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Match Related Drills

The fun and challenging rugby drills and games in this category below recreate realistic attacking and defending scenarios, similar to those your play...

Sevens Drills

The Sevens drills below to sharpen your players' rugby skills such as quick hands, speed evasion and passing under pressure before moving on to develo...

Tackling Drills

All players need to be able to tackle. Tackling is how a player physically stops an opponent from moving forward with the ball. It's a vital aspect of...

Fending Off - Strong Hands

category: Off-Loads

Rugby Fending Off - Strong Hands Off Loads Line of defenders - 5m apart in staggered formation tackle shield. Individual players move down the line, ...

2 Vs 1 Gauntlet

category: Decision-making

Rugby 2 vs 1 Gauntlet Decision making Set up two 1m wide gates of cones (green and red) either side of a feeder, with a line of attackers opposite (5...

Offloading Channel

category: Off-Loads

Rugby Offloading channel Off Loads Groups of 10+ Ball Bibs. In 5m Channel have 4 defenders stood one behind eachother 5m apart. Have 4 defenders stoo...

Offload Central

category: Off-Loads

Rugby Offload central Off Loads Set Up Small 10 x 10m grid - 1/3rd of group on knees - 1/3rd with ball - 1/3rd supporting Players move around grid - ...

Offloading Technique

category: Off-Loads

Rugby Offloading technique Off Loads Ball Groups of 3+ 2 attackers line up opposite a defender. The defender makes a low leg tackle on the atttacker.

Diamond Shape Supporting Lines

category: Off-Loads

Rugby Diamond shape supporting lines Off Loads This is an exercise for continuity and support for attacking play Lay ... Fend off the challenge Drill...

2 Vs 1 - With Running Support

category: Off-Loads

Rugby 2 vs 1 - with running support Off Loads The lead attacker runs straight at the defender, attacking either the space on the left or the right be...

Grip Game For Offloads

category: Off-Loads

Rugby Grip Game For Offloads Off Loads This is a fun warm up game for the whole team to be involved in Players are ... Fend off the challenge Drill ...

Offloading Behind The Defender

category: Off-Loads

Rugby Offloading Behind the Defender Off Loads The ball carrier runs towards the defender and attracts the tackle. After contact, the player turns to...

On Your Back - Rolling Pass

category: Off-Loads

Rugby On your back - rolling pass Off Loads Set Up Between 3 to 15 players - 1 to 4 ration of ball to players - players spaced no more than 5m apart ...

1 Vs 2

category: Handling

• The aim of the drill is to develop ball carrying in a contact zone.

10 Pass Game

category: Warm-Up

• 2 teams
• Bibs
• Balls

One team must try and complete 10 passes in a small grid.

When the player has t...

1V1 Tackle Grid

category: Contact-Skills

• Small playing area, for 1 v 1 tackling.
• Players line up in two lines adjacent to the coned area.
• Coach shouts go and the front...

1V1 Tackle Grid

category: Tackling

• Small playing area, for 1 v 1 tackling.
• Players line up in two lines adjacent to the coned area.
• Coach shouts go and the front...

2 V 1 Around The Corner

category: Decision-making

• The aim of the drill is to develop handling in a short space.

2 V 1 Drawing The Defender

category: Decision-making

• One attacking team and one defending team.
• Exercise focused on decision making when in a 2 v 1 situation.
• Each team lines up e...

2 Vs 2 Linebreak Scenario

category: Agility-Running-Skills

Here we are re-creating a 2 vs 2 scenario which we might find on the field. The aim is to put players under the same conditions which they would po...

3 Man Tackle Grid.

category: Defensive-Patterns

• Groups of 12+
• Bibs
• Balls
• Cones

Get all players ot get into teams of 3.

Select one of the...

3 Man Tackle Grid.

category: Tackling

• Groups of 12+
• Bibs
• Balls
• Cones

Get all players ot get into teams of 3.

Select one of the...

3 Touch Kick

category: Warm-Up

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 followin...

3 V 2 Positioning

category: Decision-making

• The aim of the drill is to develop handling in a short space.

3 V 2 Positioning

category: Decision-making

• The aim of the drill is to develop handling in a short space.

3 Vs 2 Reload

category: Decision-making

• The aim of the drill is to develop players reload speed and positioning.

Alignment - Running As A Group

category: Agility-Running-Skills

Working in groups of up to 4, players spaced approximately 4-5 metres apart.

Players jog to the 1st cone then jog backwards to the start line...

