- Essentially 8 v 4
- Each team has a target player who must stay in the box
- Goal is scired once the ball reaches the target player
- Swaps target players regularly
- Wide players can move up and down the line but not into play
- Swap blue with red after 5 minutes
- Keeping posession is important
- Can use the target player as an option
- Don't all crowd the 1 area
- Use the wide player
- Who can switch play
- Progress to whoever passes to target player swaps with that player who then comes into play
- Progress to having 2 wide goals at each end and 4 v 4 in the middle
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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