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Contact

It’s not always easy to get young players to embrace contact which is why we’ve spent so much time devising and testing contact drills that will help your players grow in confidence. Use them alongside our tackling drills to develop a team of players that are comfortable making and taking contact.

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'My team rallied after learning I had cancer'

'My team rallied after learning I had cancer'

When Maggie Hammond opted to dial down her busy career due to ill health, she was about to receive some devastating news. This is her ref...
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Hip, twist or turn?

Hip, twist or turn?

These are the three main options the ball carrier has when taking the ball into contact. Help players decide which is the best choice to ...
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Quick-fire review of how to improve concentration

Quick-fire review of how to improve concentration

Notes and links from the webinar on Improve Concentration
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Using ruck pads for all the right reasons

Using ruck pads for all the right reasons

Dial up the intensity and reduce the physical load? Or go player-to-player? It all depends on what you want to work on and when, says AND...
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Win the last yards

Win the last yards

It is easy to place the ball if the ball carrier has forward momentum. Use this activity to develop better leg drive in contact.
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Win back maul ball

Win back maul ball

A player holding the ball tightly in a maul is in a strong, but defensive, position. Ripping it away needs strength, but also good techni...
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Close the ruck gate

Close the ruck gate

Perfect the three-player ruck to win quick ball and keep more of your attackers on their feet. It comes from good execution of clear roles.
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Scrap, scrap, scrap!

Scrap, scrap, scrap!

Help players discover ways to retain possession in contact or find ways to rip the ball away from the opposition with the new tackle heig...
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Rugby Coach Weekly Issue 157

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    Coaching safe and creative ways to fall

    Coaching safe and creative ways to fall

    Coach learning researcher and rugby coach DR ANNA STODTER explains how to develop contact confidence at a pace that suits the players in ...
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    Protect weak shoulder

    Protect weak shoulder

    This practice will help your defenders get balanced and ensure they don’t get stepped past on their inside or outside by the attackers.
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    Drift offloads

    Drift offloads

    Create space for a supporting player by attacking a defender’s outside shoulder. The ball carrier can then offload, inside or outside, to ...
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    Super-square rucks

    Super-square rucks

    If players can arrive at the ruck low and very square, they will clear obstructions in an efficient way. It is much less messy and produces ...
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    Maul solid central

    Maul solid central

    Not all mauls are set up from lineouts. Sometimes, a player stays on their feet through first contact and is held up, choosing either to ...
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    Battle of the heads

    Battle of the heads

    Win the space over the ball after the tackle to create quick ball. Work on your players getting their head over and beyond the ball while ...
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    Mauling moves

    Mauling moves

    Clear, concise and accurate communication is vital to support play, in attack and defence. Help your players establish the language they ...
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    Dominant ball carrier

    Dominant ball carrier

    Create opportunities by denting the defensive line and opening up spaces. 
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    The 'Four Fs' behind dominant ball carrying

    The 'Four Fs' behind dominant ball carrying

    Create opportunities by denting the defensive line and opening up spaces.
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    Crunch the ruck towers

    Crunch the ruck towers

    This innovative practice makes players get their height at contact right and also requires them to stay on their feet through the contact ...
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    Contact decisions

    Contact decisions

    Have players assess their options before contact to ensure they win possession and retain the ball for the next phase or just go forward.
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    Command performance

    Command performance

    In contact situations, players must react accurately to verbal commands from team-mates. Use this during a warm-up for ball placement.
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    Develop robustness in training sessions

    Develop robustness in training sessions

    DAN COX, head coach of English fourth-tier side Old Redcliffians, explains how he focuses on players’ ability to repeat certain actions ...
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    Hard ruck contact

    Hard ruck contact

    Develop tacklers’ decision-making on whether they are the tackler, the assist or not involved, and whether they can assist at the right ...
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    Making your players 'Contact Confident'

    Making your players 'Contact Confident'

    From landing safely to ensuring player and coach buy-in, an introduction to World Rugby’s new resource from one of its key drivers, DR ANNA ...
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    The turnover kings and tackle fetchers

    The turnover kings and tackle fetchers

    ’Fetchers’ win the ball back from the tackle area. Help your players learn their rights at the tackle area and disrupt the opposition’s ...

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