Rugby: One Handed Offloads

• 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

• Groups of 12+ 
• Balls 
• Cones

4 defenders lineup in a passing grid, that has laid out 2 red cones and 2 blue cones as shown in diagram. 

4 attackers line up opposite passing the ball up and down there line of 4.

When the coach shouts blue or red, the attackers set off, and the defenders on the coloured cone the coach shouts out. 

The Attckers must react fix the defenders, identify the space and score. 

Set Up

Between 3 to 15 players - 1 to 4 ration of ball to players - players spaced no more than 5m apart

Players catches ball - falls onto back and pops ball off one or two handed to free player

• Ball 
• Groups of 3+ 

• 2 attackers line up opposite a defender.
• The defender makes a low leg tackle on the atttacker. 
• The attacker being tackled tries to get arms free and perfom an offload to the supporting runner.