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Rob's guest today is Jack Russell, retired cricketer, cricket coach, goalkeeping coach and artist.  Jack is a retired international English cricketer. Born in Gloucestershire he played for his home county from 1981 to 2004. Starting as a fast bowler he was soon inspired to try his hand at wicket keeping and become one of England’s finest.

Known for archetypically being his ‘own man’ following a stellar career Jack went on to coach goalkeeping in professional football. 

The seeds of his post cricket life were being well sown during his playing days and since hanging up his gloves Jack has become an artist of renown, painting many famous images of his beloved sport and environment.

Jack and Rob talk about his childhood and initial interest in cricket, his career and mentors, his understanding of performance and training and some of his biggest and most important experiences in cricket.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Jack started playing cricket at his fathers village club when he was eight or nine years old. He always competed against older children or adults. 
• Andy Brassington of Gloucestershire County Cricket was one of Jacks strongest and earliest mentors in the game of cricket.
• Understanding the mind and its thought processes is as essential as understanding the physics of cricket.
• Being a perfectionist can result in being counterproductive.
• On his first day with England at Lords Jack tried a bit too hard and dropped two catches. Pressure made him lose his focus..  
• In his latest book Jack expresses some of his experiences in cricket “18 Counties ; A Personal Journey” by painting all the cricket grounds he played while with Gloucester.

 

BEST MOMENTS

‘It was just a really sport orientated household. I just grew up with it so the love of sport came from there.’ - Jack

‘There’s something about people being challenged with older siblings and parents in sport.’ – Rob

‘He (Andy Brassington) coached me to perform better to help me take his job. How many people would do that? So eventually I replaced him in the team.’ – Jack

‘You can be such a perfectionist you end up destroying yourself and you end up destroying the end product.’ – Jack

‘It didn’t go according to plan, the first day, but I came out of it with reasonable flying colours.’ – Jack

‘When I wrote about playing at Old Trafford, it’s a book of sketches and paintings, but the double page spread where I write about that incident, I’ve not put any sketches, it's just black and white.’ - Jack 

GUEST RESOURCES

https://jackrussell.co.uk

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST

Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience

Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.

The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.

  

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