EXPERT SESSIONS AND ADVICE FROM QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED GRASSROOTS RUGBY COACHES
Lineout training should be based around getting the basics right first. When Gary Gold was coaching the South African team with Victor Matfield and they were the best lineout in the world, he used to say: “They know where the ball is going, but Victor will always beat them into the air.”
But a lineout is not just about the jump/lift. It’s also about what happens afterwards. Here are four activities to develop different aspects of this set-piece situation.
Use Lineout good/bad phases to develop your play based on the success of your lineout.
Great four-man lineout plays gives you options if you lack lots of jumpers and lifters in your team,
If you don’t nail the throw and jump, Lineout recovery challenges the players to react and restart the phase.
Lineout imperfection is ideal to introduce more players into the possible lift/jump roles.
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Improve the movement and coordination needed for lifting the catcher at the kick off. MORE
Pressurise opposition lineouts by making their front ball a risky option. You need to combine speed, accuracy and anticipation to read their movements and beat them to the throw. Here’s how… MORE
Use the catch and drive, or the front peel to make the best use of front ball. The front peel is the perfect counter punch to a defence that sets up to defend a catch and drive. MORE
It's easy to think that lineout front ball is only for a catch-and-drive to clear your lines, or to attack their try line from 5m. Yet, it can be used for off-the-top and front peels. But make sure you have the basics in place first. MORE
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Here are some clips for all the players in the scrum to give them more powerful positions to drive forward. MORE
Here are some more one and two-player exercises to build stability under pressure which will increase core strength development. MORE
