Main ways to apply pressure

Accurate and fast skills through three main principles of play with apply pressure.

In general play, this would be:

Also, good quality possession in the first place will keep defences under pressure. For example, from a clean lineout or a strong scrum.

When we do these well, we can disorganise a defence, and/or create and attack spaces and mismatches.

In the next lesson, we will look at some ways to disorganise the defence…