Another Defender Bites The Dust

category: Warm-Up

• Normal laws of rugby apply; a knock on etc. results in a turn over.
• The attacking team gets unlimited touches.
• A player is ...

Attack From Turnover

category: Match-Related

• 2 Teams
• Ball
• Tackle Bags

3 Tackle bags are in a break down formation. With one player from the o...

Choke Tackle Progression

category: Contact-Skills

• 5 stage progression session.
• Bibs.
• Balls
• Cones.

1. Warm up - Wrestle

Choke Tackle Progression

category: Tackling

• 5 stage progression session.
• Bibs.
• Balls
• Cones.

1. Warm up - Wrestle

Conditioned Game - Breakdown Technique.

category: Contact-Skills

• 30 + players - Teams of 10/13
• Bibs
• Balls

1. Shoulders on - low intensity

Should...

Contact Zones

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

Set up:

8 defending players Tackle Suits, one ball carrier and four support players.

Corner Line Tag

category: Tag-Rugby

The aim is that when the coach signals the start the defending players will spread across to the other side of the field quickly and defend the ent...

Defence - Swimming In Twos

category: Defensive-Patterns

2 defenders work together to force 5 players to pass and work them towards touch.

The golden rule is for them to keep their spacing even, ens...

Defending in Threes

Set up 4 grids of about 8-10m by 5m.

3 players start on the first grid, working from one end to the other, covering the 5m distance.

Defending In Threes

category: Defensive-Patterns

Set up 4 grids of about 8-10m by 5m.

3 players start on the first grid, working from one end to the other, covering the 5m distance.

Defending in Threes

Set up 4 grids of about 8-10m by 5m.

3 players start on the first grid, working from one end to the other, covering the 5m distance.

Defense, Drift And Blitz

category: School

• Excellent drill to put defenders in game situations and having to make decisions.
• Defenders go from defending one side into t...

Defensive Systems - Structure Progression.

category: Defensive-Patterns

1. Defensive Organisation

4 Defenders line up on the the cones.

When coach goes to pass the ball, when han...

Drop Out Touch.

category: Match-Related

• 2 Teams
• Attackign and defensive focus.

Normal game of touch rugby, however whenever the defender touches an attacker...

Drop Out Touch.

category: Warm-Up

• 2 Teams
• Attackign and defensive focus.

Normal game of touch rugby, however whenever the defender touches an attacker...

Flat Defence

category: Defensive-Patterns

Players line up together along the line of the 1st set of cones.

On the signal of the coach all the players advance to the 3rd set of cones ...

Kicking Switch

category: Passing

3 grids: 10x30

Number of players: (up to 14)

Number of balls: start with 2 (add balls depending on age and ability of players).

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Last 15 Defence Drill

category: Defensive-Patterns

A drill to practice defending in wide channels.

Set up a grid that is 40m wide and 20m long, with the 40m divided into a 25m channel (red to ...

Link Touch

category: Match-Related

• Set up as a standard game of touch rugby, with two teams. The playing area should be wide and not too long.
• Every touch tackle the def...

Offloading Touch Game.

category: School

• Develops lines of support, vision, footwork and offloading.
• If a player is touched, he must go to the floor and off load.&nbs...

Offside From Kicker

category: Defensive-Patterns

Drill to practice defensive organisation when the kicker must put their teammates onside.

Set up a grid roughly 30m long and 30m wide.

...

Pressure Ball

category: Warm-Up

Make sure your warm-up area is marked out before the players arrive.

• Depending on the number of players you have at training, mark out...

Ram Raid

category: Maul

This game is designed to teach the players to work together to drive a maul forward and keep control of the ball.

• Set Up a field appro...

React To Space And Attack

category: Backs-Moves

5 players start on a straight line of cones about 5m apart. 10m away there are 5 more cones. Two of the 5 cones are blue, and two are red, and the ...

Reload Rucking

category: Ruck

Set up two defenders holding hit shields opposite two even lines of players.

The ball starts with the first man in one of the lines, he runs ...

Ruck - Coming Through The Gate 1.

category: Ruck

4 blue players must try and defend with shields two gates from the attacking red team.

The ball carrying player must meet the defending play...

Ruck Clearing Exercises

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

• Progressive exercises to improve clearing out at the ruck
• Lay a tackle tube on the floor with another tube on top, angled into the air...

Ruck, Ruck, And Ruck Again

category: Sevens

Tell your players the following.....

