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The evasion hot box

Footwork & Evasion

Improves footwork and ability to evade contact. Players will need to use their peripheral vision and their ability to see where defenders are.

Turnover attack

Attack

A quickly executed attack from turnover possession causes the opposition problems. This activity focuses on players’ decision making after winning turnover possession.

Run, step, pop and support

Passing and Handling

Draw defenders out of position and then use short passing for the support player to run onto. Use this activity to get the timing right and then put into a game situation.

7 steps to killer back moves

Backs Moves

Good teams will refresh their playbook from year to year to keep opponents on the hop. Before you design some imaginative new moves to excite your players, here are the key guidelines…

Taking the ball into contact is unique to rugby, as are the skills and mentality required to succeed at it. So introduce contact sessions early to your players to help them assimilate the concept over time.

Pin down the cheating flanker

Rucking & Mauling

No team worth its salt can play with a continual stream of slow ball. So use these activities to speed up your team’s attacking play by detaining their “cheating” back-row players.

The Go-forward square drill

Attack

Create a team of players who go forward with the ball and find space to attack by using this square-shaped drill.

Jazz up catching

Kicking & Catching

Refreshing tackle games

Tackling

We’ve all felt like this before. You leave tackling out of a session for just one week and it’s as if players have never done it before. Here are four simple ways to get them back on track.

2 fun ways to work on evasion

Footwork & Evasion

Most young players have good natural agility skills so practise them often. The warm-up is the best place to play chasing games and here are two games that combine agility, fitness and fun.

Draw and pass rugby training drill

Passing and Handling

Creating and completing a 2v1 situation is a fundamental skill in rugby. Paul Tyler has a drill to help the ball carrier and supporting player win these situations more often.

Planning for pre-season training

Team Management

Paul Tyler, a Level 3 coach and teacher shows how you can use an easy periodisation plan to cover the six key elements of a pre-season programme.

Ruck warm-up drill

Warm-Ups

Prepare your players for a full contact rucking session and reinforce some of the key skills needed to ruck effectively. Players should have completed a dynamic warm-up before the contact phase of the warm-up.

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