Thursday 23 October 2008

What makes a good coach of junior players?

We were talking about this last night as we watched training.

Is it necessary to have been a good player to be a good coach? Can you become a good coach merely by taking coaching courses? And of course, is coaching just about playing rugby or should we be teaching the players more than that?

Over to you.

3 comments:

Tractor b0y said...

Respect for players and ability to learn from your players and other coaches, if you have these qualities it's not really necessary to have ever played rugby before as long as you know the principles.

kronje_72 said...

Commitment to continuous improvement of yourself aswell as your players.

winstanley said...

Interesting that you both think coaches should be learning. Talking to many coaches you get the idea that they don't feel this way.Not our coaches, but there are some like that in the club.