Deacon Manu's rugby journey is a remarkable one - from a university student eating instant noodles to captaining Fiji at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, by way of the Chiefs, the Māori All Blacks, and more than 15 years as a professional player. Today, Deacon is a world rugby educator, Chairman of the Pacific Rugby Players, and a senior leader at Dulwich College in Singapore. In this episode, host Scott McKechnie sits down with Deacon to bring his elite-level experience back to the grassroots game. They discuss what a brilliantly run community club actually feels like, why "connect before you correct" is a leadership principle every volunteer coach needs to hear, why so many clubs get stuck in administrative noise instead of the 20% of actions that create real impact, and how COVID has quietly affected a generation of young athletes. They close with De ...