will be ridiculous and what's definitely on the table,
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is that the first 10 to get in touch will
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get the absolute cheapest price. The next 10 in touch
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will get the second cheapest price. And the next 10
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will get the third cheapest price. Let me tell you
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that price now. The first 10 in contact can get
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all your club access to rugby league coaching so more
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coaching resources and more coaching help than they'll ever need
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for $ 1, 195 for one year that's for every coach in
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your club that's a small investment for a club isn't
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it the next 10 $ 1, 495 same deal and then the
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next 10 after that $ 2, 000 And if the phone stops, sorry,
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doesn't stop ringing off the hook, I'll extend it. If
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you need to go and talk to your committee or something.
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So one of the reasons this doesn't go straight away
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is that we'll have to wait for some committee meetings.
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Also right now, it's very much the off-season and so
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many committees are not doing anything at their clubs. If
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you're an individual coach, go and look at rugbyleaguecoach.com.au shop
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and have a look at all the different options there
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because they're not going to be any cheaper than they
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are now. So it's definitely the right time to do it.
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The other thing is the coach mentor program, okay? And
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that is the most detailed thing I can offer you.
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So go to rugbyleaguecoach.com.au forward slash coach mentor.
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First question.
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Hey, Lee, thanks again for the resources that I've just
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been talking about and sessions this year. I did a
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couple of seminars with his club. I had the under 12s.
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It helped keep training interesting and fun with games focused
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on the skills. I found the kids really developed and
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all started thinking for themselves in the situation and on
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the field. I feel very lucky. We have a great
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group of kids and parents and I had some great
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results and went through a recent competition undefeated. Not that
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under 12s keep score apparently, but the kids know the
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exact score every time. Of course they do. That's another issue, mate.
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And this person said, I'm reaching out to get any
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tips you have. for leading the team into international rules
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next year, under 13s, anything you'd focus on, particularly with
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the change into genuinely competitive and international rules. They do
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focus on scores, kids. You're right, mate. So that will
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now become even more profound. Try and get them to
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forget about scoreboard pressure. Number two, the big change with
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the international rules is the bib thing, right? There's some
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historical podcasts on this, but basically with the bibs, you
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have to have somebody at dummy half who then passes
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to somebody at first receiver, and then there's some variety
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on that and everything else. What that teaches dummy halves
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to do is to pass, and you'll notice we have
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an outbreak of, dummy halves who don't run that much
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and you really want them to run so you need
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to start talking to your dummy half about what things
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to look for at the marker area so that they
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can run if they've got that ability number two the
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players get into a habit of just passing the ball
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to the first receiver who then just passes the ball
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You're going to have to get into your halves and
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teach them not to touch the ball every play. You've
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got to go forward before you go sideways. And I'm
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not saying do three in and then go sideways. I'm
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saying rook recognition. We go forward. The rook gets impacted.
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Do the defense get back in time before you play
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the ball? You know what go forward looks like. Don't
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go sideways. Don't go to your first receiver until you've
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gone forward. Teach your players that. The question I mentioned
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earlier about the simplicity. All right, Lee, how are you?
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Currently coaching an under-12 side, and whatever do, they just
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won't move in. In defense, what drills would you suggest
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to make this better? So this is the thing I
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was saying about don't focus on drills. to make your
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coaching better. Sometimes you, you all probably know the drills.
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It's about how you do them, how you conduct them,
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how you progress your session, how you progress that drill,
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how you progress the game that you're coaching. If you
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just do simple mapping, you probably call it. I call
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them rhythm runs. And you say, right, go back five meters,
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get up five meters, six times. It's pretty simple to me. Right,
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we're going to do three perfect ones, three times six perfectly.
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And we're not leaving here, we're not touching the ball
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until you've done three sets of six perfectly. And you
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get each player to focus on the person on the
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left and the person on the right. Nobody has to
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look down the whole line. And then they'll start moving up.
