Rugby: Fixing Defender - Continuous drill

• 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.

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.

• Groups 16+ 
• Cones 

Attackers and defender line up at the start of the grid. 

The grid is 3 chanels all of differnt widths. 

attackers set off one way aorund the cone, defenders set off the other way. (2v1 or 3v2) 

They must go up and down each channel (3 of them) 

completing there passes, fixing the defenders. 

Defenders must be passive or it will ruin drill. 

• 6 players + 
• Balls

Players stand around a coach holding ball.

The players then throw a second ball at the coach, he uses his ball to defelct the bal in differnt directions back at the players 

The players must try and catch the ball. 

If the players drop it they go to the bottom of the line.

Winner is the one who finishes at the top.