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The Magic Academy

John Fletcher, Russell Earnshaw•www.themagicacademy.co.uk
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Supporting coaching wizards! Rusty and Fletch love to hang with rockstars from the coaching world and get them sharing through some pretty cool questions
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Season 4 - Episode 4 with Dan Norton & Tom Mitchell

Rusty says this is easily the most favourite Pod he has done so it should be well worth a listen Rusty chats with team mates and friends Tom Mitchell and Dan Norton of England 7's super stardom!

Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 4

Season 4 - Episode 1 with Richard Cheetham

Season 4 kicks off with Rusty getting back on the bike with "The Two Wheel Prof" Coaching wizard and all round good bloke and the Lord Mayor of Chievley Services, Richard "Cheets" Cheetham

Feb 12, 2020•44 min•Season 4Ep. 1

Season 4 - Episode 2 with Jamie Taylor

Rusty catches up with Jamie Taylor...EIS, Leicester tigers and Denstone college. Owner of a noisy drinking dog...

Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 2

Season 3 - Episode 23 with Phil Llewellyn and Aaron Takel

Rusty chats with an Englishman taking a sabbatical from work to coach rugby in Canada and a Welshman who moved to Canada to play rugby and is now coaching there about all things coaching over there including some cool examples of how clubs are collaborating to help their players develop quicker...

Jan 15, 2020•41 min•Season 4Ep. 23

Season 3 - Episode 21 with Amy Price

The legend that is Amy Price part 2... purist, coach and coach developer, lover of box sets and high quality sleep enjoys ripping apart Rusty’s coaching... 🤘

Jan 09, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 21

Season 3 - Episode 20 with Tom Hartley

Rusty chats with Tom Hartley - football coach, owner of a Masters in Early Years Development, prison project wizard, soon to be dad, top man...

Jan 01, 2020•56 min•Season 3Ep. 20

Season 3 - Episode 19 with Dr Ed Coughlan

Rusty chats with Dr Ed Coughlan... skill acquisition specialist, deep reflector, working on waiting at least 4 times for the players to work it out and aiming for transfer through PEAQ.

Dec 25, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 19

Season 3 - Episode 18 with David Murrie

Rusty chats with David Murrie... lover of rugby, hater of tacking, coach, biomechanist and Michael Barishnikov lookalike. Website https://sites.google.com/site/davemurriesportsscience/

Dec 18, 2019•55 min•Season 3Ep. 18

Season 3 - Episode 16 with Max Caldas

Rusty chats with Maximiliano Jorge "Max" Caldas the very well respected Argentine field hockey defender, who made his debut for the national squad in 1994, and competed for his native country in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics. Since 2010 Maximiliano Caldas is the Dutch women's national team coach. On the 2012 Olympics he won gold as a coach with the Dutch women's. They also grabbed the gold at the first edition of the Hockey World League in 2013. In June 2014 he won his th...

Nov 14, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 16

Season 3 - Episode 15 with Phoebe Schecter

Rusty chats with Phoebe Schecter - American Football coach. Find out more about Phoebe here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RcosmUiA8o

Nov 06, 2019•49 min•Season 3Ep. 15

Season 3 - Episode 13 with Rhys Williams

Rusty chats with Rhys Williams... writer, musician and part time wizard. Works with Craig David and played flute for Morrissey, purveyor of quality dad jokes and slightly better than RhysWilliams3

Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 13

Season 3 Episode 12 - With Danny Newcombe

Rusty catches up with Danny Newcombe... International hockey coach, coach developer, inventor of Roller Ball and wearer of caps...

Oct 08, 2019•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 12

Season 3 - Episode 11 with Ross Tucker

Rusty chats with Roos currently a science and research consultant for World Rugby, where his role is basically to support all strategic decisions that involve player welfare (so injury, concussion, player health), High Performance (performance analysis, performance audits) and Law (law change and monitoring).

Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 11

Season 3 - Episode 10 with Gavin Allinson

Rusty and Fletch do a special pre-WC pod with Gavin Allinson, rugby coach and the man who will prevent Fletch from eating Scotch Eggs and Smarties in Service Stations for at least the next 6 weeks.

Sep 20, 2019•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 10

Season 3 - Episode 8 with Garry Banford

Rusty chats with Garry Banford, ex-Special Forces, culminating in him being senior recruiter for UK Special Forces. Rusty and Garry discuss principles that connect both his world and the world of sport. Amazingly Rusty manages to use the phrase 'killing baddies'.

Sep 10, 2019•50 min•Season 3Ep. 8

Season 3 - Episode 6 with Tom McLaughlin

Rusty turns to the world of S&C this week as he chats with Tom McLaughlin, High Performance Manager of Ealing Trailfinders. Some great conversation including top tips for Grass roots coaches on bringing fitness to games! Tom boasts a wealth of experience from working in professional environments such as Bristol, Connaught and Wasps since the genesis of professional rugby!

Aug 28, 2019•55 min•Season 3Ep. 6

Season 3 - Episode 5 with Peter Walton

Waited a long time to write this! Fletch catches up with the legend that is Walts down in Malvern after watching some rugby together! This will be essential listening!

Aug 20, 2019•49 min•Season 3Ep. 5

Season 3 - Episode 4 One Year In - With Rusty and Fletch

The lads sit down after a long day at Sedbergh to reminisce and reflect on 1 year of The Magic Academy and the million steps a day that Rusty is currently doing! On the agenda... Rusty's admin, Fletch's work on's and a job application for the Crusaders!

Aug 13, 2019•46 min•Season 3Ep. 4

Season 3 - Episode 3 with Crista Cullen

The lads are grafting hard at the famous Sedbergh Camp this week and Rusty took the opportunity to catch up with Crista Cullen, Hockey player, drag flicker, conservationist, coach and living in a house with Fletch and Rusty for 4 days in Sedbergh....oh and by the way its probably cool to mention she's a Triple Olympian,Gold & Bronze Medallist as well as an MBE!

Aug 06, 2019•51 min•Season 3Ep. 3

Season 3 - Episode 2 with Shane Fletcher

In this weeks episode - Rusty chats with Canterbury Crusaders Team manager Shane Fletcher.... My favourite expression in this pod...???? "Saturate them with performance" Love Magic Stig

Jul 23, 2019•48 min•Season 3Ep. 2

Season 3 - Episode 1 with Andy Plimer

Rusty is in Canada this week and catches up with Andy Plimer, Family man, Rugby coach, Teacher, Twitcher (Life list: 1052) Really bad hockey player, IPA enthusiast & Creator of @RugbyCoachsCn podcast (The second best podcast in the world!)

Jul 16, 2019•48 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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