RICHARD WHIFFIN on establishing a sound structure to utilise at the set piece.
Employing an attacking framework that your team can utilise in phase play gives a structural strength to the attack from which to create and execute good decisions.
Once a team is comfortable with the framework from unstructured phase play situations, it is important to test the ability to find the framework from set-piece situations.
The difficulty from set piece is that forwards are grouped in one area of the field, creating the need to map out roles for players to find the framework.
Using the 1-3-3-1 attacking framework, we will highlight the roles from scrums that the forwards need to undertake to find themselves in the correct positions to employ the framework.
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