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All Blacks in Pursuit of Ongoing Excellence
What motivates this All Black team to unparalleled success? Records or the pursuit of excellence? Leading rugby wri...
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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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English Premiership – Predicting Future Performance
Ex Wallaby and Gainline Analytics founder Ben Darwin has ‘done the numbers’ on what creates team success. Ben highli...
Tackling
Chopping them down to size
The chop or cut tackle remains one of the most effective defensive devices, particularly against heavy ball-carries c...
TRS Español
Planes de sesión TRS
El Director de contenido de TRS, Ben Herring, ha desarrollado una serie de planes de sesión que hará mucho más sencil...
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Coaches get the boot. It’s a fact of life.
A team fails and the coach gets fired – an unfortunate reality of professional sporting team life. Leading writer, Gr...
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Offloading from kick receipts
The success at the top level can often be measured by player’s capacity to offload in contact, accurately and under c...
Session Plans
TRS Session Plans
TRS Rugby Content Manager Ben Herring has developed a series of session plans to make your coaching role that much ea...
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From Preparation to Execution
Expert analyst Nick Bishop explains how The Professor – Wayne Smith’s modules translate from the training ground to o...
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Olympics makes lasting impression
Leading writer Graham Jenkins looks at the effect of Rio’s Olympics Rugby 7s competitions, the highlights and opportu...
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Is Joe Moody's All Black's long term replacement for Tony Woodcock
Our rugby analyst Nick Bishop, takes an indepth look at Joe Moody’s recent loosehead scrummaging performance for the ...
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How to put the super back into Super Rugby?
How successful has this year’s expanded super competition been? Graham Jenkins reflects on the merits of its expansio...
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Chiefs Support Play
Nick’s latest article on Support Play and it’s processes follows Wayne Smiths coaching module.
