Saturday A Rugby Day - Knoxville

Guys this is our second Game against Knoxville. We just need to play hard and ruck harder.

Time:
Rugby Team: Meet at 11:00 am
Kick Off ; 1:00 PM

Teams:
Chattanooga VS Augusta

Direction to home game:
Click Here for all the info


Message from Coach:


Team,

Two things:

1) Chili cook-off. At least 8 of you volunteered. Wayne will provide you with the logistics.
2) We actually have a game of rugby to play as well. Arrive at the field at 11am. AGAIN - 11am. Not 10 after, or 12:45pm. Kick off is at 1pm.
We owe these guys big time. Let's do it.

Jared.

Nooga games maybe on DVD

I have recently found out I have a DVD burner (Wish I knew before) and well for the most of you asking me about them. I can make DVD now. But I have told some of you I may Charge and I think I am going to do that.

I am Charging Because I don't want to pay for every DVD, So I am still looking how much I may charge. But I am looking at $5.00 Per DVD. If I am right, After I sell 5 DVD I will have paid for 50 DVD-R.(More DVD to record on)

So I would Take about $1.00 For DVD and Sleeves.
And the $4.00 Would go back to the Club.

So I have made a Order sheet if you want to order some DVD's, or if you just want to hit me up and tell me what you want. ( ianjamescooper86@yahoo.com )
(I am Only doing this to Help are team)

Note: If you get Games 1-8. I will have to make 2 DVD. To much for 1 DVD. So on the Sheet write 1, or make sure you tell me 1.


Examples are on the Sheet if you want to see how it work.

Use this One to Print if you wish to order (Below)

Problem with Stage 6 (where I put Video's on the net)

(Update: Feb 26 , 10:12PM)
So what I think you guy's should do if you can, Download them all the Rugby Video's. Unless you want to wait until the end of the year and then you can get them again, but I will charge for the Club.


Click here for All rugby Video (Only Games)

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"Stage6 announced that it would be shut down on February 28, 2008." I though people were lieing about it on the site but it ends up being true.

Click for Article about Stage 6 shutting down

So I may need some help finding a new place to put video's on the net. If I can find something on the internet then. I will do what I said about maybe making CD or DVD at the end of the Year.


Click here for Article

Team PIcture on the Net

Thanks to our Camera man, David Humber. We are getting our team pictures and game pictures.





Click here for his Gallery

About the old whites game Tomorrow

This is the old Whites Schedule for this Year:

Team------------Side----W/L------Score
Knoxville A*-----B------ L,----- 0-12
Augusta A*-------B------ L,----- 12-36
Renegades B*-----B------ L,----- 13-17

Click here for there site
It looks to me we should have no problem beating them this weekend. So no hard drinking tonight. Stay ready, and strong for tomorrow.

Idea to help the Club out

As some of you guys know I do my own Video editing and also do my own game recording. So I was thinking I know some of you watch it on the internet, but some are having problems watching it.

So here is what i am thinking.

At the End of every season, I will sell the game on CD (Will try DVD) to help the Club out. I would take some of the money for CD and Slips for the CD. But the Rest Would go back to the Club.

So I have right now:

*Chattanooga Vs Renadages
*Chattanooga Vs Knoxville
*Chattanooga Vs Augusta
*Rugby beer games (knoxville)
*Rugby Songs movie (knoxville)

So like a small charge nothing big, I would say $4-$6. Again this would go back to the Club.

You don't have to buy the CD's at the end of the season, You can watch the free one's on the internet, but I though it would be nice to give something back.(in a small way)

Time for a change

I have been thinking about it for a while, Knoxville has one, Augusta has one. And well I think we need one too. I have made a Forum for us to use. I will still use the blog, but the Forum I think will help us get closer as a team.

http://noogarugby.freeforums.org/

This is sort of a test, but I am still working on stuff. Yes if this fly's then we can use it for the rest of the season and year.
Just I would like to ask for a little something from you guys. Please Join, and I will put you in Groups.

Like :
Nooga Team (Current team of Nooga)
Old Boys
Fan's (maybe)

But i need people to sign up, I made the Group for "Nooga members". But if I want to make more groups, I need people to join and then make them Admins of the Group.
Again hope you guys enjoy.

Ian James Cooper

The Game Nooga VS Augusta, On the Net !!!!

Here is now our 3rd Game on the internet.


Chattanooga VS Augusta


Alternative Link:
Click Here

Some of you guys played great, nice tackles and holding them back. Some like when they had the ball wasn't sure what they needed to do. So watch and hope it helps. Ian

Oh I said it before, but i forgot the link. There is also the Knoxville game but only 30 mins or so.

Chattanooga VS Knoxville



Alternative Link:

Click here

Nooga Video's and Pictures

(Update: Feb,19,08 -1:41am )

I am almost done with the Game, it is now converting again. And should be up sometime around 3 pm. 26% is done, then I need to convert to DivX and upload. So will take time. Thanks for Being patient.

