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Paarl Boys High School | Inside the Program with Sean Eramus
Rugby can fill a stadium. Culture can shape a life. We sit down with Sean Erasmus, head coach at Paul Boys High School, to unpack what it takes to bu…
1 month, 1 week ago
How Ryan Martin led Northland’s Historic Ranfurly Shield Win
The Ranfurly Shield isn’t just a trophy. It’s a pressure cooker that turns every home match into a final, pulls entire towns into the story, and asks…
1 month, 1 week ago
Why Winning Teams Still Have Culture Problems | Ross Neal
If someone had to “explain” your culture to a new hire, would it fall apart the moment pressure hits? Ross Neal joins us to get brutally practical ab…
1 month, 1 week ago
Newington College GPS Champions | Inside the Program
A championship season can tempt coaches to talk only about tactics, but the real story sits in the spaces between school, sport, and growing up. We s…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why So Many Good Coaches Are Struggling | The Invisible load
You can spot a coach on the sideline in seconds. What’s harder to see is everything they carry home afterward: the player who’s struggling, the conve…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ex-Wallaby Reveals How Culture Is Really Made | Ben Darwin
“Culture” is the most overused word in sport, and we’ve both heard it used as a lazy explanation for everything from blowout losses to surprise champ…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ex-All Blacks Analyst Reveals the Danger of Statistics | Al Rodgers
You can know the “right” answer as a coach and still miss the point if your environment pushes people in the wrong direction. That’s the thread we pu…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Why Good Coaches Don't Always Pick the Good Players
The hottest debate in any team sport is selection, and we get why it drives people crazy. From the stands, it looks like a simple list of the most ta…
2 months ago
Pressure Made Me Forget Who I Was | Joey Mongalo
Pressure doesn’t usually change a coach with one big blow. It changes you slowly, one compromise at a time, until the season ends and you realize you…
2 months ago
How to Break Through as a Coach (Without a Playing Career)
A Champions Cup-winning rugby attack coach who never played professional rugby should not make sense and that’s exactly why Noel McNamara’s story mat…
2 months, 1 week ago