The ‘B-word’ is the Best Word What is the most important word in community and junior sport coaching?Let’s run a few scenarios to find out. How good is it seeing a hockey player belt a tomahawk, glove side of the goalie in the top corner for the opposite side of […]
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Sporting coaches and most sporting fans would be feeling sympathy for recently sacked Essendon Bombers coach, Ben Rutten. While his situation is in the context of elite sport where he is paid very well, the fact is, he was not treated as well as he should have been and had […]
By Will Braid Phwoar! What a weekend! The Hockey Tasmania annual June Long Weekend (JLW) junior tournament was held at the Tasmanian Hockey Centre on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend with players, coaches and managers from all parts of the state striving for regional supremacy. There were experienced players who […]
June is Pride Month and as sporting people we are seeing more and more weeks, rounds and months where certain issues are being highlighted. This may be volunteer recognition week, the Speak Up Stay CHATTY round, in this case, pride round as part of pride month or on the big […]
In recent weeks the ABC have been running a thing about the best 40 Ashes moments of the last 40 years and, as you can imagine, on Shane Keith Warne features regularly.We are creeping up on the anniversary of David Boon’s classic catch for a hat trick, there is the […]
There are some great days on the Australian calendar.Days that we have fun like Christmas, days where we celebrate too hard like birthdays, days we remember like ANZAC Day and days we commemorate like the Easter. There are days of mourn and party at the same time like Australia Day, […]
How many times have you heard when recruiting from other clubs, “I’ll stay, I just want to play with my mates.”?Every year, every coach in the word tries to attract a new player to their club and every year this line gets trotted out. And rightly so. Playing sport with […]
Who remembers the “Milo Man”?You know? That person who would come to your school when you were in primary school and teach you how to play cricket in your phys ed lesson?They would usually come armed with a bag full of bats, balls, stumps and batting tees and show you […]
What a whimper!Did anybody else know it was National Coaches Day on 8 October?Nah, apart from seeing one hashtag and posting a quote from legendary NFL coach Tom Landry I all but missed it myself.There seems to be a day for everything these days.World Spider Appreciation Day, National Pencil Case […]
Is Dean Boxhall a nutter or coach invested?It’s been plastered all over the news all over the world, the reaction of Arianne Titmus’ coach Dean Boxhall when the TASMANIAN won the 400m freestyle in Tokyo, seemingly weeks ago now.Boxhall carried on like a pork chop when his charge beat home […]