Get your season off to a flying start with our two Pre-Season sessions
Introduction to Handling and Unit Plays
Where do I start? Try our introduction to the season session - working on Option Plays and Basic Skills!
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Drill of the Week
Touch Rugby with mini-maul

Touch rugby in teams of 5. Once a team has been touched three times change possession. When a player is touched, the tackler stays in passive contact until the nearest attacker comes in and support...

This drill is taken from this weeks session of the week.
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2nd Session of the Week
Continuity Play - Passing your way out of the tackle
Avoid the breakdown by focusing on continuity skills - keep the ball moving and start to work on contact!
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Readers Drill of the Week
Dummy Running

In this move the 10 is instrumental.

Firstly they play the ball across the 11 straight to 12 and then they arch their run around the back to support the play and receive the return pass.

The 12 then prepares to make a support run whilst 10 passes to 13.

13 then passes to 12 who completes the move with a pop pass to 14.

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Rugby Answers

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