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Hi Simon
I find your newsletters very interesting and useful. I do have one questioned%3A how do you make a player realize that he is not bigger than the game itself? If you could post it on the blog for other coaches and experts to read and they could also give their input it would be nice.
in more ways than one
sportplan_rugby
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