
Players start on opposite ends. Try line and 10m Line. Coaches kicks the ball to players on 10m Line. They attack player on try line go up and start defending. Attacking player try attack space with castle, quadro, Audi. Once an attacking player is touch by defender, the defender is out of play and needs to run and touch the 10m line before he can help defend again. Once attacking team scores or makes error the coach kicks a new ball to the 10m line side and the attackers and defender swap around where attack is now defending and defenders is now attacking. Before the new defenders can defend the need to run and touch the 5m line. This process is repeated on coaches digression.
Allow player freedom to experiment. Player to identify space once defenders are less Head-up and Communication
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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