Rugby: Simple Hands 2 V 1

Early catch, look, perfect pass. Improve your players' passing precision and speed to play with a free flowing attack.

The drill starts with 2 attackers in blue, standing behind one another, 5m from the 1st defender/attacker in red.

1. The blue players attacks the red defender, once they pass him the defender/attacker joins the attacking team in one motion - therefore 2 players will be ahead with 1 backup supporter creating a 3v2 situation.
   
   
2. The 3 attackers now attack the 2 red defenders.
   
   
3. Once the attackers beat the 2 red defenders the two defenders also join the attack to make it a 5v3.

The 3 defenders at the end stay on. The 2 attackers, 2 defenders and 1 defender must be replaced by new player to keep the drill continuous and stimulating

This drill coaches players the lines they should run when receiving the ball in order to maximise the chance of them breaking the gain line.

• Use a tackle bag to simulate where the ruck and offside line would be.
• The players line up as if they were going to come "around the corner" to receive the ball.
• Players should run an L shaped running line to get across the first defender and then footwork to get through the second defender.

Progression (0.49) - Add an extra pass to the drill

• For the first receiver the drill is exactly the same in terms of the running line.
• Then there is a second player on his outside shoulder who uses the same running line to beat the second defender.
• The first receiver has a choice (1.19) - whether to go through the gain line and pass or pass before he gets to the gainline.

What is the gain line?

The gain line is an imaginary line in rugby parallel to the halfway line that is the back foot of the breakdown or the defences offsideline.

Set up 5 cones around in a circle. The tackler works out from the first cone to make the tackle. The tackler then backtracks around the next and then comes forward to make the tackle again. Two tackles off the right shoulder, one front on and two off the left shoulder.

The first players in each group sprint to the second blue cone then quickly back step to the first. Then they sprint to the third, back step to the second,, then sprint to the fourth where they side step to the next cone. At that cone, they sprint forwards to the next cone then side step to the last cone which they turn around and sprint back to the start and pass the ball to the next player.