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It'S All Rip And Roll To Me!

category: Warm-Up

You may consider these two points when looking to challenge or build confidence. Keep your player briefing, brief! It's best not to have your players...

Grids

category: Handling

1) Run out (2 steps) turn and pop ball to a support player. 2) Run out (2 steps) turn and let support player take it out of your hands. 3) Run out - g...

Rugby Baseball

category: Passing

Split your team into two teams. One team will be up to bat/kick and the other team will field. The fielding team should take up positions that they fe...

Grids

category: Ball-handling

1) Run out (2 steps) turn and pop ball to a support player. 2) Run out (2 steps) turn and let support player take it out of your hands. 3) Run out - g...

Maul - Setup

category: Maul

If contact cannot be avoided take on own termsTurn and present the ballNo maul yet, this is still open play, so this ball must be protected quickly

Building The Loop

category: Passing

Tell your players the following..... One group of 4 players will be in defence. The other two groups of 4 will be in attack, they will attack one gro...

Quick Passing To Space

category: Sevens

Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following...... One of the attacking lines takes the ball. They simply attack, moving the b...

Miss Me Baby, One More Time!

category: Passing

We will begin with laterial passing down the line, just to get going. On your call we will start to miss the player in the middle, and pass to the ne...

Miss Me Baby, One More Time!

category: Passing

We will begin with laterial passing down the line, just to get going. On your call we will start to miss the player in the middle, and pass to the ne...

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...

Union Jack

category: Passing

Tell your players the following... On GO Player A passes to B who in turn passes to Player C. At the same time Player E passes F. Once the players ha...

Technical Work At The Breakdown

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

Players start face down, on the coach's whistle players get to their feet to contest the contact area. Red player 1 and the blue player should be clos...

Counter Ruck

category: Ruck

Condition the drill in favour of 1 team, in this case the blue team. All players lay on their fronts behind the tackle bags. On the coaches whistle, ...

Best kicks in rugby

The best kicks in rugby from union, league and sevens. Including chip kicks, cross-fields, grubbers, box kicks, drop-goals and conversions from Johnny...

How to play rugby : drop kick rugby rules & tips

Learn rules and tips on the drop kick technique in the game of rugby, as taught by a women's rugby expert in this free beginner rugby lesson video. Ex...

Total rugby - dave alred's kicking masterclass!

We ask Dave Alred, kicking coach to the stars, to help an amateur club player -- with interesting results.. Includes insights from Jonny Wilkinson.

Kick in general play, and bounce of ball

Unsuccessful end to a maul when catcher is held from a kick-off.

Second line of defence - Sweeper system

Introduce a sweeper system to save your team time and energy - whilst also working on forcing the attackers wide when defending!

Off Loading - Keep the ball alive!

Get your team playing with good attacking, open play in this Off Loading session with a difference!

Off Loading - Keep the ball alive!

Get your team playing with good attacking, open play in this Off Loading session with a difference!

Keep moving at the Ruck

Put your best foot forwards and drive, drive, drive the opposition back in this quick ball at the ruck technique session!

Releasing the Overlap

This session looks at once the overlap has been created, what do we do with it? Looking at ways to continue the attack by releasing the ball at the ri...

Man-Marking - Defensive Alignment

Get your back line communicating to pick up their opposite number - pressure and rush as a unit to force the error!

Line Out Pod Exercises

Rise above the rest - In this session we look at how you can get your line-out pods working more effectively.

Improving Support Play and Decision Making

Teach your players how to make quickly make decisions and scan defences for weaknesses in this week's support and decisive play session!