Rugby Lesson Plans, Shop :: All Items
Welcome to the Rugby session shop! Here you can find all our best sessions that are available for purchase to give you help towards your coaching in specific areas of the game. Written by professional and respected coaches, these sessions will give you fresh ideas and structured training sessions at the click of a button!
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Lateral and Spin Passing for Beginners
Improve your junior players' passing with this technique session - passing off both hands, in practice and under match-like pressure learn more |
Pinning and Evading for Improved Individual Attack
Encourage your players to run with the ball to offset the oppo's defenders and experiment developing their individual running Flair! learn more |
Decision Making and Recognising Space
Find and exploit the space! Teach your players to look up, make the right decisions to find the space and avoid the contact! learn more |
Confidence under the high ball
Even when the wind's blowing and the rain's pouring teach <u>all</u> your players how to claim the high catch with confidence! learn more |
Conditioning/Evaluation Session - Touch Variations
Separate the wheat from the chaff and find out which players should make up your Starting Lineup in this fitness and skills evaluation session learn more |
Spatial Awareness and Attacking the Space
Change channel to find space with this week's using the full width of the pitch scanning and heads up attacking session learn more |
Conditioning for Attacking Patterns of Play
Keep this session up your sleeve - Get things going with a half hour conditioning introduction and then progress onto Attacking Patterns! learn more |
Scanning Session - Scanning in the Tackle
Use this plan to Improve your players' pass selection and completion - helping them to pick the <strong>right</strong> pass learn more |
Pass and Support - End of Season Session
Banish end of season mistakes with this pass and support recap session - packed with fun games to keep morale high at training learn more |
4 drills to eliminate bad passing habits
FREE PREVIEW: Eliminate those bad passing passing habits and make the good ones stick with this focused plan! learn more |
2v1 Attacking Skills Session
Improve your players' 2v1 confidence and introduce them to the dummy pass, support running and offloading in this attacking session! learn more |
Conditioned Games - Communication and Key Concepts
Have fun and help your players to gel as a team with this games-based match-skills session - focusing on ball handling, realignment and communication learn more |
Developing reactions and decision making skills to dominate support play
A player needs to make hundreds of decisions on the pitch. Get them making the right ones when in attack to utilise the support to sustain attacking pressure on the opposition. learn more |
Developing the Maul
Work on your team's maul technique with this session, improving their current ability to create, secure and defend the maul learn more |
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Improve your Handling and Kicking
Work on two key elements of any player's’ game with this session, regardless of their position! learn more |
Improving Attacking Kicking, Catching and Chasing
Improve your team's ability to attack from a kick with this kicking and catching games session - covering 3 key areas of your team's game learn more |
Colours for quick decision making & reactions
Get your players' thinking up to speed with a series of drills designed to improve reaction and decision making learn more |
The breakdown: Turning the Ball Over - Part Two
Teach your players to make the right decisions in the breakdown - don't lose possession when your players go to ground. learn more |
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Kicking Development: The Punt Kick
Perfect your players' punting to improve their ability kick for possession and territory with this Skill Development Session learn more |
Developing decision making skills to improve support play!
Make the right decision. Get players to offer support when it’s most needed and keep your attacks alive. learn more |
Decision Making and Handling
Time waits for no man, so use this easy to set up attacking session to get your players thinking on their feet and playing fast, quick-thinking and intelligent rugby learn more |
Pre-Season Prep: Fitness Games and Circuits
Work your players hard with a mixture of fitness games and 10 circuit stations, preparing players for the physical demands of this new season learn more |
Pre-Season: Skills Foundation Session
Get your team playing together again after the break, working on their handling, passing and match fitness in this fun attacking session, finishing with an exciting game of waterfall attack! learn more |
Sevens Rugby: Options in the Attack - Greater Pace
Give your players three simple options to improve their decision-making in the attack and get them past the opposition's gain line! learn more |
Improving the length of pass
The ball travels faster than a running player, so stretch your opponents defence by developing your players' long pass. learn more |
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Proactive Attack!
Improve your players decision making and passing ability and timing and attack proactively with pace and decisiveness to cut through defences at will. learn more |
Lead from the front - Front foot attack
Develop your team's attack to go on the front with this session, by improving their movement and offloading to their team-mates learn more |
Handling Refresher
Are you ready to handle the new season? - Improving their <strong>passing</strong>, <strong>catching</strong> and <strong>ball carrying</strong> skills learn more |
Developing Invasive Attacking Skills
Think quickly and get past the opposition, with this attacking skills session! learn more |
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Maintaining possession through secure handling skills
Improving your team’s handling skills with this attacking session, making sure that they keep the ball secure and running into space created learn more |
Engaging Defenders - Passing, Running and Receiving!
