Rugby: Continuous passing drill

As the start of the season nears, continue to build your players resilience to contact and ensure they?re up to speed with their physical conditioning with this demanding session.

This drill will develop your players ability to regather difficult balls and make offloads. 

• Working in groups of three, one player is practicing the skill at a time. 

• The practicing player throws the ball to two other players who are holding balls.
• These two players bounce the ball back and the practicing player has to gather the ball without knocking it on.

Progression 

• Now the practicing player holds two balls. He has to offload and then regather the ball with one hand.

• This drill is designed to work on the loop; on of the simplest and most effective ways to create your own overlap/space out wide
• Start with three attackers and three defenders using tackle bags in front of them.

• Attacker 1 passes to attacker 2 and begins to loop around.
• Player 1 should then receive the ball back and his next aim is to fix the third defender.
• Attacker three should make his way out to the edge where the space has been created.
• Attacker 1 then passes to attacker 3 who has space to get around the defence.
• Using this drill will develop your players handling under pressure and their attacking vision and ability to create space

• Highlights the importance of attacking from depth and letting the ball do the work in attack.
• Team of four attackers versus three defenders.
• The teams line up opposite each other face to face.
• On the shout of GO, each team retreats a few yards and the ball is passed to the nearest attacking player.
• The attackers then quickly pass the ball along to the next teammate in the line as they step up.
• The defenders try to get close down the attackers.

• 8+ players 
• Ball 

• Players stand at equal distance away at differnt points along the grid.
• One working player runs in the middle of the channel. 
• The players on the outside pass the ball into the running player.
• The Working player must complete 2 sets of passing - 1 run off each hand.