Rugby drills
This season, never hunt around for a fresh rugby drill again, find activities to help you train all the skills your players need in Rugby Coach Weekly.
Get proven and easy to use drills for all groups and abilities and to coach all rugby skills with Rugby Coach Weekly. As a coach, it is your job to give your team the skills and technique to be great players.
The rugby drills in this section will help you coach your players in the core skills of the game. We’ll tell you what to look out for, how to get the ideas over to your players, and we’ll give you games and exercises to really power-up their skills.
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in Email Newsletters, Rugby drills
How many times have you seen an overlap go to waste? Not a 2 v 1, but if you have 4 v 3 or 5 v 3? MORE
in Passing & Handling, Rugby drills, Small-sided games
Pit forwards against the backs in this exercise to develop straight running and quick handling. It puts your players’ skills under pressure and the session can be adapted to suit groups of any size. MORE
in Footwork and evasion, Rugby drills
Take a pass under pressure, step away and beat another opponent. MORE
in Email Newsletters, Rugby drills
In coaching, there’s a time to tell and a time to ask. Both are powerful ways to help players understand their roles and responsibilities, as well as give them opportunities to learn. I asked one of our expert grassroots coaches, Ian “Didds” Diddams, to come up with the essential questions to use with yout players,... MORE
in Attack, Contact, Practice plans
Players love simple targets. Not just simple targets to achieve, but simple targets to understand like moving the ball from one end of a box to another. That’s why they will enjoy “blast”. It works on the ball carrier and his support making progress up the field whilst a defender attempts to prevent their progress. This expands into a match situation where the “blast” might be used. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Practice plans
Switch passes - also known as “cuts” - should be a natural part of the passing armoury. This session uses a simple exercise that can be set up with lots of stations. Players will learn that timing and angles are as important as the pass itself. MORE
in Rugby drills
The spin pass comes into its own when wanting to combine greater speed and distance – seeing a 10 fizz a long pass to an outside back is a thing of beauty. Here’s how to get players started… MORE
in Rugby drills
Create overlaps by coaching players to race “around the corner” just before the ball is delivered, giving the defence little time to react and get organised. The aim is to put the strike runner away. MORE
in Contact, Rucking & Mauling, Rugby drills
The first support player at the ruck needs to decide whether to clear out a threat and, if so, which technique to use. Start by developing three key techniques, then put them into a game situation. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Rugby drills
Timing the run is a tricky skill that requires setting up lots of scenarios in training. Use this busy activity to mess up the running lines of support players before they readjust to take a pass at pace. MORE