Put some sting in your rugby with this London Wasps fundamentals session! No matter what time it is in the season make time to work on the basics! learn more |
6 Ways to Improve Evasion and Footwork Skills
Develop a team of untouchables! Improve your players ability to swerve and sidestep past opponents with this evasion and agility footwork skills plan learn more |
Offloading - Keeping the ball alive
Cross the gain line and Improve how your players handle the pressure with this quick rugby session - designed to improve passing/offloading during and after contact! learn more |
Man-Marking - Defensive Alignment
Practice defending against overlapping players and get your back line communicating, taking responsibility for their man learn more |
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Tackle your way to success
Get tackling to success with this session, working on your team’s current ability and making sure that they are using the right technique learn more |
Improving Support Play and Decision Making
Teach your players how to make quickly make decisions and scan defences for weaknesses in this week's support and decisive play session! learn more |
Attacking - Part 2
Work on your players composure when going into contact to be able to provide the offload to create scoring chances even when under pressure. learn more |
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Developing Phase Play!
Get your team confident in both attack and defence with this phase play session, jam packed full with challenging exercises learn more |
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Dominant, decisive attack
Create a dominant and decisive attack in your team with this session, focusing on their ability to offload under pressure learn more |
Quick Hands - Attacking Space Session
<i>Fast hands = Fast Passing</i>. Get your team passing at speed to change the point of attack and attack the space! learn more |
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Defensive Principal: Competing Jackal!
Develop some tactical awareness and get your players recognising the value of slowing down the game with a jackal. learn more |
Games Session: Competitive and Fun Alternative to Drills
Game on! Competitive and fun game based session, focusing on decision-making, movement off the ball and attacking vision. learn more |
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Attacking Principle: Improving Decision Making and Support Play
Develop an understanding between players of where the support is and what the benefits are of providing it. learn more |
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Dominating the Ruck
Create sustained attacks by understanding how to dominate the ruck by developing an understanding of positioning and technique amongst your players. learn more |
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Developing a successful offload under pressure
Don’t stop gaining the yards once over the gain line, keep the ball alive and offer the support to create offloads to eliminate the defence. learn more |
Understanding the importance of effective offloading to secure possession
Develop your team's decision making ability to recognise how and when to set up an offload to unlock the defence. learn more |
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Developing communication and teamwork
Build a culture in your team that gets everybody understanding each other and makes them work hard for their teammate next to them. learn more |
Developing your Key Decision Makers (KDMs)
Can your players take the bull by the horns and make the right decisions when attacking? Find out in this attacking decision making session! learn more |
Rocking the Ruck
You've only got 5 seconds in the ruck to free the ball and win back possession for your team - Make those 5 seconds count! learn more |
Introduction to Handling and Unit Plays
Set out the targets for the season and develop your players handling skills after an intense physical pre-season. Put the final touches to your game with this session. learn more |
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Catch & Pass - Develop Good Habits
Develop a early hand catch, quick transfer of the ball across the body, and follow through towards the support player... learn more |
Attacking Flair - Kicking and Catching
Attack with flair! Improve your player's kicking with this kicking and catching session learn more |
Effective Counter Attacking - Options after a Turnover
Can your team counter quickly? A speedy attack after a turnover is a great way for your team to score as the opposition will be out of position learn more |
Improving Kicking Accuracy
Add an extra dimension to your game plus scrub up on the absolutely essential kicking techniques with this kicking session packed of videos and drills. learn more |
Front Foot Attack - Improving Decision Making
Hesitation is the enemy in this conditioned games session - use this plan to improve your players' passing and offloading under pressure learn more |
Phase Play and Continuity
Continue to build the phases in your play and get your team working as an unit to offer support with this session! learn more |
Rugby Fitness Drills and Games
Fitness is a vital part of getting to the line for the full 80. Work on your teams skills and technique whilst putting them under fatigue with a gruelling fitness session. learn more |
Ruck Development!
Rucking isn’t just about the breakdown itself, get your players thinking ahead towards the next play and make your rucks twice as effective. learn more |
Continuity Play - Passing your way out of the tackle
Help your side avoid the breakdown by focusing on their continuity skills - keeping the ball moving and starting to work on contact! learn more |
Eliminate missed tackles | Defensive correction plan
Missed tackles can prove costly! Use this plan to cut down the number of defensive errors your side make and help get them back on top learn more |
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Tackling Technique - Getting Low
A session to get your players back up to speed with contact. Great for developing confidence and encouraging your players to tackle low. learn more |
Backline Scanning - Reacting to the unknown!
