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Contact Skills Drills

A major part of rugby involves two or more players making physical contact with each other. Contact normally takes place during a tackle, lineout, scr...

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 ...

Practices for Juniors

The junior videos and drills are designed to introduce and teach youth players to the correct techniques and skills they will in rugby, in a safe and ...

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 ...

Rugby Netball

category: Warm-Up

Rugby Rugby Netball Warm Up Break your players into two teams. One team goes to attack, and one to defence. There is no kicking in this game. Normal ...

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...

Grip Games

category: Handling

Rugby Grip Games Handling Here are two games to improve your players grip on the ball: 1. Simple grip battle (0.00-0.14) Two players have one ball be...

Mini Game - Skills Game

category: Handling

In this game players try to keep possession and carry the ball over their opponent's line to score a try. Coaching points.

Team Kicking Game

category: Kicking

With a wealth of experience and as part of New Zealand's World Cup winning coaching team, Marg is ready to pass on her knowledge to answer your coach...

Keep The Ball Game

category: Passing

Rugby Keep The Ball Game Passing Tell your players the following: One group of two players will be defenders, you might want to give them bibs. The a...

Mini Game - Skills Game

category: Match-Related

In this game players try to keep possession and carry the ball over their opponent's line to score a try. Coaching points.

Game To Coach Depth

category: Match-Related

• Four attackers, two defenders in quite a small playing area - trying to find space.
• The aim is for each team of four to try to score a...

Game To Coach Depth

category: Sevens

• Four attackers, two defenders in quite a small playing area - trying to find space.
• The aim is for each team of four to try to score a...

Handling Starter Skill Games

category: Handling

These drills are perfect for players to work on there handling skills before a session starts.

The key is to challenge eachother and have fun...

Kick From Hands

category: Kicking

Kicking from hands requires the player to kick the ball before it bounces, unlike a drop kick. 1 ball, cones to give areas for scoring games etc.

Positioning, Passing And Supporting During Turnovers

category: Agility-Running-Skills

5 players in a group line up within touching distance of one another, and stand facing the coach who has a ball in his hand.

The coach then ...

Positioning, Passing And Supporting During Turnovers

category: Passing

5 players in a group line up within touching distance of one another, and stand facing the coach who has a ball in his hand.

The coach then ...

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!

Attack, attack, attack: Finding space and exploiting it

Improve how your team exploit mis-matches in the opposition's defence to get them creating more try-scoring opportunities with this attacking skills s...

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!

Understanding the importance of effective offloading to secure possession

Develop your team's decision making ability to recognise how and when to set up an offload to unlock the defence.

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

Rugby Fitness Drills and Games

Fitness is a vital part of getting to the line for the full 80. Work on your teams skills and technique whilst putting them under fatigue with a gruel...

Improving the length of pass

The ball travels faster than a running player, so stretch your opponents defence by developing your players' long pass.

Improving Attacking Kicking, Catching and Chasing

Improve your team's ability to attack from a kick with this kicking and catching games session - covering 3 key areas of your team's game

im coaching the under 6's how do i keep them interested?

what active coaching games can i use to coach the miss pass?

Under 10 - Pre Match Preparation

Does anyone know of an assessment for U10's

Can I and should I coach basic tackle skills to U8s?

First time coaching the U13s next season - any tips greatly appreciated!

Looking for drills to improve my U10's defending skills?

How can I stop kids bunching in games of tag?

Inclusive rugby - Any tips and advice from coaches who have experience coaching kids between 2-7 years and children with special needs

U8 session plan for 2 hours

Field based conditioning and movement training

Set up for 6 easy to use drills to improve Aerobic capacity, Anaerobic endurance and change of direction skills at speed.In and out runsAim: Impr...

Touch football game

A game of touch football there will be 6 players each side.they will follow normal touch rules. Make sure you are refereeing the games as if...

Athletics Tig games

Pre-season field based conditioning and movement training for rugby union

Outline for a simple but effective preseason conditioning programme, speed and C.O.D training.Testing300m shuttle testAim: To monitor player’s in...

Colored markers

Players line up chest on the ground and backs to the markers.The coach calls a marker (red,blue,yellow) and both the team have to sprint on that to pl...

Warm Up Games

Rugby Net BallBall can be passed in any directionNo running with the ballTry to get ball to player in score zoneonly attacker allowed in coned score z...

Rugby Wrestling Warm ups

Put your players into pairs of equal size/strength and then get pairs to number themselves 1 and 2.Play some wrestling games such as flipping the play...

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This game is all about spaccing to close up the games shifting the defensive line so its spaced out evenly.

Rugby - mid-space attack drill

Blue cone / Red cone reactions decision making rugby exercise. This drill is from Sportplan's library of 650 rugby drills, games and technique videos...

Team Shuttles

Various Passing Challenges-Simple jog to cone and pass to team mate.-Jog to cone and post ball for team mate to pick up-Team mate calls up or down for...