News & Opinions
Argentina still on the rise after a massive year
As the dust settles on an historic year for Argentina rugby that saw their introduction into Super Rugby, Argentina R...
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Articles
Deep dives on the modern game from The Rugby Site's contributors and coaches.
Attack
How the All Blacks are becoming a typical Dave Rennie team on exit counters
Current New Zealand supremo Dave Rennie has brought the same principles to the running of the All Blacks that he espoused in the Waikato ...
Set Piece
Is the new maul law working out as intended?
A minor, apparently trivial change can trigger an unforeseen set of consequences within the same system, and a major chain reaction furth...
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Set Piece
The importance of restarts
With the current trend towards high-scoring games, leading analyst Nick Bishop looks at how own-ball kick-offs have e...
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Defence
Two-stepping your way out of trouble!
How do teams beat aggressive high line-speed defences? Leading analyst Nick Bishop looks at the development of high-...
News & Opinions
Premiership Rugby – Predicting Future Performance Part 2
Ex Wallaby and Gainline Analytics founder Ben Darwin has ‘done the numbers’ on what creates team success. Ben highli...
News & Opinions
The Art of Selection & the Soldier Field meltdown
The All Blacks selectors get very few things wrong. So what went wrong in Chicago? Leading rugby analyst Nick Bisho...
News & Opinions
All Blacks in Pursuit of Ongoing Excellence
What motivates this All Black team to unparalleled success? Records or the pursuit of excellence? Leading rugby wri...
News & Opinions
English Premiership – Predicting Future Performance
Ex Wallaby and Gainline Analytics founder Ben Darwin has ‘done the numbers’ on what creates team success. Ben highli...
Tackling
Chopping them down to size
The chop or cut tackle remains one of the most effective defensive devices, particularly against heavy ball-carries c...
TRS Español
Planes de sesión TRS
El Director de contenido de TRS, Ben Herring, ha desarrollado una serie de planes de sesión que hará mucho más sencil...
News & Opinions
Coaches get the boot. It’s a fact of life.
A team fails and the coach gets fired – an unfortunate reality of professional sporting team life. Leading writer, Gr...
News & Opinions
Offloading from kick receipts
The success at the top level can often be measured by player’s capacity to offload in contact, accurately and under c...
Session Plans
TRS Session Plans
TRS Rugby Content Manager Ben Herring has developed a series of session plans to make your coaching role that much ea...
