{"id":1902,"date":"2019-09-29T01:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2019-09-29T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:21:53","slug":"pressure-the-key-to-aussies-improvement-kafer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1902","title":{"rendered":"Pressure the key to Aussies' improvement: Kafer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pressure is Australia’s downfall when it comes to trying to conquer the Kiwis, Rod Kafer says.<\/p>\n

Former Wallaby Kafer, who is heading up a new national coaching development plan including the creation of a national advisory panel, said Australia’s lopsided record against New Zealand was a self-fulfilling prophecy.<\/p>\n

No Aussie side has bested a New Zealand team since May last year when the Waratahs beat the Chiefs and it was a year earlier that they were the most recent team to win in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Australian skills fall down under pressure, Kafer said, in part because of the cycle of doubt created by the past.<\/p>\n

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“I think there’s absolutely a technical component around how we’re playing the game,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It manifests itself in some of the mental issues we’ve had. We’ve become accustomed to, and it’s not a criticism it’s just what happens, we start to self-perpetuate this idea that it’s difficult to beat New Zealand teams.<\/p>\n

“Everybody talks about it – in the media we all talk about how tough it is and it starts to leach into players and the way they perform and they feel that pressure.<\/p>\n

“When we feel pressure, our skills start to break down.<\/p>\n

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“When our skills start to break down we drop the ball, miss tackles and we lose matches.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to increase our capacity to deal with pressure and to deliver skills under pressure – that’s reflected in how we train, how we play, how we prepare for games and the mental approach in terms of changing the mindset from being a close loss to a close win.”<\/p>\n

Kafer wants every rugby fan to be able to identify what ‘Australian rugby’ means, and his new coaching development role is to help establish that definition.<\/p>\n

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Kafer said Australia’s glory days in rugby could be identified by the recognition of a unified approach to rugby.<\/p>\n

“We need to establish in Australia a concept of a unity of purpose, what it is we’re about, (so) when somebody looks at an Australian team play, they can immediately identify it.<\/p>\n

“At the moment I don’t think we’ve got that, we’ve seen it in parts but I don’t think we’ve got it.<\/p>\n

“When Australia was great, we recognised that there was a team who were innovative, they were thoughtful, they were prepared to bring something a little bit different. They’re the qualities that many people regard Australian rugby as having and we played a running game of rugby.<\/p>\n

“Is that still relevant today? We have to determine what’s the right mechanism for the game at the moment.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The former Wallaby rejected the notion that all Australian teams would need to play exactly the same way to fit that identity, though.<\/p>\n

ARU high performance manager Ben Whitaker said part of that was working with all levels of coaches, who might be disconnected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pressure is Australia’s downfall when it comes to trying to conquer the Kiwis, Rod Kafer says. Former Wallaby Kafer, who is heading up a new national coaching development plan including the creation of a national advisory panel, said Australia’s lopsided record against New Zealand was a self-fulfilling prophecy. No Aussie side has bested a New…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}