Don't let your team succumb to static rugby - instead teach them to look up and play against what's in front of them learn more |
Mismatch Gold - Making the most of the numbers
Create space by shifting the focus of your attack and practice exploiting the mismatch with this Sevens Session learn more |
Kicking Confidence: Drop Goal Drills
Give all your players confidence to use their feet with this kicking session. Use the drop kick to score a goal or hoist the ball behind their defence! learn more |
Tackling for Toddlers - The basics of tackling
Lose the fear of tackling by teaching correct technique. That's the maxim for this session as we look at ways to get your children excited about tackling effectively! learn more |
Building player's confidence in contact
Build your player's confidence in contact with this session, as you work on their contact skills in a safe and competitive environment learn more |
Handling and Passing - working under pressure
Fast hands and a cool head will be needed in this physically testing pressure passing session - are your players up to the challenge? learn more |
Learning the laws of the game
Players who understand the Laws make better players! Use this report to find fun ways to teach your players the Laws of the game learn more |
2nd Wave Defence and Developing Offloading!
Develop your team's offloading in attack and their 2nd wave defensive play with this session learn more |
Sevens Rugby: Attacking the Space - Pass, Follow and Support
Get your players to use the width of the pitch and play intelligently, offering wide support options in this sevens rugby session. learn more |
Releasing the overlap
Once the overlap has been created, what do we do with it? In this session we look at ways to continue the attack by releasing the ball at the right time! learn more |
Defensive Dominance!
With this high intensity session, improve your team's defensive skills, whilst also working on their fitness learn more |
Defensive Skills: Contest Possession
Pile the pressure on the oppositions attack with this defensive skills session. Get them scanning the attack to put pressure on the ball carrier and anticipate the attack. learn more |
Second line of defence - Sweeper system
Introduce the sweeper system to protect your rugby team's defence from opportunistic high ball and save your team time and energy - while also forcing the opposition's attackers wide learn more |
Contact and Handling skills
Play with forward momentum and get your players back into the swing of offloading the ball when under pressure learn more |
Pre-season Burner 2
Get the team excited to be back together again. Pre-season?s going to be a battle, but go and make it fun with this burner! learn more |
Tackling Technique - Tackle with confidence
Refresh your junior players' tackling technique before the season starts to help them grow in confidence and prevent injuries in your team! learn more |
Edge play and Defence Organisation
Get your defence organised with this session, making sure your players are communicating with one another learn more |
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Developing fluid passing and movement skills to beat the defence
A session for beginners, work on their basics to develop the correct technique so that when it comes to game play, your beginners will soon look composed and confident in attack. learn more |
Development of Rucking
Use this session to introduce juniors to the ruck and improve older players' rucking ability - Starting slowly and use the progressions to increase the intensity learn more |
Developing Kicking Skills - the Punt Kick
Make sure all of your players can kick the perfect Punt, with this kicking skills session learn more |
Ruck Development - Teaching Roles and Responsibilities
Teach your players to contest the ruck in pods (small groups) to help them quickly recycle the ball learn more |
Confidence in Contact: part 2
Continue to improve your player's confidence when using contact, with the second of our Confidence in Contact sessions learn more |
Tackling Success - 1 to 1 and Double Tackling
Focus on technique to ensure your players tackle <em>safely</em> and <em>powerfully</em>, as well as looking at the progression from a 1-to-1 'fit' tackle to a positive double tackle learn more |
Maintaining Possession
Maintain possession and go forward with confidence, with this attacking session learn more |
The Zones Game
Use this fantastic drill in your next coaching session today and get ready to work your players hard learn more |
Fitness Testing Session
Put some responsibility onto your players and make sure that they?re up to the standard they should be after pre-season. Test their levels with this session. learn more |
Keep moving at the ruck - Driving Defence Session
Put your best foot forwards and <i>drive, drive, drive</i> the opposition back in this quick ball at the ruck technique session! learn more |
Decision Making & Handling
Early catch, look, perfect pass. Improve your players' passing precision and speed to play with a free flowing attack. learn more |
Dynamic Passing and Movement
Improve your player's confidence in a pressure-free environment, with this passing and moving session! learn more |
Attacking Principal: Developing Passing and Support Play
Develop your team's attacking abilities with this session, working on their passing and support for their team-mates learn more |
Contact Skills in the Tackle
Instil confidence and tackle toughness into your players with this tackling from the front, side and back session! Build their knowledge of the benefits of tackling and how different type of tackle can determine the way the phase plays out. learn more |
Maul Development: Create, Secure and Defend a Maul
Use it, and not lose it! Create, secure and defend a maul with this session for a successful season. learn more |
