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Gordon Pretorius
Rugby coach and university educator in the Netherlands; Head Coach & Director of Rugby at RC Spakenburg and founder of CoachCraft, featured on The Coach G Show.
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Mar 25, 2026
Gordon Pretorius on Rugby IQ and Smarter Coaching
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And when did you realize that your perfect Tuesday session or Thursday session doesn't always equal a good Saturday or good performance on match day?
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9:52Gordon PretoriusGUEST
Yeah, you know sometimes we think that We've got to do things so well in the week that we perform on a Saturday or then we get to the Saturday and we absolutely get thrashed or we just don't connect with what we were practicing.
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10:11Gordon PretoriusGUEST
There's also times where we would train terribly and not have a very good training week or have a week off in between really important games and actually perform.
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10:24Gordon PretoriusGUEST
And so for me, I was starting to look at, okay, how did it get to the point where you either train badly and perform well, or you train perfectly well and perform badly? So I was looking for the connection.
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10:38Gordon PretoriusGUEST
And I was at uni, we teach a part of a course we teach for didactics is based on memory and based on memory.
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10:46Gordon PretoriusGUEST
um you know how how things stick in long-term memory or what happens when you know what causes it not to stick for example even the smallest thing and so i was teaching the course and i just had a moment of oh this makes sense you know it connects to i think we're overloading them with information um And we're not putting them in situations enough, which is game-like.
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And if you are able to elaborate a bit on that, if not, if you can then at least maybe give us some guidelines on how coaches can use AI.
