Think rugby : a guide to purposeful team play /

Think rugby : a guide to purposeful team play /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Greenwood, Jim, 1928-2010, author.
Edition:Fifth edition.
Imprint:London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Rugby classics
Subject:
Rugby football.
Rugby football -- Training.
Rugby football.
Rugby football -- Training.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13511255
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ISBN:9781472918765
1472918762
9781472918758
1472918754
9781472918741
1472918746
Notes:Previous edition: London: A. & C. Black, 2004.
Print version record.
Summary:Think Rugby and Total Rugby are rugby classics - two of the most important and influential books ever written on the game of rugby. Thousands of players and coaches around the globe have benefited from the concepts and methods in these books, equipping them with the coaching skills and strategy to play the very best in fifteen-a-side rugby. Think Rugby is a systems book that gets both coach and player working more productively: - the coach, through a wealth of practical advice on keeping sessions fresh and purposeful - the player, through tried and tested methods of improving tactical decisio.
Other form:Print version: Greenwood, Jim, 1928-2010. Think rugby. Fifth edition 9781472918741
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART 1 HOW TO THINK RUGBY; 1 Developing a system; Spotting the opportunity; Developing a system (i); Developing a system (ii); Step 1: Adopt a model; Step 2: Refine our response to feedback; Step 3: Clarifying our expectations; Step 4: Check your expectations in order of probability; Step 5: Choice of action; The coach and the player; Technical applications; PART 2 THE BASIS OF TEAM PERFORMANCE; 2 Strategy and tactics; Strategy; Tactics; Sub-strategies; Purposeful back play; Central decision-making.
  • PART 3 INTEGRATED TACTICAL DEVELOPMENT3 Making good choices; Judgement in applying individual technique; Judgement in combined play; Getting better judgement at the breakdown; 4 Improving tactical decisions; Risk-taking and the TDM; Establishing a procedure; Modelling the process; Time limits; Raising the attention level; Stress control mechanisms; 5 Eight steps to tactical efficiency; 1. Establish each basic start within the unit; 2. Assign starts to situations; 3. Unit rhythms or sequences; 4. The moving finger; 5. Unopposed and semi-opposed rugby; 6. Conditioned unit unopposed.
  • 7. Opposed situations8. Three-minute rugby; 6 Preparing the TDM; The coach and selection; Functions of the captain; 'Specific tactical talent; Exploiting your opponents' expectations; Getting and using information; PART 4 THE QUEST FOR SPACE; 7 The value of space; Space on the pitch; Space at the back; Examining space at a tactical point; The coach and timing at a tactical point; 8 Defining the run; Space, time and the player; Establishing criteria of success; Putting the principles into practice; Advantage rugby
  • consistent creation of space; PART 5 BUILDING AN ENTERPRISING REPERTOIRE.
  • 9 Developing fresh ideasCreating an enterprising attack; Trying something new; Developing a start; 10 Enterprising back play; Attack in Channel One; Attack in Channel Two; Attack in Channel Three; 11 Enterprising forward play; Attack in the forwards at tactical points; Tactical decision-making for the back-row attack; (i) Scrum under pressure; (ii) Wheeled scrum; (iii) Non-wheeled scrum; (iv) Where space is available; (v) Where very limited space is available; (vi) On their line; Preparing a co-ordinated attack; The peel from the line-out.
  • The forwards feed the backs and the backs feed the forwardsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W.

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