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Rugby: Sausage Wrestle and Jackal

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Groups of 3
Sausage
Ball

1 player lines up opposite a standing sausage, wrestles it to the floor, landing chest ontop of the bag.

A 2nd play holding a ball puts the ball down on the right side of the sausage as if it was an attacker placing it.

The first play wrestling the sausage, bouncers up and competes for the ball (remeber to release)

The 3rd player once the ball has been placed tries to clear the player competing for the ball.

COACHING POINTS

Jackaler

Land ontop of bag
Use Hips to fire back to feet.
Release the bag before competing for the ball
Hold own body weight
Stable, Strong base.

Clearer

Aim for leavers.
Low to high body hit.
Can decide to use smash or croc roll.

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OFTEN USED WITH...

Running Lines and Breakdown Continuity:

A coach or scrum half feeds a ball carrier who should be running onto the ball.
The ball carrier should run towards the tackle sausage and use footwork and a hand off to move past the tackle sausage towards the first two tackle bags.
The player should aim to hit the gap between the two tackle bags and power beyond the contact.
Those two players then drop the bags and follow the original runner in support.
The ball carrier then hits the bag, goes to ground and looks to lift the ball up to one of his support players.
The next player then hits the last tackle bag, goes to ground and presents the ball.
The next support player clears away the bag to secure the ball.

This drill works on a number of skills (running onto the ball, hand off, footwork and hitting gaps, communication and support, clearing out a ruck) in continuity which means its more game realistic and trains players to not only perform the individual skills, but also to be thinking about how the skills link together and what their next job is.

Ruck Clear Out

Rucking Body Position:

Players split into pairs and line up in as many lines as you require
Balls should be set out 2 yards in front of the player at the front of the line
The first player holds a tackle bag side on and falls flat to the floor with the bag, just behind the ball
The player gets into the rucking position over the ball and drives out over the ball for five yards.

Ruck Clear Out

Breakdown Technical Work:

tackle sausage

Place 2 sausages perpendicular from eachother in a T shape.

Have one player line up a couple meters away from the bag.

Conditioning drill, the player does reps of clearing the bag, running back to the line, doing a down up and going again.

Ruck Clear Out

Tackle, Bounce, Compete:

Sausage
Cones

After you have completed the bounce motion, you can bounce and fire.

Fire - is by any means effect there breakdown and slow the ball down - when you realise you cant steal the ball.

Jackal - stay on and win the ball over the break down.

Players line up on the cones
the first play makes a tackle on the sausage get s up and becomes the defender. (jackal)
the second player listens to the coloured cone the coach shouts and goes around that cone before trying to clear the (jackaler)
The jackaler makes the decion to Jackle or Fire through the break down depending on the speed of the arriving defender.

Ruck

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