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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...

Kicking Drills

Use the kicking drills and videos below to develop your players' accuracy, technique, tactical awareness and skills so they know the right kick to use...

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 ...

Ruck Clear Out Drills

A ruck clear out involves players removing their opposition from the ruck to allow a quick pass to be made and avoid turnovers. The ruck and clear out...

Scrum Drills

A scrum involves eight players from each side locking heads with the opposition. It is a way of restarting play after the ball has gone out to touch, ...

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. ...

zTag Rugby Drills

Catch Me If You Can

category: Tag-Rugby

Rugby Catch me if you can Tag Rugby Up to 10 in a group. Each player should have a tag belt. Each player partners up with someone and then stand side...

Ball Tag

category: Warm-Up

Rugby Ball Tag Warm Up Make sure that you have your warm-up area marked out before your players arrive, it's important that you get them working righ...

Evasion Drill

category: Tag-Rugby

Rugby Evasion Drill Tag Rugby Drill to practice/teach evasion skills. Set up two lines of cones (green and red) with two lines of players (blue and r...

5 Vs 5

category: Tag-Rugby

Rugby 5 vs 5 Tag Rugby Pitch 20m x 20m. All players wearing tag belts Start the game with a free pass, defenders must be 7m back at the start Attacki...

Rugby Octopus

category: Tag-Rugby

Rugby Rugby Octopus 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...

Keep Ball

category: Tag-Rugby

Rugby Keep Ball Tag Rugby Players work in groups of 5 in a grid 10m x 10m, with 1 Ball per group. 4 Players work as a team to make 10 passes. The def...

Warm Up - Bulldog Touch

category: Tag-Rugby

Rugby Warm up - Bulldog Touch Tag Rugby 2 Catchers. Everyone else Runners. This is a warm up game that is used to raise the heart rates of the childr...

Single Tag Rugby

category: Tackling

Coaching points. Once players have grasped the game of single tag rugby and are successful, progress the session to double Tag rugby. read more ...

Find The Space

category: Tag-Rugby

Rugby Find The Space Tag Rugby Make one large 20m x 20m grid. Players work individually and must run in any direction in the grid, trying to avoid co...

Lesson 5 Set Up

category: Tag-Rugby

Tag Rugby Lesson 5 Pitch Layout Set out the grid as shown 4 x Rugby Balls 12 x Tag Belts 3 x Yellow Cones Additional Equipment Req. 20 metres 5 m Ins...

Dont Get Tagged

category: Tackling

Teams of 3 against 1 Defender.

The team of 3 start running and have to try and get to the other side. If the defender tags them they have t...

Introduction To Ruck

category: Ruck

In small teams, play a modified game where if the ball carrier is touched on the shorts with both hands of a defender, the ball carrier must go to ...

Non-Stop Rugby

category: Tag-Rugby

Play 5 v 3.

The aim of the game is for teams with unequal number of players to defend and attack. Possesion is changed if one of the follo...

Simple Passing Grid

category: Passing

• Brief your players one what you would like them to do.
• Start the activity by having all players pass the ball around the grid in any...

Speed Pass

category: Agility-Running-Skills

8 in each group.

6 in the playing area and 2 outside it.

The six in the playing area play a 4 v 2 against each other trying to pass...

Speed Pass

category: Tag-Rugby

8 in each group.

6 in the playing area and 2 outside it.

The six in the playing area play a 4 v 2 against each other trying to pass...

Tag Maul Game

category: Maul

Groups of 10.

5 v 5 Match.

Players start the game and after each touch the touched player must simulate a MAUL by turning and setti...

Team Of 5 V 1 V 3 V 1

category: Tag-Rugby

Change the shape of the defenders. Instead of a single line, one behind the other, try 1 then 3 then 1 or 1 2 2.

The Three S Drill (Speed, Swerve And Sidestep)

category: Agility-Running-Skills

Coach calls a number, that player acts as a defender. Attacker tries to score without being tagged using one of the three S (Speed, Swerve, and Sid...

Union Jack

category: Passing

Tell your players the following...

1. On GO Player A passes to B who in turn passes to Player C. At the same time Player E passes F.
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Handling and Passing - working under pressure

Fast hands and a cool head will be needed in this physically testing pressure passing session - are your players up to the challenge?

Attacking Flair - Kicking and Catching

Attack with flair! Improve your player's kicking with this kicking and catching session

Developing the Maul

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

Developing Invasive Attacking Skills!

Improve your players decision making to help them recognise where the space will develop and how they can maximise their success when they create the ...

Confidence in Contact: part 1

Help your players get over their fears and watch them gain confidence in contact!

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

Attacking Principle: Improving Decision Making and Support Play

Develop an understanding between players of where the support is and what the benefits are of providing it.

Fun Tag Session! - Passing, Evasion and Running

Refresh your players' basics with this fun selection of core skill drills and mini-games

Tag Rugby: Learning to Evade Contact through Tag Games

Improve your junior players' attacking footwork with this fun and simple to set-up evasion games session

Backline Scanning - Reacting to the unknown!

Don't let your team succumb to static rugby - instead teach them to look up and play against what's in front of them

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

Help - what are the rules of tag rugby?

U8s standing offside

Try Conversions training

U8s staying on side and use of space

U8 tag rugby team selection

U8 session plan for 2 hours

struggle with the tackle during games

Under 6's rugby warm ups and drills.

U7 and u8s tag rugby with low numbers

2vs 1

2 players have to try to score in the ingoal.They can get touch max 3 timesEverytime they get touch they need to pass the ballRun forwardPass after ge...

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Play matches max. 5vs 5learning to run forwarsupport each other and pass when tag.

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...

Tag Team

Players each have a ball and start in the inner square. BOTH HANDS hold the ball.2 chasers outside of the inner square, stand on the line of the outer...

3 on 2

The blue team run to the first Tag box.The ball carrier will try to evade the defender in that box. If they are tagged they must pass the ball to a pl...

Jeu dans la Défense 2vs1 Passe Après Contact

L'attaquant va au contact du défenseurLe défenseur plaque sous la tailleLe porteur de balle fait la passe aprés contact au soutien sui arriv...

Catch me if you can

The first player runs and picks up the ball on the coaches whistle. The 2nd player then goes as soon as the ball has been picked up and tries to tag t...

Tag Rugby Offside

An example of the common situation in tag rugby. A tackle is made and there's a player (or players) offside leading to an illegal intercept of th...

Wheel Tag

Wheel Tag - One tagger has to run round the circle to tag the nominated player.Team work and communication is needed to prevent the tagger from catchi...

Chain Tag