Have we lost our way in school sport, to a large extent I believe we have. Why? I will attempt to illustrate why.I have for many years heard this phrase, high performance, it worried me then and it still does. How can we slot a 14-year-old into a hig...
I am, if you have not noticed by my past articles, a rugby enthusiast. I have had the privilege of coaching this game at some very competitive and talented levels. I usally revel in the July rugby week which is the U18 Craven Week, named after SA rug...
In the modern day and age of immediate satisfaction we sometimes, as sports coaches, overlook our own job -- to coach. To coach means to develop, to develop means to take a specific interest in a person who is also your player and build this person's...
We have a problem in this country. Our standard of coaching is not acceptable. Why, is the question we should all be asking. When this amazing country became free and fair we opened up the opportunities by another 45 million people at the time, ...
"My qualities are not good enough for Ajax," uttered Marco van Basten, one of the best strikers to ever grace the soccer pitch when he resigned from his job less than 12 months after taking over the coaching reins at his boyhood club Ajax Amsterdam. ...
