Article taken from the Bishops Diocesan Website:
We are very pleased to be able to announce that the 1st XV coaching structure. All coaches except for Mr Jacobs will have the 1st XV as their focus, but will also work with other teams and coaches. However, all will have an integral role to play in the 1st XV in 2014.
Andre Jacobs (Head coach)
Vice-Head in charge of Sport and Discipline
Coached St Andrew’s 1st XV for 10 years
Coached Bishops 1st XV from 1999 to 2007
Coached Eastern Province Craven Week
Mike Bayly (Coach)
Played WP Rugby-33 matches
Played Boland Rugby-33 matches (Captain)
Coached Boland Rugby
Coached Boland CC Team for 2 seasons
Coached Rovigo, Italy for 2 seasons
Coached at Bulls with Heyneke Meyer from 2001-2007 (5 CC Finals in a row, 3 wins in a row, 1 draw and a loss
Super Rugby-2 Semi Finals and eventually a win in 2007)
Specialist backs and skills coach at Paarl Boys
Mike also taught at Bishops for 3 years before embarking on a professional rugby career!
Wes Chetty (ass. coach-forwards)
Wes Chetty
Bishops 1st XV 2006
Plays UCT 1st XV & for the WP Vodacom Cup Team
On top of the above, we have also acquired the services of
Steve McIntyre (Conditioning & Skills)
Bishops conditioning coach 1998 to 2007
Springbok Conditioning Coach 2006/2007 World Cup Winning Team under Jake White (say no more!)
Tom Dawson-Squibb
Tom Dawson-Squibb (Performance coach- mental side of things!)
Worked with :
The Stormers
WP Vodacom Cup team,
WP u21 team
University of Cape Town in the Varsity Cup competition
Cobras(WP cricket)
Ajax
Dr Geoff Huber and Gerald Muller are still very much on board and will still be looking after all the ‘lammies!’
Mike Bayly’s primary focus is 1st XV coaching but he will also be used for coaching development and planning, coaching the coaches, and as the attack and defence specialist where he will travel to various sides in the week. On top of this, he will also go down to the prep for coaching sessions at least twice a week.
Wes Chetty will work primarily with the 1st XV squad on a Tuesday, and when required, but will act as a travelling forward specialist for all teams on the afternoons that he is not needed for the 1st squad.
Tom Dawson-Squibb is also 1st XV squad focused, but will be working hard with all coaches and various other teams to improve their effectiveness in getting the players and themselves mentally prepared for their matches.
We wish them huge success in getting ‘Bishops Rugby’ up and running again!
Bishops – OMG ,what a super line up of top notch coaching staff !!!
The boys will be honoured to work an learn from such hot shots.
May it be an exciting season ahead for them….he who dares wins.
@BoishaaiPa: Ok BHP, can I step into the fray, what about cultural difference?
@BoishaaiPa: farmers sons vs accountant sons ;-)
@Grasshopper: Same rules apply to the Boland Schools!…Strand is just 20 minutes away..closer than Campsbay and Clifton is to Newlands and Rondebosch!..
@BoishaaiPa: It’s called other things to do other than rugby
@Grasshopper: So you reckon the talent is not spread amongst Paarl Boys, Paarl Gim, Paul Roos and Boland Landbou?..All within a 30km radius?…Then you still have all the tradional Northern Subs schools like Bellville, Tygerberg, Stellenberg, DF Malan etc etc…..Look for some other excuse for the Southern Subs bad record against the Boland schools!
@Tarpeys: agreed Tarpeys, having 4 or 5 big boys schools within 15km of each other means the fight to get the best is tough. Bishops will get the best on bursary and the wealthy kids. I think this is the exact reason the Southern Suburb schools don’t have great records against the Paarl schools, talent is spread across Bishops, SACS, Rondebosch, Wynberg, Westerford, Reddam and others. The beach is also a huge distraction. Good luck to Bishops they have a great coaching team there. Wasn’t Jake White’s boy the captain there?
They have some incredible individuals there with cvs to match but its tough there in that region.