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I am having a little problem's with the game video, but I will try to get it done as soon as possible. Someone (Won't give names), was filming the lady's more then the game. Also I need to take 20 different Clips because there all 4 mins long vs the 40 mins I wanted. But I can fix it, so it no problem. Just more work.

and in other News .....


Thanks to David Humber, we have our first pictures of 2008.
I Will play around with them later, And see what I can do with Photoshop.

Word from David Humber:
Hi guys! Thank you for an enjoyable game on Saturday.Next time I will be sure to stay to get your team picture and also to shoot more action ... I will try and have some longer glass so that I grab more shots. I would also like to thank you all for looking after my nephew Ethan ... I always said that I wished that he could hang out with a bunch of well versed and upstanding Rugby Nuts.

Wishing you all well.

Message from Coach !!! and other stuff.

Team,

Today's score was 41-6. First of all that's a points difference of 35 points. That's a lower score than the Renegades put by us. Second, this was a MUCH better team than the Renegades. In my opinion (and I still haven't seen Old White) this is the team to beat in our league. However, I am extremely frustrated because we could have won that game. We did not stay focused for the full 80 minutes and every time we switched off, they scored. I also suspect that fitness was a little lacking as well. But, let's focus on the positives: We dominated them for large periods of the game; we finally got our first points of the season (Sid's kicking practice before the game paid off); Our forwards again looked assertive; and I think within a couple of weeks/games we are going to have a back line that strikes fear into oppositions. We had 2 boys playing new positions today, Jake R. and Wells. 2 forwards who have been promoted/demoted (depending on your thinking) to our centers. I think they got caught out a couple of times trying to be forwards, but for the most part a big success. Well done lads. As with most of our players, things will get easier with experience. Unfortunately, that's the one thing Jeff and I can't teach. Speaking of Jeff, kudos to Jeff for stepping into a role most of us are quite happy to participate in from the sidelines, but few are willing to put their money where their mouth is and do it on the field. I am of course talking about Refereeing. I am sure I speak for all of us in thanking Jeff for stepping in and allowing a game of rugby to be played today.
Man-of-the-Match. I need to mention our MotM's from last week. I didn't send anything out last week (I was too pissed off actually!), but we need to make mention of 3 guys who played their socks off. Our backs MotM went to both Ryan and Pat (who played fly half for the first time). But our team and forward MotM went to Matt Rabine. Week in week out this guy just gives it his all, and today he had another outstanding performance. However, today's MotM's were Sid (backs) and Chewie (forwards) and yet again the forwards took team MotM with Chewie. Great job guys. I don't know if we've ever seen Chewie run 20-30 yards, ball in hand, handing off players (one he carried with him for 10 yards) just creating devastation in his wake. Nice!
Finally, we did have a couple of guys who didn't get onto the field. Normally in that situation (being down by 30 points) I would have got you out there for some playing time. It was my mistake not to get you out there. Sorry.
Ok, practice Tuesday. See you there.

Jared.

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Video's of Knoxville game

The Knoxville game is up but its only 30 min's long. We need someone to film. and I will be looking at the game today and should have it up on Monday.

Saturday A Rugby Day - Augusta

So as you guys know its a home game. So we need to run fast, and play hard.

Time:
Rugby Team: Meet at 10:00 am
Kick Off ; 1:00 PM

Teams:
Chattanooga VS Augusta

Direction to home game:
Click Here for all the info


Message from Coach:
Team,

I have copied you with the contact list. It is as update as I have. If I am missing anyone's information please e-mail it to me.
Saturday is our first home game against Augusta. I am making some changes which I think, in the long run, are going to make us more of an attacking team. I expect us to compete very strongly tomorrow.
Meeting time is at 10:00am at the Rossville field. I don't recall anybody telling me they will not be there, so I am planning on seeing a full squad. You now have everybody's contact info, so take it upon yourself to call around and get players there.

See you tomorrow,

Jared.

5 Secrets of the Front Row

5 Secrets of the Front Row

Andrew Millward is a full time professional prop for the Ospreys, the Heineken Cup team providing the bulk of players to the current Welsh squad. Andrew is, moreover, a WRU level 3 coach. He spoke to me last year about some of the current techniques used by front rows at the top of the game.

1. Engage and chase quickly

At the top level scrummaging is an intense business. "Three second scrums" are the aim (apart from for pushover tries), so the ball is in and out quickly. All the effort comes from the engagement and beyond.

Too often, though, sides across the board stop on the engagement. In fact they should be driving forward as soon as the shoulders touch.

At the Ospreys, we concentrate on the speed of our feet movement going forwards, using quick, short steps. Calls certainly help with our timing. We use "hit, 1, 2, 3, 4", and then a quick step "1, 2, 1, 2". My main piece of advice here is sharpen up your calls.

2. Four locks together

Binding by the flankers at scrum time can be very random. On lots of different levels this can disrupt the scrum effort.

If a flanker can give me some support, then I have more weight behind me. From a communication and timing point of view, if everyone is scrummaging together, we will be better off.

We get our flankers to bind onto the locks BEFORE the locks bind onto the props. This avoids flankers binding late as they wait to find out the back row or backs moves. All our calls therefore need to be sorted out in advance of the binding.

