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Defensive Patterns Drills

Defensive patterns are the positions your players take up when stopping opposition attacks. By developing your players knowledge of defensive pattern...

Kicking Drills

Use the kicking drills and videos below to develop your players' accuracy, technique, tactical awareness and skills so they know the right kick to use...

Off Loads Drills

An off load is when a tackled player passes the ball to a teammate before the tackle is completed. Use the 2v1 and tackle bag off load drills and vide...

zDefensive Patterns Drills

Defensive Touch

category: Warm-Up

Rugby Defensive Touch Warm Up 2 Teams. Half Pitch. Touch Game with conditions; Attacker once touched must go down, bounce back up and drive into .....

Defending In Threes

category: Defensive-Patterns

Coaching the Blitz Defence. Develop the aggressive Blitz defending style in you game and don’t let the opposition get comfortable on the ball ...

Blitz Defence

category: Defensive-Patterns

Rugby: Blitz Defence · Rugby Drill Demonstration · Description · Coaching points · Description · Coaching points.

Alcatraz: Jail Break

category: Warm-Up

This is a great warm-up for defensive and evasion sessions, or it might even be a warm-up that helps you reinforce coaching points made during a pr...

Attack Until Youre Tackled

category: Off-Loads

Playing area of 25m in length - adjust width to suit numbers- equal numbers in both teams

Full LEG tackles ONLY - ball carrier when tackled ...

Drift, Cover Or Blitz Touch

category: Match-Related

During a game of touch in a grid sized 30 x 30 metres the coach can choose to call blitz, drift or cover at any breakdow...

Join The Attack: 2V1 - 3V2 - 5V4

category: Warm-Up

• With a group of nine, tell two of them they are attackers - for now. The rest will be in defence.
• Allocate your defenders within the...

Leave No Man Behind

category: Agility-Running-Skills

• 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 ...

Leave No Man Behind

category: Warm-Up

• 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 ...

Speed Maul - Hands On!

category: Maul

Set up lines of defenders with pads aligned laterally across your working area. You can either have 1 line so the attacking players work once and...

Structure Defence

category: Defensive-Patterns

5 attackers - 10 defenders (or 2 to 1 ratio dependent on numbers)

Start slowly with ruck ball

Defenders cannot steal ball

Team Kicking Game

category: Kicking

Two teams of 2. 1 team attacking and the other team defenders.

Attacking team starts with a ball.

Aim of the game is for the attac...

The Zones Game

Use this fantastic drill in your next coaching session today and get ready to work your players hard

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

Defensive Dominance!

With this high intensity session, improve your team's defensive skills, whilst also working on their fitness

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

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

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 a...

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 i...

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.

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.

Defensive Principal: Competing Jackal!

Develop some tactical awareness and get your players recognising the value of slowing down the game with a jackal.

men to men defence drill

Getting a straight defensive line and speed

Tips on breaking through a defence line?

Advice on playing flyhalf

Defence, who must tackle a player cutting in?

attaxing and defence drills that helped you

When a scrum is awarded following an unsuccessful end to a maul

Positional awareness for Wingers and Centres?

How can I prevent an overlap?

U10s mini rugby small sided game variations

defensive game

defensive structure

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Ball carrier goes into contact staying on his feet until his support joins him. Support player calls him to ground. Ball carrier presents ball as supp...

2 Up-

10 to read defensive shape of centres. If they open up to chase 15, 13 is hot. If Def 13 holds, release 15.(Wipers, Red, Tip, 2)

Scramble

10 to read 12 & 13's defensive shape and play to 1 of 3 options. They fade and 13,15 are hot. He holds and 12 is hot. If open winger flattens...

Defensive Lines

Attacking decision making

Aimed at Centers.Designed to increase decision making abilities.When to kick when to fix a defender and when to take contactWork through various scena...

Basic Defensive structure

Defensive Line

Defensive sliding drill

Four Players will line up on the try line whilst the other players will line up behind one cone waiting to attack the try line.the defensive players a...