EXPERT SESSIONS AND ADVICE FROM QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED GRASSROOTS RUGBY COACHES
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.
in Attack, Rugby drills
Creating overlaps increases your chance of all positive results: scoring tries, gaining ground, making breaks and quick recycled ball. So use planned moves from the scrum base to manufacture a 3 v 2. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Practice plans
The miss pass is frequently misused. When executed at the right time, it releases attackers but too often allows defenders to drift out and push the attack towards touch. This session will develop the understanding of when to use a miss pass - or not. MORE
When you run a move from the back of the scrum, the quality of ball delivery by the 8 is crucial. So work your 8 and 9 in isolation to develop an understanding of what’s best to use and when… MORE
in Practice plans, Rucking & Mauling
All your players have to be able to clear away defenders at the breakdown. Though you won’t want your 9 or 10 to do too much of this work, they may be the first ones there. This session forces players to learn and creates confidence to ruck more. MORE
in Rugby drills
Younger players will drop or fumble the ball more often than older players. Here's a little competition you can set up to improve their awareness and resilience to win the ball. MORE
in Rugby drills, Warm Ups
Improve the body positions to drive in a maul, scrum and through a ruck with this simple body drive warm up. MORE
in Rugby drills, Scrums & Lineouts
Get the right jump and body shape for your jumpers so they’re easier to lift and quicker into the air. This session will soon highlight flaws in technique if players aren’t leaping vertically. MORE
in Rugby drills
With the atrocious weather witnessed in Britain this winter (or any winter!), I remember with one of the young teams I was working with, my team manager had sometimes to book an Astroturf pitch for training. MORE
in Attack, Defence, Rugby drills
Set up scenarios with problems for attackers and defenders to work out how to "win" the situation. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Practice plans
The angle and timing of the support player makes an offload (pass out of the tackle) work. Because the ball carrier is falling over or being manhandled by the defender, he needs to be confident that support is in place for him to release the ball. This session works on the different angles a support player can take. MORE
