Creating a page as a safe space for grassroots coaches in the rugby community to share their weekly struggles of being the most important volunteer in the game. Let’s have some fun 🤪

It’s a Saturday. The opportunity for any coach to watch the games on tele and make notes on amazing tactical plays which on Sunday will mean nothing when after 5 seconds of explaining you get “IS IT CONTACT?” thrown at your face

Cracking U13s school rugby this morning. Two well-drilled sides putting in what they’ve done in practice in giving every restart pass to the biggest lad. Must attend that RFU coaching CPD on ‘Utilising the puberty lad’. “You know who it’s going to, boys!” #ProperGrasspoots

Asking the players before the warm up to do their own positional skills for 10 minutes and seeing the whole forwards pack kicking to each other #ProperGrasspoots

And coaches always seem to have to act as kitmen, corner flaggers, referees, cooks, taxi drivers and recipients of all the blame.

When a parent complaint email starts with “ I don’t mean to be one of those parents, but…” they’re one of those parents.

Healey proposing a plan to ditch academies and give young players more time playing at their clubs/with their mates? What’s not to love?!

Youth rugby classic! Referee checking with each captain if they’re ready before he blows the whistle for KO. Has a captain - after a big warm up, changing room + pitch-huddle chat, and now in position to chase/receive a kick off replied- “nah give us another couple minutes, sir”

When you ask an U18s rugby team group chat if they are available for a match on the weekend…

Nothing says icing on the cake than after a week of unavailability replies for Sunday’s league game due to half term, you find out one of your remaining players is throwing a house party on the Saturday. “Can we maybe play 7s against you today, coach?”

I used to look at rugby results on a Saturday night 😉 This generation are different ❤️

Superb grubber. Anyone know his name? Will get him down for a special guest session at u13 training

Half term means other buggers get to coach my lot at rugby camps. The b*stards get paid for it, whilst all I get is a waterproof which isn’t waterproof! Think I’ll complain. Now, which complaint template to use from the million parent complaint emails Ive already got from Sunday?

The players every time one of the lads has an injury #GIVEHIMSPACE

A Ukrainian refugee joined my age group after loving it in his PE lessons… when hopefully the war ends and all the children doing rugby in there schools return to Ukraine, could we see there national team be a force to be reckoned with in 10 years?! What a story that would be!

Took a break from coaching, now back on the training pitch today! Look forward to sharing my new stories of the joys/frustration/pain/agony of coaching at grassroots rugby! #GrassSpoofsIsBack