Rugby: Quick hand and quick positioning

Create doubt in the defender's mind by getting your ball carrier to run straight with the ball, and support runners to run good lines to create depth and width

2 groups of 2 players start on set cones about 15m apart. The 2 players are situated one in behind the other, the same goes for the second set of 2 players.

1. Once the player with the ball starts to run, the supporter goes wide and straightens onto a gate of cones.
2. As soon as he passes the ball the second supporter can start to move out to his designated gate.

Ensure that the players hide behind one another!

5 players in a group, line up within touching distance of one another, facing the coach who has a ball in his hand.

The coach then calls "turnover" and the Players quickly get width, but are not allowed to work backwards to get depth.

Once the players get depth the coach lets the first man off the mark by popping the ball in the air, as it is popped he moves off the mark and accelerates onto the ball and moves forward.

• Tell your players the following.....
• The first player runs out with the ball to the first set of cones and passes the ball to the second player.
• The second player then runs out to the next set of cones and passes the ball to the third player, who runs out to the next set of cones.
• In the last area of cones, the ball has to be passed quickly amongst all the players.

1. 4 players stand on the middle cones in the grid, avoiding the corner cones. The 2 players at the top and the bottom of the grid will have a ball. The players on the sides of the grid will have one ball between them.
2. The 5th player will be the ball carrier.
3. The ball carrier starts at the top of the grid facing the bottom. Moving forward they will take a pass off one of the middle players and pass the ball onto the other middle player. They will then collect a pass off the player in front of them, before popping the ball back to them. They will then turn and once again collect a pass off one of the middle players before moving it on to the other middle player. They then take a pass off the top player before popping it back and starting the exercise again.
4. They keep going until told to switch with another player.
5. The player in the middle can turn and flick the ball to the static players at the top and bottom of the grid, as well as popping the ball.