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Selecting the best backs moves

Selecting the best backs moves

You need to learn the backs moves that best work for your team and their skillset. Adapt ones you already know, but also consider how you...
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Stop creating slow ruck ball

Stop creating slow ruck ball

Winning rucks is not good enough unless you can generate “quick ball” from them. Quick ball means defences will not be set, allowing your...
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Break through organised defences with smaller players

Break through organised defences with smaller players

Apart from good running lines, try using short passes at the gain line and, with more experienced players, look to use switch plays with ...
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Armchair ride for 9s

Armchair ride for 9s

Give your scrum half an “armchair ride” at rucks by providing them with quick, clean ball to allow them uninhibited gathering or passing ...
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Release the most dangerous players

Release the most dangerous players

Give your backline more chances to run, pass and score under pressure by using the right running angles and good footwork to produce more...
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What’s the benefit of a whole-part-whole approach in training sessions for my team?

What’s the benefit of a whole-part-whole approach in training sessions for my team?

Phil Sharpe, Lead Coach at Northampton Saints DPP, adds further context.
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Sticky fingers

Sticky fingers

Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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Stopping the maul

Stopping the maul

Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Concrete ball to crunch a good defence

    Concrete ball to crunch a good defence

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Understand the whole of defence when you practise

    Understand the whole of defence when you practise

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Tackle space is important in the modern game

    Tackle space is important in the modern game

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Miss passes need disguise and deception

    Miss passes need disguise and deception

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Super rucks to win quick ball

    Super rucks to win quick ball

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Run straight, run hard and run at pace

    Run straight, run hard and run at pace

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Creativity at play: Bridge passes

    Creativity at play: Bridge passes

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Creativity at play

    Creativity at play

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Sharp defences need sharp minds

    Sharp defences need sharp minds

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Keep an activity ticking over

    Keep an activity ticking over

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Real tackling to better tackling

    Real tackling to better tackling

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    A medical trick to improve skills

    A medical trick to improve skills

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Evasive games to suit low numbers

    Evasive games to suit low numbers

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Box kicking essentials

    Box kicking essentials

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    How do you develop a style of play that suits the strengths and weaknesses of your players

    How do you develop a style of play that suits the strengths and weaknesses of your players

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.
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    Attack with no pace – tough ask

    Attack with no pace – tough ask

    Editor Dan Cottrell adds further context to two sessions.

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