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Dan speaks to Tom Morris from Progressive Rugby, an independent player welfare lobby group founded in 2021 to drive change that both better protects player brain health and the game’s long-term future.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Separate strategies to make rugby safer and more appealing at both the community and professional level
• Improving education and the need for a concussion communication system in youth rugby
• Helping young players understand the benefits of learning proper tackle technique
• Implementing a community of care in grassroots rugby and sharing best practice
• Whether the age when contact is introduced in youth rugby should be adjusted
• The importance of attracting and maintaining players in the community game

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Dan chats to Sean Phelan, the brains behind Fill Your Boots, the way that players and clubs can connect to fill the gaps on a Saturday.

In the podcast, they discuss:

• How Fill Your Boots works
• Why clubs struggle to find players and creative ways to solve this
• How clubs can welcome players
• How can the women's game grow now
• How do we help retain volunteers

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Dan chats to Kris Stafford, Rugby Development Officer at Leeds Beckett, MSc in Sports Coaching, U.K Coaching award winner, and host of the @bigbreakdownhq podcast.

In the podcast, they discuss:

• Making sure the players are valued and integrated into the coaching process
• How to genuinely engage with the players outside their sport
• How to have entire team conversations
• What a positive and supportive learning environment looks like
• Ways to design a practice to make purposeful
• Using the STEP model to develop practices
• What is meant by the MOTs of the ABCs
• Where to use a self-directed learning approach, where players spend time exploring and practicing key skills both with and without coach guidance
• Where players need guidance and where they can take control
• Using all the coaches in the session to run an effective game
• How to make player huddles more impactful

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