Welcome back session - Pre-season build up
Blow away the cobwebs. Use these conditioned games in your pre-season build up to prepare players for contact and refresh their long-distance passing learn more |
Handling and Support Play for More Effective Attacks
Burst through defensive lines with this attacking passing and handling plan - designed to sharpen your players' support running in the attack learn more |
Lineout Logistics
Don't get pipped to the pass - teach your players to jump and lift safely to help them become masters of the lineout! learn more |
Starting to coach the Drift Defence
Teach your players how to defend when they're on the receiving end of an overload and get them drifting like a pro! learn more |
Pre-season rugby power and conditioning - Legs
Legs are everything in rugby, so make sure you put the time in ahead of your first games of the season with this pre-season fitness plan learn more |
Fun Tag Session! - Passing, Evasion and Running
Refresh your players' basics with this fun selection of core skill drills and mini-games learn more |
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Chop Them Down - Tackling Low
Get your players chopping down their opponents and build a formidable defence. The focus of this session is to get your players tackling low, with their head in the right position and creating a ring of steel around the ball carriers legs. learn more |
Contact: Rucking technical session
Master the ?Smash? and the ?Roll? rucking technique so that when the pressure is on and a clear decision needs to be made, clearing the ruck becomes second nature to your players. learn more |
Ball Handling - Generating Power in the Pass
Take the tick out of your players' passing so that they can pass more efficiently, with more POWER and keep the opposition guessing for longer learn more |
Jackal at the Tackle - Technique and Confidence Session
Can your players tackle and jackal? Use this session to introduce your players to the jackal and improve their technique in 1v1 and game situations learn more |
Improving Rucking Technique
React the quicker and get on the front foot in attack with this session, by improving their rucking technique! learn more |
Confidence in Contact: part 1
Help your players get over their fears and watch them gain confidence in contact! learn more |
Heads up Rugby - Think fast
Attack the space! Develop your players' speed, reaction and decision making to improve their ability to get through holes in defences. learn more |
Performing when tired - Endurance Running session
Find out if your team can drive out a difficult win! Work your team hard and test their match-skills when tired! learn more |
Developing Invasive Attacking Skills!
Improve your players decision making to help them recognise where the space will develop and how they can maximise their success when they create the space, either by going into contact and offloading, or passing before the tackle. learn more |
Pre-season Burner
Are you up to it physically yet? Really feel the burn with this session and push your team hard! You will really feel the benefits after! learn more |
3. Pass / Support and Decision Making
Teach your players to run with depth and when they should pass to their support players to improve their attacking play and evade the opposition's defence learn more |
4. Decision Making
Things are about to get a lot tougher in this penultimate tag session - more defenders mean more decisions for your attackers - can they think fast enough to find the space? learn more |
Fitness and Handling Skills - Refresher Session
Work on their speed and stamina in this passing and receiving recap session - designed to get your players spreading their fingers for maximum passing control learn more |
Defensive blowout - Fitness games session
Banish dull fitness exercises with.this competitive and physically demanding session - working on tacking, fitness and players' ability to close down space learn more |
Pre-season Contact Build-Up
After a long off season period it's important to carefully ease your players back into contact - use this session to get your players tackling again in a safe and injury-free environment learn more |
Running Lines and Fixing Defenders
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 learn more |
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Coaching the Drift Defence
Get your players thinking their way through this session, focussing on Drift Defence when the opposition have an overlap on the outside. learn more |
Pass to Glory
Get your team passing to glory with this session, improving their movement, technique and communication learn more |
Scrum / Lineouts for beginners
Keep your players safe! Review the basics, coach the key points of these two important skills and give players plenty of time to learn and improve learn more |
2. Passing, Running and Decision Making
Continue to build on the skills covered in the previous session and teach your attackers to take advantage of the overload and make the right decisions with the ball learn more |
Rugby Fitness, Strength and Endurance
Make sure your players don't run out of steam with this Rugby Fitness session, working on their strength and endurance learn more |
Quick Hands! Sharp Handling & Attacking Skills
Make sure your players are running hard and straight in attack to draw in defenders before feeding their teammate into the space. learn more |
Attacking part 1
It?s all about points scoring with this session. Encourage your players to continually offer support to develop fine techniques to attack with crisp plays. learn more |
The breakdown: Turning the Ball Over - Part one
Hard work doesn't stop! Teach your players to get back to their feet quickly and compete to win the turnover learn more |
Using the Overlap
Make sure your players support their team-mates with this session, by using the overlap in attack learn more |
