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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...

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 Drill

category: Off-Loads

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

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...

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.

Offloading Out The Back

category: Off-Loads

Description. The aim of the exercise is to develop ball control and one hand offloading “out the back”. Coaching points. Ball Carrier look to get...

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.

Offloading Off The Floor

category: Off-Loads

Description. The aim of the exercise is to develop ball control and offloading off the floor. Coaching points. Ball Carrier runs with the ball then f...

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...

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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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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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!

men to men defence drill

Reduce Numbers in rucks

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

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 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...

Autosave 4319635

The scrum halve recieves the ball from the maul or scrum and starts his run to the right to fix the first defenter on the right side of the maul timin...