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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...

3 Second 3 Player Touch

category: Sevens

Tell your players the following.....

1. This game is about support and ensuring that support is close to the ball carrier.
2. This ...

A Cheeky Little Number

category: Passing

Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......

1. Let's just get the ball moving down the line. Give the playe...

A Cheeky Little Number

category: Sevens

Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......

1. Let's just get the ball moving down the line. Give the playe...

Corner Line Tag

category: Tag-Rugby

The aim is that when the coach signals the start the defending players will spread across to the other side of the field quickly and defend the ent...

Defense Vs Attack Drill

category: School

• The aim is to the defensive situation to keep changing the defence gets used to drifting or pressing.
• The aim of the attack i...

Developing The Spin

category: Passing

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

Flip It

category: Warm-Up

• Be brief when telling the players the laws of this game, it's important to ge...

Jog - Lock And Load

category: Passing

Tell your players the following:

1. Using just one hand they should pass the ball to each other, spinning the ball.
2. They will co...

Join The Attack: 2V1 - 3V2 - 5V4

category: Warm-Up

• With a group of nine, tell two of them they are attackers - for now. The rest will be in defence.
• Allocate your defenders within the...

Maul Touch

category: Warm-Up

• Be brief when telling the players the laws of this game, it's important to get them moving quickly.
• This is not a...

One Touch Ruck

category: Warm-Up

• Be brief when telling the players the laws of this game, it's important to get them moving quickly.
• This is not a contact game.
...

Pass And Support

category: Passing

Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......

1. Lets just get the ball moving down the line. Give the player...

Pass And Support

category: Sevens

Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......

1. Lets just get the ball moving down the line. Give the player...

Passing In Contact

category: Passing

• Keep your player briefing, brief!
• Tell you players the following......

1. Players will attack in groups of 2, so we...

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 ...

Ram Raid

category: Maul

This game is designed to teach the players to work together to drive a maul forward and keep control of the ball.

• Set Up a field appro...

Ruck - Press Up - Part 2

category: Sevens

Tell the players the following......

1. The first group of 3 go first.
2. The first player hits in on the bag with their shoulder, ...

Rucking With 4 Corners

category: School

• Excellent way to involve large numbers and fitness.
• Develops understanding of working hard when on the floor, communication a...

Rugby Rounders

category: Tag-Rugby

Split group into 2 - Batters and fielders.

Setup as shown above.

Each batsman will either pass or throw the ball into the fielding ...

Scoring Zones

category: Warm-Up

• Be brief when telling the players the laws of this game, it's important to get them moving quickly.
• This is not a contact game.
...

Serious Fun

category: Passing

• Tell your players the following, keeping your player briefing, brief! It's vital to get the players moving as quickly as possible.

...

Striking The Ball

category: Scrum

Introducing the skill of 'striking' for the ball.

Hooker against a tackle pad, with the scrum half punting in the ball from the left hand si...

Support Lines

category: Decision-making

• The aim of the drill is to develop players understanding of support lines

The Atom Game

category: 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 know the size of the ...

The Berlin Wall

category: Warm-Up

• Tell the players that when you touch the shoulder of a player, they: have to go into the center of the circle, pick up the ball, and try to b...

Three Grids - Passing Alignment

category: School

Set up one small grid (5x5m), one medium grid (10x10m) and one large area (15x15m). Players work in groups of 3 with one ball.

Coach shouts ...

Understanding The Spin

category: Passing

• Tell them the following......

1. Using just one hand they should pass the ball to each other, spinning the ball.
2. Th...

Variety Of Passing

category: School

• Exercise get players to understand the changing amount of time they may have on the ball.
• Groups of 3 or 4
• pla...

Zoom - Cruse - Zoom

category: Sevens

• It's important that the defence does the following......

1. They have numbers, so press up fast but.....
2. Slow down ...

Rugby under 11's grand final highlights

Well done Border & Huntley what a great game of kids rugby to watch. I have to make special mention of the girls in the Border team, you girls sure ho...

Rugby coaching drills - introducing tackling to under 9s

Under the New Rules of Play, tackling is the only new skill to coach to under 9s. This should really help their development, given they don't have to ...

Irish rugby tv: ireland under-19s v japan under-19s highlights

The Ireland Under-19s, sponsored by PwC, hosted the touring Japan squad in sunny conditions at Donnybrook on Saturday, with 12 tries and 81 points sco...

My son will not run with the ball

Getting 9-10 year olds to spread the ball out wide

How to create a drill.

Do you offer packages for Schools/Clubs?

Drills with Lock sign

Trouble gettng the ball to our winger from first phase ball

Dropped catches from kicks at U11

U10's rugby and picking a ball up after the tackle

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

What is the U9s 2 second rule when placing ball post tackle?

Introduction to Handling and Unit Plays

Ensure your team are on track and work on Option Plays and Basic Skills

Developing Kicking Skills - the Punt Kick

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

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...

Using the Overlap

Make sure your players support their team-mates with this session, by using the overlap in attack

Developing Handling Skills

Develop your team's ball handling under pressure, giving you the best attack going forward!

Front Foot Attack - Improving Decision Making

Hesitation is the enemy in this conditioned games session - use this plan to improve your players' passing and offloading under pressure

Kicking Development: The Punt Kick

Perfect your players' punting to improve their ability kick for possession and territory with this Skill Development Session

Tackle and Defence

Make the tackle and build a rock solid defence with this defensive session!

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

Defensive Line Speed, Organisation and Ruck Defence

Improve your team's understanding and performance when defending at the ruck - teaching them to defend as an aggressive, loud and confident unit

Right side

DESCRIPTIONThe players attacking have to get in position in a row in front of the coachThe player that defendes has to get behind the coach.When the c...

10 min Catch & Pass

5 min screen pass: line of 3, middle man runs 'unders' deep support (behind bal carier) runs mis, gets ball straigthen up and pop to outside m...

Tackle Clinic break outAutosave 29477442

Basics of the tackle-Get two players out to demonstrate each stage as the kids hopefully give you the answers. head position, where should it be? chee...

Warm up - Rugby rounders - 15 mins

1 ball8 cones2 teams

Quick Rucking with Scrum Half progression

Tiering suggested to work in teams for understandingCan use less players for fitness - Minimum 7 - If 7 players last man stays out for ball carryRemem...

Sample Video

This video shows a clip taken from a rugby match. The quality of the video is good, allowing clear viewing, although it was filmed with out the ...

Bounce Pattern off 9.

- An exercise that helps players understand their role within our green pattern, and enables them to get themselves into effective positions by workin...

Heat ball

Divide the team into two groups.The team that starts with the ball have to make the highest number of passes without being intercepted by opponents.Wh...

Counter "WARM"

Early shift to 15 results in no hard drift and reasonable coverage of width. 15 gets on overs line, early shift to open winger which should result in ...

Flash Ball

When there is a lot of space on the wing call "FLASH" and pass the ball through the hands to the wing.1. Getting the person in space to...