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Play from scrum, no. 13 coming short...

Looking at developing a session through to and including the 3rd phase. Objective is play from scrum, with the 13 coming short. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Steve KingstonCoach, England

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Sportplan TeamAdministrator, United Kingdom

Hi Steve, we put this question out on our Facebook page and a coach answered by saying that the number 8 works harder, so it may be beneficial to use them instead.

Hope this helps!

Gary BrannanCoach, Scotland

Hi Steve, For first phase you could use No. 8 to 13 coming short then 10,12 wipe then 2nd phase 8,6,7 running as pod then3rd phase overload 12345 each phase would be best going same way.

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