Rugby: Uneven teams - Ball retention

Description

Full contact with refereed rucks.

Teams have an uneven number of players e.g 9v7

Coaching points

Looking for players to put in to practise techniques learnt from previous Breakout

Overloaded team

Ensure we get correct numbers to the breakdown - temptation may be to think about building overlap before we have secured the ruck, so we must make sure that we source the ruck first. The overlap will come

Underloaded Team

Emphasis on work rate - to ensure we get enough people to each breakdown players may be forced to 'DOUBLE RUCK'

Make sure we are willing to do the unselfish work