Rugby: Long Passing Accuracy

Drill to practice passing laterally.

Set up a diamond roughly 10m wide and 5m long (see diagram).

Two players position themselves at either end and one player is in the middle.

The player in the middle is running shuttles across the diamond, each time he runs a shuttle he must catch a pass from one feeder, and pass it to the other one before completing the shuttle.

Players should do twenty repetitions each and then swap positions.

Tell your players the following......

1. Each group of two players should have their own ball.
2. While they have a partner, they can pass to anyone.
3. They just need to move the ball, pass and catch.
4. They also need to move around the training area.
5. They can pass in any direction.
6. Go - lets just get moving.

• After a little time, tell the players that their pass must be legal.

1. We will begin with laterial passing down the line, just to get going.
2. On your call we will start to miss the player in the middle, and pass to the next player instead (a miss-pass).
3. The player who is being missed should still come forward at speed and should still look as if they are going to take a ball.
4. When finished the players rejoin the back of the lines on the grid, but they move down one. So the first ball carrier now becomes the player to be missed, the missed player now becomes the reciever, and the reciever now moves to the first position to carry the ball.
5. Simple - lets get moving.