Developing young players confidence in tackling and contact
After building up some preseason contact resilience, it?s time to refine players tackling techniques to build their confidence as players go into contact. Focus on the technique and develop their willingness to go into tackles properly to improve success rate and reduce chances of injury. learn more |
Quick Ruck for Quick Ball
Quick rucking that produces quick ball is the first step towards a dangerous attacking side. Use this session to get your team rucking quickly, efficiently and effectively! learn more |
Ruck to Success: Improving speed at the breakdown
Improve your players' speed and drive at the breakdown to help them win the contest with this powerful ruck skills session learn more |
Developing Correct Contact Habits
Ingrain correct techniques and habits into your players with this session as we focus on tackling and rucking skills. learn more |
Forwards and Backs Skills
Make sure your forwards and backs have the skills needed in Rugby with this session, improving areas such as the punt kick and scrum! learn more |
Guard the Ruck - Organisation in Defence
High tempo defending and handling plan. Improve your rugby players' communication, organisation and line speed for a more solid backline learn more |
5. Tag Games Session
What better way to cover all the skills we've previously worked on (including handling, passing and decision making) than with a fun games session? learn more |
Coaching the Blitz Defence
Develop the aggressive Blitz defending style in you game and don’t let the opposition get comfortable on the ball with this session. learn more |
Position Specific Speed Training
Get your team the fastest and most agile out there. As the season deepens, we all need to stay on top of our game; make sure every position is covered with this intense drill. learn more |
Attack, attack, attack: Finding space and exploiting it
Improve how your team exploit mis-matches in the opposition's defence to get them creating more try-scoring opportunities with this attacking skills session learn more |
Tag Rugby: Learning to Evade Contact through Tag Games
Improve your junior players' attacking footwork with this fun and simple to set-up evasion games session learn more |
Sevens Speed Session
Attack the ball with speed and practice operating at pace with this week's foot-speed and handling skills session learn more |
1. Running and Passing/ Support
Coaching your first tag rugby session? Look no further than this simple and fun drills and games session to get your players passing, running and thinking - on and off the ball! learn more |
Support, Support, Support
Don't let your players stand still! Use this plan to develop your side's support play and continuity learn more |
Ruck through the Gate
Teach your team to ruck safely, effectively and quickly. By going 'through the gate' you'll avoid giving away penalties and encourage better binding learn more |
Defensive Line Speed, Organisation and Ruck Defence
Improve your team's understanding and performance when defending at the ruck - teaching them to defend as an aggressive, loud and confident unit learn more |
4 drills to eliminate bad passing habits
Eliminate those bad passing passing habits and make the good ones stick with this focused plan! learn more |
Junior Tag - Fun passing and fast hands session
A fun tag session, perfect junior and senior players alike to work on their speedy running with depth and passing to your team-mates! learn more |
Decision making under pressure
Test how your players respond to finding space and passing under pressure, as we move forward with the Rugby season. learn more |
Pre Season: Contact Conditioning and Skills
As the start of the season nears, continue to build your players resilience to contact and ensure they?re up to speed with their physical conditioning with this demanding session. learn more |
Establishing Depth and Pace
Use this plan to get your players attacking with <strong>depth</strong> and hitting the ball with <strong>pace</strong> to improve your side's running lines! learn more |
Contact Work - Bounce, Jackal, Fire
Contest for every ball and cause a turnover with this session by focussing on both defensive and attacking breakdowns. Work on the jackal and bounce in defence and attack at break down with the smash and crocodile roll. learn more |
Improving your Passing Skills
Get your players passing accurately and with variety in this session learn more |
Developing Handling Skills
Get your players handling skills super sharp so that no loose balls are given up. Gradually build up pressure to test their handling ability when confronted with defence. learn more |
Developing offloading and 2nd wave defence
Here's a bumper session that covers two crucial elements of the game - it's not one to be missed. Click through below and try it with your squad tonight learn more |
Tackle and Defence
Make the tackle and build a rock solid defence with this defensive session! learn more |
Skill Drills!
Work on your player's individual skills with this session, with a variety of fun drills! learn more |
Kicking fun for beginners - Perfecting the Kick
Bring back fun to your training! Teach your U10-U14s to kick intelligently from the hand. With fun games that work on your players' grubber, punt and box kicking ability. learn more |
Start of season rugby skills refresher
Basic skills training can be a chore, so use this plan to improve your team's overall performance, in preparation for the start of the new season learn more |
Sevens - Options in the Attack
3 simple options to improve your players' decision-making in the attack and get them past opponents gain line! learn more |
Senior Session - Line Out Pod Exercises
Skills and technique session, focusing on the lift in the line out! learn more |


