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Latch and crash

Latch and crash

Improve your players’ ruck decision-making by giving them four different situations to react to. They have to choose the best technique t...
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Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A clearer at a ruck must look to go beyond the ball. This not only drives back defenders, it frees up the ball for your scrum half to gra...
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Ruck circle

Ruck circle

Improve your players’ ruck decision-making by giving them four different situations to react to. They have to choose the best technique t...
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Mauls and peels

Mauls and peels

If you have control of the maul with the ball at the back, you can continue to attack close to the maul by “peeling off”. This keeps your...
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Your player, my player

Your player, my player

Use this simple defence activity to help defenders work in pairs, while giving one defender more responsibility than the other.
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Ruck transformers

Ruck transformers

Put your slow-ball ruck plays into more game-like situations. This wrap-play exercise is a good starting point; you can then use it to de...
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Maul ball for all

Maul ball for all

Mauling is a powerful weapon and you don’t have to be a big side to use it. Set one up from the back of a ruck to create go-forward and t...
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Better heights

Better heights

Use a flagpole to help players find the best height to arrive at the contact area. The lower they arrive, the easier it is for them to wi...
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Rugby Coach Weekly Issue 270

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    Understand the four key roles at the ruck

    Understand the four key roles at the ruck

    Clarity of responsibilities can help win the ball quickly, writes COLIN IRELAND.
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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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    The shift maul drive

    The shift maul drive

    This is an effective solution against a good maul defence - make sure the set up and basics are right. By GRAHAM SMITH, ex-England women’s ...
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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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    Power defence on the try line

    Power defence on the try line

    The “must-have” defensive system for your own try line.
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    Attacking from a slow ruck

    Attacking from a slow ruck

    Despite your best-laid plans, it is inevitable that during the game, your team will lose momentum and have to deal with slow ball. Here are ...
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    Fitting in the fight

    Fitting in the fight

    Rugby training should be physical at times, and with that, the players must want to win contact situations. How do you create that ...
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    Ruck decision making and effective rucking

    Ruck decision making and effective rucking

    Sometimes all our forwards pile into a ruck and we are short at the next breakdown. At other times, too few go in and we lose the ball. How ...
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    3 ways to get forwards rucking

    3 ways to get forwards rucking

    Sometimes all our forwards pile into a ruck and we are short at the next breakdown. At other times, too few go in and we lose the ball. How ...
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    A breakdown policy: If you don’t have one, you should

    A breakdown policy: If you don’t have one, you should

    Do you have a breakdown policy? If not, you should. A policy helps guide players' actions at the breakdown. Alongside accurate skill ...
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    Planning four week "bites": rucking

    Planning four week "bites": rucking

    If you are designing your plan for your team’s training, you are better off focusing on an “arc” of learning for a specific area. ...
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    Using science to adjust the way you set up your maul

    Using science to adjust the way you set up your maul

    The maul is a dynamic contact situation which occurs mostly from lineouts. There are lots of “coach” theories on how to set up and drive ...
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    Feel the force in the maul

    Feel the force in the maul

    Use a blindfold on a player in a maul situation so he has to use his sense of the force in the maul and communicate with the players around ...
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    Setting up the maul

    Setting up the maul

    Every team should have an effective maul in their locker. So use this session to work on the basics, which means ensuring your players all ...
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    Activities, sessions and drills to work on mauls in open play

    Activities, sessions and drills to work on mauls in open play

    Most mauls start from a lineout. However, they can still be formed in open play, sometimes by design and sometimes by accident. The mauls ...

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