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Attack space & edges

Attack space & edges

This activity can encourage your ball carriers to run at pace, looking to avoid contact by anticipating where the spaces are.
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Go round in circles to create width in attack

Go round in circles to create width in attack

This unusual pitch set-up will pose problems for your players to solve. They will need to use good handling and support to get wide.
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Tunnel ball: the wide-pass decoy runner

Tunnel ball: the wide-pass decoy runner

Here’s how to practise a commonly used play to break outside the defence and thread the ball between them. By Wales Under-20s coach...
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Tackle recover

Tackle recover

Work on what the tackler and tackled player do immediately after the tackle. Some quick-thinking players can create or prevent turnovers ...
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Contestable kick-offs

Contestable kick-offs

If you concede a score, why not put the pressure back on the opposition by winning the kick-off? MATT BEBBINGTON on how the top teams ach...
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Handling booster

Handling booster

A session ideal for pre-season or in-season if you need to reconnect your players with their handling skills and pace onto the ball. By D...
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Second-touch options

Second-touch options

The ball carrier should always be looking for a second touch on the ball so that, once they have passed, they run to be inside or outside...
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Find the bib – playing in four dimensions

Find the bib – playing in four dimensions

Adapted from a game called ’drop-off touch’, this challenges players to look for and create mismatches. By Loughborough Unive...
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Rugby Coach Weekly Issue 158

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  • Attack space and edges
  • Tunnel ball
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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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    One out support

    One out support

    In this activity and game, the second player in support of the ball carrier needs to work out how to support the tackle contest.
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    Immediate support

    Immediate support

    A drill that will improve the depth and timing of support players when the ball carrier gets half-held so the attack keeps going forward.
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    Take on the challenge

    Take on the challenge

    Defensive systems aren’t an excuse to avoid tackling. This session forces your defenders to step up and make a tackle in their channel.
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    Improve your rondos

    Improve your rondos

    Small-sided games with lots of repetitions can energise a group. But consider when, where and how to use them, says coach developer GRANT HA...
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    Fast back, fast forward

    Fast back, fast forward

    Help players reposition themselves to make use of quick ball and overlaps. Those who stay balanced as they move will see the gaps.
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    Line-breaking moves

    Line-breaking moves

    By changing running angles, centres can leave gaps for wingers. Use ’ins’ and ’outs’ to create gaps and release the blindside winger.
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    It’s good to talk

    It’s good to talk

    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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    Attack the narrow side

    Attack the narrow side

    Use this to work the ball up the touchline - without ever going into touch - to allow your team to open up the field and attack wide later.
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    Clever lines

    Clever lines

    The player on the edge of a ruck will be able to recycle themselves back into the game quickly by choosing the right angles straight from ...
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    NFL-style game for speed of support

    NFL-style game for speed of support

    Using an offside player to receive a forward pass, who can’t score, requires that players support ball and space. By JACK PATTINSON, S...
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    Running lines after the break

    Running lines after the break

    There is more than one way to use big tackle tubes in training. Here is an innovative way to improve your players’ running angles and ...
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    Developing more intelligent support players

    Developing more intelligent support players

    A Game Intelligent player knows why they make the right decisions and so carries them out more often. Dan Cottrell shows you how to improve ...
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    Rapid fire touch

    Rapid fire touch

    This quick paced game challenges teams to work on their transition from defence to attack. Players can develop their evasive skills and ...
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    Quick Coach: Corner try

    Quick Coach: Corner try

    Attackers aim to use feints, footwork and handling to score over one of two try lines.
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    Ready, steady, attack

    Ready, steady, attack

    Get your players in place quickly to attack at pace from the next ruck in this simple realignment activity.

    Creating and keeping depth in ...

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