Foreword by Sir Clive Woodward. Anxious about coaching rugby to children? Maybe you're already coaching, but sometimes struggle to get your points across to your players? Perhaps you find yourself frequently running out of preparation time or think your sessions are becoming dull? Coaching Rugby is Dan Cottrell's best-selling manual created for new and aspiring coaches of junior players. It is designed to help you build your players' techniques, skills and understanding of the whole game from ages 8 to 16, to give them the best start possible to their rugby playing career. Divided into two parts, part one focuses on the basics of working with young players in a safe and rewarding environment. Part two contains more than 100 training sessions, games and developments to coach and enhance all the basic skills of rugby union.

Crowood's Rugby Drills is a collection of 125 activities, practices and games designed to improve coaching sessions at all levels of the game. The drills are organised into chapters according to a particular skill or phase of the game, from the warm up to handling, contact, lineout, scrum, kicking and defence. Each chapter starts with a series of simple activities before progressing through to more complex ones, each broken down into step-by-step explanations and diagrams, as well as guidance on how to increase the level of difficulty.Tried and tested over a number of years, and proven to work in developing skills and teamwork with players of all abilities, many of the drills were created by the author, while some have been used by the most famous coaches in the world. All of them were designed for use without the need for specialist and/or expensive equipment. Aimed at new coaches of youth and adult rugby, as well as coaches who want to review/improve their methods, it offers lots of ideas and is superbly illustrated with 250 colour diagrams.

Essential guide to the non-contact sport of Tag Rugby - a safe and fun way of introducing rugby to under 10s.

Want to coach rugby and have fun?Want to use more realistic games in training?Touch rugby is an ideal way to teach many different skills in lots of different ways while your players enjoy the competitive nature of games.In this book I will cover all the main variations and how you can introduce into your training to:> Improve decision-making> Develop specific skills> Enhance teamship and leadership> Challenge players under pressure> Work on fitness> Enjoy playing the game.Inside you will find:How to coach with touch rugbyThe do's and don'ts of playingHow to change the rules to suit what you wantOver 20 gamesGames finder to choose the right gameWhat is game-sense?It's using games to help players learn skills under pressure in decision making situations.