You win games through scoring more points than the opposition.
The best way to score points is through tries.
You can only score tries by breaking the defensive line.
If you run hard you get through.
You can only run hard if you have confidence in the player passing the ball.
You can only have confidence in the player if you know their basic skills are precise
Basic skills need to be repeated under the increasing pressures of time and pace.
To keep building the pressure you need a focussed environment and a creative coach.
A creative coach still needs to keep the small details to the forefront of every session.
A successful coach has the big picture.
Big pictures look easy to paint.
K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple, Stupid.
And select the right players... Easy?!
Can you, to use the awful parlance of the day, tick all the boxes for your:
local team?
club team?
regional team?
national team?
Hmmm...
'Sgoddy' Johnson left Wales for Australia on the Thursday, 23 March 2006 to work as attack coach for the Wallabies. He left under something of a cloud after Ruddock-gate but no-one, absolutely no-one, should question his ability to improve the basic skills of the players he works with.
And their mental strength.
Get hold of a tape [or disk - hey, hark at me, all technohead!] of the Tri-Nations game between Oz and the Boks to see what strong, hard, smart running can do to even a mean defence. [15.07.06]. The Aussie scrum looked ok and the rest just clicked and looked easy.
If it looks easy on the pitch it means one of two things - a hell of a lot of hard work or you're playing a Lions team coached by Clive Bludi Woodward.
This has all been a bit earnest so i will finish with a joke...
Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.
One says, "I think I've lost an electron."
The other says, "Are you sure?"
The first replies, "Yes, I'm positive."