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Scotland’s Everest

Mental Preparation (Belief, Focus, Clarity of Thought) important for Scotland to record historic first victory over New Zealand All Blacks

Mental Preparation I played New Zealand many times. I lost to New Zealand many times. I came close to beating New Zealand several times. But I didn’t. Looking back we lost those close games in the mind. There were games when I don’t believe that every member of our squad genuinely thought we would win. […]

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Better Never Stops

Glasgow Warriors coach Dave Rennie in action before Guinness Pro14 rugby match

Photo courtesy of Craig Watson Photography Room for Improvement “We’re always going to strive to be better…” “We can be a hell of a lot better…” “From a coaching point of view I know we can do a lot better…” Three different quotes after the three matches in the Guinness Pro14 from Glasgow Warriors Head […]

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“That’s not what I meant…”

Team Scotland, Commonwealth Youth Games, Leadership, Teamwork, Passion, Support

There’s more to communication than what you say I gave an overview of my experiences leading Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games (http://colingregor.com/commonwealth-youth-games/ ). One of the important areas I found was how the team communicated. Previously, I touched on the What’s App group we had. This allowed for immediate dissemination of information. It […]

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