Rugby: Loop (L1,L2,L3)

Keep your player briefing, brief! It's important to get your players working as quickly as possible.

• Lets get the ball and the players moving with lateral passing through the hands.
• Each training area only needs one ball, and that ball should be any of the two players at the outer most cones.
• Tell players to move forward, passing the ball down the line. When the ball gets to the last receiver, that player will pass it to the first receiver in the next line. That player should be waiting to go.
• Players should advance right away, they don't need to wait for your call.
• Allow the players to move the ball down the lines, just to get them used to handling the ball within the L.
• When you feel the players are comfortable, tell the players that the first ball carrier will miss pass the ball to the third player in the line, who will miss pass to the last player in the line, who will give an inside ball to the forth player in the line, who will then pass the ball to the second player in the line.
• When each line has completed the above pattern, they should give the ball to the next attacking line. The last pass to the next attacking line will be a long pass and should be completed correctly within the laws of the game.
• Allow the players to discover, though questioning, the best possible way of executing the M1 while maintaining or creating depth in advance of changing the pattern of attack.
• Players should change position in the line after each run.

Keep your player briefing, brief! It's important to get your players working as quickly as possible.

• Lets get the ball and the players moving with lateral passing through the hands. Each training area only needs one ball, and that ball should start with the any of the two players at the very ends of the L.
• Tell players to move forward, passing the ball down the line. When the ball gets to the last receiver, that player will pass it to the first receiver in the next line that is waiting to go.
• They should advance right away. Allow the players to simply move the ball down the lines, don't mention the Miss Pass.
• After you feel the players are comfortable, tell them that on their call they can miss pass (M1) a player in the line. So the first ball carrier might decide to Miss Pass (M1) the first receiver in the line, and move the ball directly to the second receiver.
• Any player, if they have the option open to them, can call a miss pass.
• Allow the players to discover, though questioning, the best possible way of executing and calling the (M1) move.
• Players should change position in the line after each run.

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.

Tell your players the following:

1. One group of two players will be defenders, you might want to give them bibs.
2. The attackers just need to keep the ball moving without getting touched while holding the ball.
3. The passes can be forward.
4. Attackers can move around the training area.
5. If a player gets touched while holding the ball they and their partner become the defenders - the old defenders become attackers.
6. If the ball is dropped, the pass is bad, or goes outside the training area - the player that made the mistake and their partner become the new defenders, replacing the old defence.

• This should be fun, but players should strive to control the ball, moving it into space and away from the defence.