Rugby: Realign To Attack A Broken Defence

The realignment and depth hands drill is a quick drill to focus the players in sharpening their alignment and depth before a session. You can spend as long or as short on this drill as you need. The aim of the drill is to develop the speed at which players realign themselves, to support their early hand-catch, quick and accurate transfer of the ball to a support player.

• Set a 5 cones 1.5 meter apart in straight line. This will mark where the players will start the drill from
• Set 4 cones at a diagonal in line with the starting cones from one edge. This will be the cones that the defending players need to retreat to before coming up to pressure the attacking players.
• The first attacking player needs to step back 1 meter and will receive the ball from the first defending player who has also stepped back 1 meter to his designated cone
• Divide the group into 4 attacking player and 5 defending players, there should be a free attacking player
• The ball starts with the defending player
• On the coaches call, all defending players need to work back to their designated cone and then come forward in a straight line to their opposite attacking player
• The attacking players set their own depth to ensure they have time to catch and pass effectively
• On the coaches call, the first defending player will move back to their cone, once they get to the cone they pass the ball to the first attacking player, and then the first defending player tries to put pressure on the first attacking player
• The attacking players try to get the ball to the 5th player without being ‘touched’ by a defending player

• Bags
• Balls 

2 attackers line up opposite 2 defenders with bosh bags. 

The coach delivers a ball into the attackers. 

The ball carrier aims to run an overs line - Outsid ehsoulder of first defdner, and attack the second defender.

The second attacker looks to leach on/latch on to the ball carrier pushing them through the contact area. 

Looking for a quick exstra few yards. 

• The aim of the drill is to develop mechanisms to unlock defences in open play
• The first defender/feeder starts with the ball at a cone set up on the touch line five metres out from the try line
• Set another 2 cones 15 meters up on the same touch line. Two players (defenders of the 3v2) start from here once the 2v1 is completed.
• Set 2 cones on the try line 5 metres apart to create the start position for the two attackers and the attacking channel for the 2v1
• The ball is fed from the first defender, with the attackers completing a 2v1
• The defender joins the two attackers to create a 3v2
• Two attackers then become the two defenders for the next repetition of the drill

Out in 4s - simple hands - When players reach the end they should turn left.

Group realigns around the cone and then use simple hands to finish.

You can put defenders into the second channel to increase the difficulty of this drill.