Rugby: One Touch Off-Load

• Be brief when telling the players the laws of this game, it's important to get them moving quickly.
• This is not a contact game.
• Break your players into two teams, giving each team their own colour of bibs if necessary.
• One team goes to attack, and one to defense.
• Nominate a Scrum Half for each team.
• There is no kicking in this game.
• Normal laws of rugby apply e.g. a forward pass will result in the ball being turned over to the opposition.
• If an attacking player is touched: they must go to ground, present the ball, two of their teammates ruck over (staying over the ball), and the Scrum Half moves the ball for the next phase of attack.
• When you start playing this game make sure that the defense is employing your defensive pattern around the ruck. As the game develops consider telling the defenders that they must have one or more players at the back of the ruck, if they are not fast enough to do this - push them back 10 meters.
• Have attacking players do what they normally would at the ruck.
• Depending on your goals decide on the number of touches you wish to allow e.g. unlimited is not a bad option as mistakes will be made!
• Don't hesitate to shape the game to focus on your session goals, and let us and other coaches know what worked for you!

Tell the players: The player in possession of the ball when the coach blows their whistle has to run around the cone at the end of the grid to try and run the full length of the grid to score a try. The player from the opposition in line with the player that is running can try to stop the player scoring by running around the cone and tagging the runner before they reach the line.

• For tag rugby players, provide all players with tags. In other variations decide on touch or contact, depending on how warm the players are - and your training goals.
• Provide coaching on the go with encouraging feedback.

Split your players into two teams, giving one group of players a set of coloured bibs to set them apart, and quickly tell your players the following laws:

• Keep the law briefing, brief! Get your players moving as quickly as you can.
• Start this game with a rugby league style touch game - when touched a player can set the ball down, standing over the ball, another player moves the ball from the ground; restarting the attack. Make it a two touch turnover game to start with.
  
• Punish every mistake; forward passes, off sides, everything; be harsh. Each mistake results in a turn over.
• When the players get going; tell them that every touch will result in a turn over.
• On a turn over ball the defence must retreat 10 Meters.
• Be harsh; any touch and the attack lose the ball. Any law infringements; and the attack lose the ball.
• Referee the defense equally harshly; if they infringe; force them back 10 meters and allow the attack to continue.
• Change the laws as you see fit, and let us know the variations that work for you.

• Players start in the bottom right corner and on the command sprint as a group before doing 5 press ups.
• They advance as a defensive line, moving as fast as the slowest player.
• They never leave a player behind.
• They then side step (push as a defensive line) left to the next set of cones to do 5 sit ups before sprinting to do press ups. The group follow this routine until the end before the next group go.