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GrassSpoofs rugby coach

@grasspootsrugby

Tales from the ever-suffering, unqualified, volunteer that is the youth rugby coach #HESONHISOWN

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calendar_today15-10-2022 00:25:20

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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 🤪

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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

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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

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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

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

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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?!

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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”

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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?”

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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?

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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!

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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