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Month: May 2017

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People don’t take trips, trips take people

30/05/20175 commentsBritish and Irish Lions, jet lag, Lions, preparation, protocols, sleep and water, time zonessleepandwater

You don’t send him a Christmas card but ‘jet lag’ has become a close colleague of mine and International Sevens over the years. Its power is in its constellation of symptoms. You can’t take one tablet (not yet anyway) to…

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Singalongs, angry mums, and zero banter: the fascinating secrets to Fiji’s 7s success

20/05/2017No Commentsaccountable, keeping things simple, key messages, lotu, visual learningsleepandwater

The game-changing methods he used to build a world-beating team. To discipline a 16 stone rugby player, have a word with their mum When I arrived in Fiji (in 2013) after coaching the England sevens team, I spent the first…

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The lamp post and the bus

08/05/201710 commentssleepandwater

This time last year I was bringing a couple more players in to the squad in consideration for the Olympics. I’d been having conversations for a while, in some cases for almost two years, so that I could get them…

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Contrasts and equilibrium

05/05/2017No Commentscontrast, istanbul, kindness, Percy Ceruttysleepandwater

I was in Istanbul this week. The Bosporous dividing the city but also the continents of Asia and Europe. Old with new and beautiful contrast everywhere you go. The legendary Runner Herb Elliott had a coach called Percy Cerutty that…

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