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Technically as well, you need to just get them into
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the habit of when they run backwards... Instead of backpedaling,
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they turn like a cricketer would at the crease and
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then explode back. So I've done loads of rep coaching, right?
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And one mentor in England before I left actually believed
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this was my best trait, rep coaching. Since I've done
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rep jobs in Australia, I don't know a short-term rep
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job that's failed really overall. I've done loads of them.
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So England students, England amateurs, won grand finals, lost grand finals,
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won most. Regional camps, national camps in the UK, over here,
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school rep sides, Ipswich diggers, men's. And obviously the one
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that I'm going to go into detail about is Poland.
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And I actually happen to be a test coach that's
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coached in six test matches and won all six. When
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you're coaching rep football, you have to be really focused
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on being as clear and concise as you can. So
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I always talk about every session or most sessions, including
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three things, core skill, practice, unit practice, so a small group,
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so between two and five people, your left side, your
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right side, your middles, etc., team practice or core unit
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and team put it this way if you've got three
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or four sessions you can't hammer core skill all the
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time you've got to do a little bit and then
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you've got to thread it through the other stuff wherever
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you can okay and i want you to know this
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before i go into detail about the training and what
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you can do right now and in 2018 this was
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quite out there is you can do things online and
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you can give content online. I am literally going to
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go through how I did that in 2018 with the
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story of Poland in 2018 in more detail than I've
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ever told it. And there's actually a page on the
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rugby league coach website dedicated to what happened then or
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everything I'm reading now is coming from there on all
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the audio that you get is from videos on there
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okay because we did it all through this page there
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were training plans there was videos of tactics diagrams of
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tactics there was diet plans fitness plans weight training plans
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we also did player messages okay and i also did
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messages directly to players So here's some of the key
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messages I gave to the players. You'll know these are
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historical because I sound younger and the microphone isn't there.
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So listen to these messages. Boys in the Poland squad,
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I'm Lee Addison, your head coach for the forthcoming Emerging
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Nations World Cup. Congratulations on being at least in the
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train-on squad and hopefully you're part of that final squad
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when we get to the tournament. To give yourself the
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best chance of doing that, what we've got on this website,
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is plans for you to follow. We're going to separate
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them into different types of program depending on the level
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you've played at this year and how much you've trained
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or played depending on injury or whatever.
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I need you to be honest.
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So the only person who knows exactly what you've done
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this year is you. And if you want to be
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seen on the world stage, because these games are getting
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live streamed, there's a rumor that SBS might be covering them.
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If you want to be exposed to as many people
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in the world as possible, get yourself in real good
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nick for this tournament and get yourself.
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Ready to play your best football. I'll give you an example.
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I was with the Americans in 2013 and Mark Offerdahl,
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who had been around the traps for quite a few.
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Years playing some lower league stuff. He had a great
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World Cup.
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He came in great condition for the USA and he's
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had professional contracts since then. So it is great exposure
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for you boys. let's make the best of it it's 6, 7,
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8 weeks of our lives let's go, let's give it
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everything I would imagine that a lot of you qualify
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for Poland through grandparents I know my grandad was Polish
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and he was a prisoner of war and I've heard
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so many different stories already of people who've got Polish
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parents or grandparents who suffered during World War II let's
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look at it this way whatever we have to put
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ourselves through over the next few weeks will be nothing
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compared to what our grandparents or parents have gone through
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to get us here, to have this opportunity.
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So let's give it everything, boys.
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In a few weeks' time, you've got an opportunity that
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could change your life forever.
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And when you sit back in 20.
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30, 40 years and you're talking to your kids, your
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grandkids and anyone else who'll listen to you, you.
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Want to have something proud to tell them. You want
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to have something to be remembered by.
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And the Poland players and anybody who's watching this on rugbyleaguecoach.com.au
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you've got a few.
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Weeks now where you can really change your life.
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You can do that by working hard. You can do
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that by following fitness programs. You can do that by
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making sure you're sleeping correctly. You can do that by
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making sure you're hydrating properly and you're eating properly and all.
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That kind of thing.
