Three yellow players are attack and defence. Yellow feeds the blue and can support the blue if they wish to transfer. If reds win the ball they need to get the ball to a yellow player. Then reds become attackers and yellow feeds ball back to reds while blues have to reorganise. If an attacking team scores they can choose to receive from any yellow player who will have a pile of balls with them.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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