The Magic Academy
Supporting coaching wizards! Rusty and Fletch love to hang with rockstars from the coaching world and get them sharing through some pretty cool questions
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 251
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Season 4 - Episode 22 with Kirk Vallis, Stuart Lancaster and Nick Twigg
An epic episode bringing together Sport and Business as Rusty and Fletch chat with Kirk Vallis of Google, Stuart Lancaster who's internet sadly went awry and Nick Twigg to talk all things around lead…
Season 4 - Episode 21 with JP Doyle
Rusty chats with International and Premiership referee JP Doyle.
Season 4 - Episode 19 with Joe Marchant
Fletch chats all things rugby with Joe Marchant
Season 4 - Episode 18 with AB Zondagh
AB Zondagh chats with Rusty all things Stade Toulousain, skills coaching, players taking responsibility and coaching in a foreign language...
Season 4 - Episode 17 with Dr James Bell and Richard Hill MBE
It's Fletch's turn to take the reins for the Magic Academy podcast! He is joined by Dr James Bell guru of performance phycology chats with Ricard Hill MBE of Saracens, England and British Lions fame!…
Season 4 - Episode 16 with Eddie Jones
Rusty chats with Eddie Jones, who has been the head coach of the England national team since 2015. He previously coached Australia between 2001 and 2005, taking the team to the 2003 Rugby World Cup F…
Season 4 - Episode 15 with Jamie Williams and Mark O'Sullivan
Jamie, Mark, Rusty and the mysterious John chew the fat on restarting coaching kids from scratch after a conversation started on #WebinarWednesday
Season 4 - Episode 14 with George Ford
12 years on from when they worked together in the England pathway Fletch chats with George Ford, Englands current Fly half! They chat about Fordy's early experiences, leadership and the World Cup Fin…
Season 4 - Episode 13 with Stuart Lancaster
Stuart Lancaster chats all things coaching, co-coaching, leadership and being Fletch's best boss..
Season 4 - Episode 12 with Clive Chapman
Rusty chats with Clive Chapman, rugby coach at Birmingham & Solihull Bees explores the joys and challenges of coaching community rugby...
Season 4 - Episode 11 with Marcus Smith
Rusty and Marcus chat all things coaching, his journey, scanning, skill development, transition, analysts and pick their best 5-a-side rugby teams...
Season 4 - Episode 10 "An International Special!"
Rusty chats with rockstars of Italian Rugby - Luca Bigi, the international Captain, Michele Mordacci, the Peter Pan of Rugby Colorno and specialist in mini and youth coaching, Aldo Birchall who is ro…
Season 4 - Episode 9 with Andy Holloway
Rusty chats with Andy "Hollers" Holloway, kicking and skills maestro who works with Championship side Ealing Trailfinders. He also works with Blackheath and the winning Cambridge University team from…
Season 4 - Episode 8 with Jack Pattinson and Rhys Davies
Rusty catches up with Jack Pattinson, London Irish DPP manager and Rhys Davies who works alongside him as the Academy Coach Development Officer.
Season 4 - Episode 7 with Sally Needham
Rusty chats with Sally Needham, County Coach Developer for the FA, Northerner and lover of coaching young children. Rusty wrote loads of notes!
Season 4 - Episode 6 With Mark O'Sullivan
Rusty chats with Mark O'Sullivan, AIK Soccer, one time Morten Harket bandmate and street show jumper...
Season 4 - Episode 5 with Jeff Williams
Rusty chats with Jeff Williams.. ex-England 7's and Bath rugby, now enjoying the sunshine of France...
Season 4 - Episode 4 with Dan Norton & Tom Mitchell
Rusty says this is easily the most favourite Pod he has done so it should be well worth a listen
Rusty chats with team mates and friends Tom Mitchell and Dan Norton of England 7's super stardom!
Season 4 - Episode 3 with the Lincoln Branch of The Magic Academy
Rusty brings together the Lincoln Branch of MA with Ross Tarnowski, Tom Eves and Shannon - Enjoy the Valentine bonus episode!