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Sounds tiresome, I know. It's all that same old message.
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But the reality is, that's what you need to get there.
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So my message to the Poland players and to anybody
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watching this on rugbyleaguecoach.com.au is If you've got an opportunity
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in the next few weeks, grab it. A lot of
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the players watching this will have Malmeninger, Cyril Connell trials,
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SG Ball, Harold Matthews trials, all that kind of thing
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in Australia. They'll be preparing for international opportunities around the world.
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If this is your opportunity, grab it. There will be
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no tomorrow. You've got to take advantage of it today.
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Find your motivation. Get out there.
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Train.
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Do the right things.
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One of the big themes of RugbyLeagueCoach.com.au is that champions
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are made when nobody is watching.
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I'm going to give you some statistics now that will
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sort of outline that for you.
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There's 24 hours in a day and 168 hours in
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a week. When you look at it like that, roughly
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about 83 to 93 hours of that goes to football, training, sleep,
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school or work. And obviously if you work more hours,
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even more goes to goes to work, but school, looking
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at roughly an 8.30 till 3 o'clock day, it makes
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up about 83.
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Hours of the week.
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That means you've got roughly about another 85 hours, it's
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basically about 50.1% of your week. And, you know, that
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50% is the difference between the footballers that go far
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in the game and the ones that don't.
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Just think about what you can do in that 50%
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of your time.
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It's the food that you eat. It's the water or
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not water that you drink. It's the lifestyle choices that
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you make. The stretching, the prehab, the injury recovery processes
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you go through.
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It's a real massive chunk.
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When I space that out like that for my players,
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it gives them a real shock because they then realise
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how much they can do in their own life despite
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the fact that so much of it is taken up
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by things like work or school, or by other commitments,
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there's still so much of their own life that they
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can control. About 50% of your life, you've not got
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a coach, a teacher, or sometimes even a parent looking
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at you if you're a kid, or anybody else watching
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you if you're older. So what you do with that
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time will make the difference to you, the potential footballer.
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One call I use off of my teams is next action.
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What that means is to focus on the next thing
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rather than something that's just happened.
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I'm going to give you an example from cricket.
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How many times have you seen a batsman reach about
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100 and he's been fantastic in his concentration, very careful
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with his shots, and then once he or she reaches
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that 100 mark, they throw all caution to the wind,
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take a risky shot and often get.
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Out between 100 and 110.
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That's probably because they've put all their effort into into
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making the 100 and then as soon as they got
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to the 100 they sort of allow the pressure to
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come off themselves and they either do one or two
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things they either go on great to score even more
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runs or they collapse quite easily taking that into our
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sport of rugby and rugby league during the course of
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a game you might hit up the ball 10 times
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you might do 20 tackles during that time you might
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drop a ball during that time you might miss a
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tackle or make a bad pass but the fact of
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the matter is that as long as you concentrate on
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the next action and you don't dwell on the last
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one then that will help benefit your performance because you
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literally compartmentalise everything that happens in the game recently I've
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heard an example of James Maloney and they were talking
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about him in Origin and for Penrith how he can
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do some bad things and it's almost like.
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It just doesn't affect.
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Him in any way shape or form it just literally
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concentrates on his next action next action also counts if
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you If you do something successful, so a team might
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score a try, you might do a good run or
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do a great tackle or something like that. If you
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dwell on that and think, oh, this is going to
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be my day because I've made a great tackle or
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scored a great try or done something well, the chances
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are you won't be concentrating enough for the next time
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you are faced with the opportunity of doing something.
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So next action, focus on it.
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Apply it to every section of your life if you
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can so if you have a good training day one
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day focus on your next action making sure your next
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one's even better if you're in a game just compartmentalize
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things whatever you do good or bad close it off
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focus on your next action so i'm setting this up
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for you for next week right so as soon as
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we get into next week we'll go straight into what
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happened after that this is just a little teaser to
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get you ready for next week's podcast. Out as normal,
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Monday morning. I love your work. Thank you.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Thank you.