Coaching player decision making in rugby union: exploring coaches espoused theories and theories in use as an indicator of effective coaching practice by Michael Ashford, Ed Cope, Andrew Abraham, Jamie Poolton

“…Misalignments were apparent for learning activities, where coaches espoused the need for representative practice but used more single-phase and huddle based scenarios, and coach behaviours, where coaches espoused the importance of setting problems for their participants through divergent questioning, yet used more instructional behaviours and convergent questions leading players toward a shared mental model of collective decision making behaviour. …”
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