1. Both the pad and attacking units will jog within the grid, the players in the attacking units don...

Rucking Rectangle

category: Ruck

Set up a rectangle (roughly 5m x 2m) with three attackers (blue) and three defenders (red) on opposite sides.

The attacker in the middle has ...

Rugby Gaelic Football

category: Sevens

Tell the players the following laws.......

1. One team will be attacking, the ball carrying team. The other will be a defending team.

Rugby Netball

category: Agility-Running-Skills

Drill to practice skills and creating space.

Set up a pitch (roughly 25m x 20m depending on age and number of players) with two scoring zones...

Scrum 2V1

category: Scrum

• Groups of 3.

- 1 player is active, 2 players are resisiting.

- Active player gets into scrumage position between...

Scrum 2V1

category: Warm-Up

• Groups of 3.

- 1 player is active, 2 players are resisiting.

- Active player gets into scrumage position between...

Space Invaders

category: Warm-Up

Keep your playing briefing, brief and tell the players the following laws.

• Both teams are in attack and both teams are in defence, at ...

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

Switch Over Attack

category: Passing

Drill to practice attacking organisational skills

Set up a grid roughly 20m wide and 20m long, with different coloured cones at one end and 5...

Tackle Practice

category: Tackling

Teams of 3 one team with ball.

Start with both teams on their own goal line.
Team with ball attempts to score
Defending team allowed...

Tackle Square 1V1

category: Tackling

Step 1: Both the attacking and defending players complete 2 chop tackles on the tackle sausages.

Step 2: The attacki...

Tackler Clear Out Game Play

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

• Two teams of five players each

• One attacking...

The Trinity

category: Sevens

• The exercise starts with the first attacking unit running around the bottom of the grid, as they do the first defending unit run around the t...

Waterfall Attack

category: Match-Related

The drill starts with 2 attackers in blue, standing behind one another, 5m from the 1st defender/attacker in red.

1. The blue players att...

Zoom - Cruse - Zoom

category: Sevens

• It's important that the defence does the following......

1. They have numbers, so press up fast but.....
2. Slow down ...

Best rugby fends and hand off!! [part 1]

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Learn the skills - the fend

Learn the Skills of Rugby League Some the NRL's All Stars show you how to perform the skills of Rugby League.

Rugby's best bumps and huge handoffs!

Compilation of all the best bumps and handoffs in rugby! I must state that in NO way, shape or form am I intending to infringe rights of the copyright...

Rugby skills | the hand-off & step.

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Rugby coach evasion 3 - fend off

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Fending practice for rugby league

A simple drill to allow players to practice their evasion and finding.

Best rugby fends and hand off [part 2]

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Rugby: how to bump off a defender/tackler

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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...

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!

Edge play and Defence Organisation

Get your defence organised with this session, making sure your players are communicating with one another

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.

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...

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

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!

Man-Marking - Defensive Alignment

Practice defending against overlapping players and get your back line communicating, taking responsibility for their man

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!

Setting up maul directly from a penalty

U8s standing offside

U8s staying on side and use of space

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

Positional awareness for Wingers and Centres?

Outside center defense

U11 kick off/ knock on.

Staying onside games/drills for under 8s tag rugby

How to cope Pressure

Defence System Blitz/Drift

On going 2V1

Defender stays defending until they touch an attacker with the ball or intercepts the ball. defender can only move towards the attackers. Once they ha...

Scoring tries at the end zone

2 teamseach team has an ingoalthe aim of the game is score as many tires on the opponents ingoalThere is no defending involve so you are not allow to ...

Autosave 99064688

Defending the maul- first person hassles ball carrier players to encourage the maul towards sideline by putting numbers and hitting the open side ear...

Autosave 96804903

defenders are only allowed to move from left to right, defending by tap on hips with two hands

Attacking & defending in contact

BLUES

INSIDE CRASHNo10 runs at his opposite number steps out, committing the defender to tackle him, then pops the ball inside to winger.If doing this off a...

Fending Off Break Out Drill

Improving the abillity to fend someone off and keep attacking.1. Set up a 3m channel red, 2 green cones and 2 different coloured cones as seen in pict...

Double Tackle

To encourage players to bounce and keep defending. 1. Set up 5m x 10m grid with a tackle shield at one end and two coloured cones either end wher...

End Ball

2 teams one attacking one defending, pass ball between your team to reach the end of the pitch, to score 1 player must pass the ball to a 2nd player i...

Ball Stuck in the Mud

Stuck in the mud but with a minimum of 1 ball in the defending team to tag a player stuck the denfer must dab the ball on the attacker. - Defende...