Announcing the Rugbyology Coach Network

It has been a few weeks since my last email.

That is mostly because I have been working behind the scenes on a few Rugbyology updates, including the website, some new coach education workshops, and a new part of the Rugbyology ecosystem.

Content Improvement

After quite a number of requests, we're finally able to publish all written content in an audio format as well. This will make it much more accessible and tolerable, particularly when we're looking at some of the more long-winded 6,000 word pieces that are published.

All future written content will be available in audio format as well as on a separate podcast feed if that is how you would rather receive content. Details will be published in the next written post update.

I've also made some improvements to the video production abilities, so that moving forward more video examples can be included both as standalone content and within written pieces.

Website Content

Since moving to a new website host early in the year, a number of pieces and pages on the site were left as stock templates. This has now been updated, particularly in the coach education and consulting pages.

New Workshops

Over the last few weeks, I have been building and delivering two new Rugbyology Coach Education workshops.

The first is RACS in Practice: How to Classify, Diagnose, and Improve Rugby Activities. This will be the first practical Rugbyology workshop the does as deep dive into the Rugbyology Activity Classification Systems, built around helping coaches understand what their training activities are really doing, why some transfer better than others, and how to improve the ones they already use.

The second is The Bronco: What It Tests, What It Doesn’t, and What To Do With the Data. This workshop looks at one of rugby’s most common conditioning tests and asks a simple question: once you have the result, what should you actually do with it? Almost everyone performs the Bronco, few use it.

Both workshops have now been created and delivered in early form. Over the next few weeks, I will be turning them into online versions so they can be made available more widely.

The Rugbyology Coach Network.

Perhaps the biggest project finalised ove the past few weeks has been the Rugbyology Coach Network.

The beta version has now launched, and eligible coaches have been invited by email.

This is not intended to be a generic coaching group, a public forum, or a mass jobs board.

The Rugbyology Coach Network is the ongoing development layer of Rugbyology Coach Education.

Workshops and courses introduce coaches to the ideas.

The Network gives them somewhere to keep developing those ideas, test them against real coaching problems, and build a stronger professional identity over time.

Why it exists

Rugby has a coaching visibility problem.

The usual signals are noisy.

A coach’s title does not always show how they think.

A team’s results do not always show what the coach actually developed.

A CV does not always reveal whether a coach can design better environments, make better decisions, or understand why improvement is not happening.

And too many good coaches remain invisible because they are outside the right networks, pathways, schools, clubs, or professional circles.

The Rugbyology Coach Network is designed to help solve that problem over time.

It gives Rugbyology-trained coaches a place for continued learning, shared language, community, professional visibility, and future opportunity flow.

What the Network is for

The Network is being built around a few connected purposes:

Ongoing development
Continued education, resources, discussions, and development opportunities beyond individual workshops and courses.

Alumni community
A place for Rugbyology-trained coaches to stay connected, share ideas, and keep developing a common language around rugby improvement.

Professional visibility
A way for serious coaches to become recognised for the quality of their thinking and development, not only their job title, current role, or win-loss record.

Opportunity flow
A future pathway for relevant roles, projects, collaborations, introductions, mentoring, and connections with organisations looking for coaches who think differently.

The Network is not being built as a traditional recruitment agency.

But it is built on the belief that better coaches should be easier to find, develop, and connect.

How coaches qualify

Access to the Rugbyology Coach Network is linked to completion of eligible Rugbyology education.

That means it is not currently open to everyone.

If you have not received an invitation, you may not yet have completed a qualifying Rugbyology course, workshop, or education pathway.

(If you believe that you have not recieved an invite in error, please email the support account support [at] rugbyology.com)

Future Rugbyology Coach Education products will clearly identify whether completion qualifies coaches for Network access.

That matters because the value of the Network depends on the quality of the environment inside it.

A shared foundation creates better conversations, better feedback, better standards, and a stronger professional signal for the coaches involved.

What comes next

The Network will grow deliberately as more coaches complete eligible Rugbyology education and are invited into the alumni environment.

The aim is to build a serious development environment for coaches who want to think more clearly, design better environments, and separate real improvement from the appearance of improvement.

You can read more about the Rugbyology Coach Network here.