Netball: Down the court with defenders.

Develop your players decision making and communication skills in order to gain or maintain possession of the ball and control the pace of the game.

Develop your players feeding in order to feed the ball accurately into the circle, whilst also improving their confidence.

Develop your players physicality on court to be able to react and adjust to passes and make interceptions. This come from reading the game and being physically conditioned to consistently be adjusting.

Develop your player's basic defensive skills in order to turnover the ball or force attacking errors.

On receiving the ball from the feeder player 1 turns.

Players 2 and 3 should both make strong sideways movements in opposite directions, the defender can go either way.

Player 1 must try and pass to the unmarked player as quickly as possible.

Player 1 turns their back to players 2 and 3 and receives the ball from X.

On receiving the ball player 1 pivots.

Players 2 and 3 both make strong sideways movements, but only 1 of them calls for the ball. Player 1 passes to this player.

Ball is passed round the square with players timing their move so that they run onto the ball.

1. In this practice 2 players run to make a lead to receive the ball.
   
   
2. Feeder throws to one of the players.
   
   
3. The player that did not receive the ball makes another lead run to receive the ball.

White player 1 initiates a move towards either ball (on cone). Red player 1 responds and tries to get the ball before white 1 . But whoever gets to the ball first throws to their team mate.

Defender must decide whether to

1. go for the ball and defend the throw if unsuccessful or
2. drop back and mark the receiver.