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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...

Man To Man

category: Defensive-Patterns

3 attackers and 2 defenders. The scrum half passes to the first receiver of group of 3 attackers. The 3 attacking players must then pass the ball down...

Scrum Half - Shotgun Alley

category: Sevens

Explain to thescrum halfs that they are to attempt to pass the ball at the attackers and attempt to hit them below the shoulders. It won't be a compl...

Drift Defence

category: Defensive-Patterns

3 attacks - 2 defenders Scrum half passes to first receiver of group of 3 3 attack 2 passing ball down line

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 Attackers recycle ball D...

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 (20 meters...

Drift Defence

category: Defensive-Patterns

4 Tackle Bags. 10 Cones and 1 Ball. 10m x 30m. The first player in the line begins with the ball. As he approaches the first cone and passes to playe...

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. The aim is to st...

Quick Hands - Warm Up

category: Warm-Up

Within a group there are two groups of 4 attackers and one chaser/scrum half. At the middle point, marked by a cones, the scrum half moves the ball t...

Building The Switch Pass

category: Passing

Keep your player briefing short and tell your players the following.... 3 attackers line up on the first three cones, the rest fall in behind. One at...

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 following l...

Rugby League - Touch Rugby Variation

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 following l...

Continuous Passing Onto Cones

category: Passing

Players line up at least 2 or 3 behind a cone. The ball starts at one end with the player running up to the cone in front of him and passing to the...

Zig Zag Relay

category: Passing

Tell the players to do the following...... The player with the ball passes to the next player and follows the direction of the ball. The chasing or s...

2 Vs 1

category: Decision-making

Coach starts with the ball and can throw the ball to either one of the outside players of the 3 players ready to play. The player in the middle always...

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 line, moving as f...

Stuck In The Mud

category: Practices-for-Juniors

Within a set playing area split your players into two groups - catchers and runners. It's the catcher's job to tag as many runners as possible. Once a...

Quick Hands

category: Passing

Tell your players the following..... The first player runs out with the ball to the first set of cones and passes the ball to the second player. The ...

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 previ...

Developing The Spin

category: Passing

Using just one hand they should pass the ball to each other, spinning the ball. They should make 10 passes on one hand, and then 10 passes on the opp...

L-Shaped Passing

category: Passing

Lets get the ball and the players moving with lateral passing through the hands. Each training area only needs one ball, and that ball should start wi...

3 Second Touch - Touch Rugby Variation

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 following l...

Star Wars

category: Passing

The rest of the players are told to stand at one end of the field (they are the Space Pirates). The space police want to try and blow up the space pi...

Three Blind Mice - Tag Warm-Up

category: Warm-Up

Tell the players that one group is the Mice and that mice have tails, their tags. The other group is not happy with the Mice, they are the Farmers Wi...

Rugby Octopus

category: Tag-Rugby

The aim of this game is to increase player defence and decision making. Set up a field about 15m long by 10m wide. Keep it narrow to give he defender...

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