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Ball Presentation Drills

Ball presentation is how the ball-carrier makes the ball available to a teammate after they have been tackled. The ball presentation videos and drills...

Decision making Drills

Decision making determines what pass, run or tackle your player makes on the field. Making the right decision can be the difference between a try bein...

Defensive Patterns Drills

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

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...

Maul Drills

A maul is similar to a ruck but occurs when the ball is held up off the floor (in a player's hand). The maul drills, videos and mini games below will ...

Ruck Drills

A ruck occurs when the ball carrier is tackled and players from each side make contact over the ball which is on the ground (it differs from a maul wh...

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...

Tag Rugby Drills

Use the tag rugby drills and games (also referred to as touch rugby) to boost your junior players' passing, off-loading, and decision making ability. ...

Warm Up Drills

Warm up drills in rugby are important because they get your players' muscles ready for exercise and help to reduce the risk of injury. They're also a ...

10 Pass Game

category: Warm-Up

Rugby 10 Pass game Warm Up 2 teams Bibs Balls One team must try and complete 10 passes in a small grid. When the player has the ball in his hand he ...

Clapping Game

category: Passing

Rugby Clapping Game Passing Tell your players the following. Lets just get the ball moving clockwise for a while, just to get the ball moving through...

Bank Robbers

category: Warm-Up

Rugby Bank Robbers Warm Up Keep your player briefing, brief! Tell the players the following laws for this exercise..... Players must start the game b...

The Atom Game

category: Warm-Up

Rugby The Atom Game Warm Up Quickly tell the players that when you blow you whistle and shout Atom, you will also shout a number to let the players k...

Game To Coach Depth

category: Sevens

Rugby Game To Coach Depth Sevens Four attackers, two defenders in quite a small playing area - trying to find space. The aim is for each team of four...

Rugby Baseball

category: Sevens

The fielding team should take up positions that they feel will be advantageous to their game plan - don't worry too much about over coaching this - p...

Turn-Over Game

category: Sevens

Rugby Turn-Over Game Sevens Tell the players the following...... We are going to play a game, the 7 defenders will stay in defence throughout, and th...

Mini-Goal Game

category: Kicking

Rugby Mini-Goal Game Kicking Game to practice controlling the ball. Set up two goals (roughly 2m wide) opposite each other about 5m away (red cones -...

Team Kicking Game

category: Kicking

Rugby Team Kicking Game Kicking Two teams of 2. 1 team attacking and the other team defenders. Attacking team starts with a ball. Aim of the game is ...

123 Play Divots

category: Warm-Up

The Moles want to turn the cones onto their head, and the Green-keepers want the cones the right way up.

Let the kids play, you can start t...

All In Touch

category: Warm-Up

The following are the laws for this game:

• Equal number of defenders and attackers.
• Use bibs to identify both teams.

Ladder Pass

category: Warm-Up

• Have four players stand at the four cones, the other players, in their own running groups of four should, be behind them - ready to go when t...

Loaded Sevens: Touch

category: Sevens

Tell your players the following......

1. The team with 7 players will be in attack for the first half.
2. Normal 7 rules apply.

Pass Within A Channel

category: Passing

Tell the players the following.....

1. This is simple, just attack from the bottom and top of the grid at pace.
2. There can be two...

Ruck Clear Out Between Two Tackle Bags

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

2 people are on the tackle shields or 2 on each side about 5 metres apart facing each other, there is a ball carrier standing in the middle of the ...

Ruck Clear Out Between Two Tackle Bags

category: Tackling

2 people are on the tackle shields or 2 on each side about 5 metres apart facing each other, there is a ball carrier standing in the middle of the ...

Running Lines And Breakdown Continuity

category: Agility-Running-Skills

• A coach or scrum half feeds a ball carrier who should be running onto the ball.

Running Lines And Breakdown Continuity

category: Contact-Skills

• A coach or scrum half feeds a ball carrier who should be running onto the ball.

Running Lines And Breakdown Continuity

category: Match-Related

• A coach or scrum half feeds a ball carrier who should be running onto the ball.

Running Lines And Breakdown Continuity

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

• A coach or scrum half feeds a ball carrier who should be running onto the 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...

Target Kicking Long Game

category: Kicking

• The aim of the drill is to develop reactive long kicking game.

Traffic Lights Game

category: Passing

• Brief your players one what you would like the to do by telling them the following....

1. One of the players will stand outs...

Developing the Maul

Work on your team's maul technique with this session, improving their current ability to create, secure and defend the maul

Pre-season Burner 2

Get the team excited to be back together again. Pre-season?s going to be a battle, but go and make it fun with this burner!

Developing Kicking Skills - the Punt Kick

Make sure all of your players can kick the perfect Punt, with this kicking skills session

Pre-season Burner

Are you up to it physically yet? Really feel the burn with this session and push your team hard! You will really feel the benefits after!

Maintaining Possession

Maintain possession and go forward with confidence, with this attacking session

Support, Support, Support

Don't let your players stand still! Use this plan to develop your side's support play and continuity

Tackling Success - 1 to 1 and Double Tackling

Focus on technique to ensure your players tackle safely and powerfully, as well as looking at the progression from a 1-to-1 'fit' tackle to a positive...

Ruck to Success: Improving speed at the breakdown

Improve your players' speed and drive at the breakdown to help them win the contest with this powerful ruck skills session

Performing when tired - Endurance Running session

Find out if your team can drive out a difficult win! Work your team hard and test their match-skills when tired!

The Zones Game

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

factors affecting the game plan

Individual training during lockdown

confidence in the game

How can I overcome my child's fear of tackling?

Winter training; any ideas?

Tackling progression plan to improve confidence in tackles

Getting a straight defensive line and speed

Perfecting attack structure

Advice on playing flyhalf

Is there a U7s rugby union coaching plan for week by week

defensive game

Build Up Game

Around The World Game

Ruck - Clearing players at Breakdown

(a)Both teams start onTeam w/ ball player straddles tackle bag and defends ballOther player in and clears player out Clear out w/Roll(B)Use tackl...

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 ...

3 on 2

Players will play a 3 on 2 game/drill on a modified field.Focus on decision making of players. Help figure out positions.

Raider Game

2 teams take it in turns to send one player into the other teams half in an attempt to tag one of them and return untagged themselves. This practise c...

1v1 Grip Game

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Maul game to start- touch maul. In groups of 5-6 max. play touch game whereby player taking it into contact must turn and SH must rip the ball away/ ...

Mortal Combat Game