3. Second row binding options

A long armed lock can struggle with binding through the legs. When the shove comes on, their arm can slip forwards and their shoulder disengage from the best pushing position on the behind of the prop.

My solution here is to turn their hand around, so the palm faces away from my shorts. This grip is more like an Olympic lift position, with the hand still wrapped in the drawstring area of the shorts.







4. All change for 5 metre scrums

I always like to try something completely different for a 5 metre scrum. I will use a tactic I have yet to use in the game, like changing the angle of my driving. Their prop won't know what to expect and I will hopefully gain the advantage.

With the 5 metre scrum being so crucial and dangerous to the defending side, this difference can cause the sort of disruption which increases pressure on the whole defence. But I save the tactic for when it's needed. If we don't have a 5 metre scrum I might not use the technique during the game.

5. Boss your opponent

What should I do at the first scrum of the game? Wait to find out how the other guy is going to scrummage, or impose my own style on him? These days I don’t wait.

I am lucky enough to have video analysis and so can look at and prepare an action plan for most of the props I might be playing against. Most props don't have these benefits, but they can consider two things come match day.

First, even if they don't know their opposite number's playing style, they can look at their body shape to give them some clues. In the most simple terms, the big guys will use their weight, whilst the smaller props will use technique.

Second, they want to give the other player the problems. And that is "problems" plural, because it's easier to scrummage against a prop who always does the same thing, no matter how good they do it.

So I suggest that your props learn to vary their approach for each scrum.

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Support Play to Speed Up Your Attacks

When the ball carrier gets tackled to the ground, the support player is faced with two key decisions - play the ball or form a ruck. Paul Tyler looks at helping your players make the best decision depending on what is in front of them.

The support player needs to be close to the ball carrier before and during contact, offering physical support without overrunning the ball. He should communicate helpfully, where he is and what he wants the ball carrier to do. For instance, "stay on your feet", or "go to ground".

If the ball carrier cannot pass the ball away, once tackled to the ground he must place the ball as far back as he can towards his team, to give the support player options.

Option 1: pick and run - If there are no defenders nearby, the support player should pick up the ball and run straight.

Option 2: pick and pass - If there are defenders close by, the support player should pick up the ball and pass.

Option 3: ruck - If there are defenders so close by that the support player does not have the time to play the ball, he should form a quick ruck.

Pick and run exercise

The ball carrier goes to ground as if tackled and places the ball back. The first support player picks up the ball in a low position and passes to the second support player. This player takes the ball on for a few metres, then goes to ground so the exercise can be repeated.






Decision making exercise

Involve a defender in the above exercise, placed either 3 or 5 metres from the "tackle". If the defender is close, the support player should make the decision to pick and pass. If the defender is further away, the support player should make the decision to pick and run. You can vary the defender's position and the pace they move forward to increase the pressure.

You can develop this exercise further to practise quick ruck ball, by getting the defender closer to the ball carrier so the support player doesn't have time to play the ball.

Developing a quick ruck

When developing a ruck, the support player must tell the ball carrier they're going to form a ruck and then when to go to ground. After the ball carrier goes to ground, the support player should target and clear away the closest defender, with the intention of leaving the ball clear for the next support player.

As the attacking team you should commit as few players as possible to the ruck to win the ball. This gives you more options for the next attack.

Worst case scenario

You should drill your players to see slow ruck ball as a failure in attack, because it usually means the support players were too far away, or that the ball carrier was isolated or fell in a bad position.

Key points to slow ruck ball

* It is difficult to attack from a slow ruck since the defence has time to get organised.
* It doesn't matter if the ball then gets slower! So take your time and get organised for the next phase.
* Don't commit even more players to the ruck. Instead make sure your players are ready to win the ball at the next phase.
* Have a plan to create quicker ball at the next phase and then execute it.



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Saturdays Game Day

This is normally where we meet if we go to Knoxville. Meet at Shoneys

Time - 8:30 am if you want to eat. 9:30 am We leave Shoneys

If you are going by yourself or can't make it to the meeting.
Save these 2 numbers, just in case you are lost.
Jared - 423.240.9968
Wayne - 423.503.1948


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*Knoxville rugby Team

Directions to Possum Park

• From Interstate 40 get off on exit #398 head north on Strawplains Pike
• At first stop sign, turn right on Asheville HWY.
• You will pass the Carter Library on your right.
• Turn left on Carter School Road. The Middle School and High School are on Carter School Road.
• Turn right on College, between the schools. You will see steel gates on the left before you get to the end of the road. This is the Pitch.

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New Website maybe !!!!!!

Hey guy's we are thinking of making a new Website for the Team as some of you know. You maybe thinking " Why don't we use www.chattanoogarugby.com" Well we can't. The reason for this is because we don't own the website. Somebody else does and we aren't sure who (some have a idea). But like I said we maybe looking for a new site.

So far I have some info on this site call www.1and1.com it looks cheap and it may work.

So I will leave some of the details away, just for reasons. But looking at the website 1and1.


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