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| Hi, our u14's sh is very capable. has a great off the floor pass and has a great scanning rugby brain. However when it comes to bossing his big forwards and peers about, pulling them here and screaming at them there he is too backward. Any tips as to how and get the bullying no.9 out of him?
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| ... makes me wonder if you are one of the other coaches on our team!! We have the same issue with our lead 9 - technically excellent but too quiet. In a fairly easy game a few weeks ago, I took him off for the last 15 minutes, and had him watch the game with me - it's easy to forget the players don't see what we do ... it was a real eye opener for him to see forwards milling about aimlessly, in that way they do... I have also told him to watch some premiership/international games and concentrate on what the s/hs do, instead of just watching the game - a habit we've all had to learn as coaches. He's got to learn what's expected of him before he can do it. And try this - it is a bit of a laugh - at training, maybe just before a practice game, get the forwards in a group and get the no 9 to give them some commands, "simple simon" style - stand up - sit down - hands on head - etc. It is a good laugh for 5 minutes (especially as he is one of our smallest players) but there is a serious message, it gets them used to the idea of taking commands from him, and him used to giving them. Look forward to everybody else's ideas. Cheers - Ferret
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| had similar problem tell him the forwards are his puppets and they cant act without him pulling their strings or his toys to play with make him push and pull them to where they are needed in training have 5 mins where they can only do what he says bill
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| Thanks for the ideas guys - given me some great ideas. I think perhaps even something like a rucking or mauling drill, where certain forwards are told (on the quiet) to mill about until told what to do by the no.9. Or have the no. 10 always stand too flat or to close, forcing the no.9 to shout at him to realign properly. Anyway, I'm sure i can help him now.
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In one of dan's publications recently I outlined a game to aid (young) forwards' understanding of their roles in second-phase play. Cutting a long story short part of this was the scrum half SHOUTRING out the number of forwards clearing out at a ruck - prompting him/her to be gobby and for the forwards to listen to him/her.
Something along those lines maybe?
(ooo... the coach stands behind the defense with numbered cards indicating how many forwards are needed to win the ruck... SH has to note this (aids scanning?) and then direct forwards appropriately... (??????)
didds
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