Man Management I remember reading a very famous coach saying that players can’t be your friends because sooner or later you have to deliver bad news to them. My instinctive thought was that if I ever get bad news, I’d…
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle. Lewis Carroll Yesterday I was lucky enough to go to Wimbledon to watch the tennis. Me and Wimbledon have history I was born in Wimbledon and I went to…
The British and Irish Lions tour just keeps on giving. So many interesting topics that keep popping up to chat about and the latest is around putting a team together quickly. Gelling. Is it really that difficult? For me, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
