News & Opinions
Innovate or die? Rugby's continued quest to stay relevant.
The pressure on English rugby, and the game in general, to adapt and ensure the long-term success of the sport is evi...
Insight & analysis
Articles
Deep dives on the modern game from The Rugby Site's contributors and coaches.
Attack
Attack, Attack and More Attack
The notion of the contest is becoming more difficult for the defensive side to manage in all areas of the game. Nick Bishop explores how ...
Defence
How the repeat involvement theory is stacking up for number 9’s
The use of the “spare man” in the backline has been debated since the dawn of the professional era. Using France’s current defensive syst...
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Tackling
Is it time for Ardie Savea to start for the All Blacks?
Will the All Black selectors follow Wales coach Warren Gatland’s very successful approach and field 2 No 7s in the lo...
Set Piece
How to mix backs and forwards at the set-piece!
Backs can help the forwards in the tasks that used to belong solely to the pack – but only if they understand what th...
Coaches Corner
Coaches should embrace ‘half game rule’ challenge
From the start of next season, all match day squad players at every level of youth, junior and minis rugby, from ages...
Attack
How to find mismatches against the single-line defence
Arguably the biggest change in Rugby’s professional era occurred when the game started to import defensive coaches fr...
News & Opinions
Is it time the Six Nations packed down behind the Nations Championship concept?
World Rugby’s plan for a ground-breaking annual Nations Championship uniting both hemispheres appeared to have little...
Leadership & Management
How Warren Gatland won the preparation war in Cardiff
Warren Gatland’s knowledge of the game in the UK and Ireland is anything but one-sided. He has coached in Ireland, W...
News & Opinions
Super Rugby 2019 Performance Preview
The Gainline Analytics team have taken their Cohesion and TWI markers to the Super Rugby competition starting this we...
Defence
How to play the ‘libero’ like Faf de Klerk
The ‘libero’ is an evocative term in the Soccer vocabulary. It describes the free role played from a defensive positi...
News & Opinions
The Hidden Side of the 6 Nations
Our friends at Gainline Analytics have had close look at the prospects of this year’s 6 nations tournament. It has b...
Coaches Corner
Are 'foracks' the future?
Last week Eddie Jones introduced the possibility of in the future backs playing the in the forwards. Writer Graham Je...
Coaches Corner
What attention to detail at the cleanout really means
Ireland’s Joe Schmidt already coaches with the same values as his All Black counterparts, Sir Graham Henry and Steve ...
