HOME Rugby Community

Greeks & Trojans

Great site and excellent drills. Easy to understand and apply in training....

Tyrone, Rugby Coach

DESCRIPTION

Pursuit and evasion game for U8s downwards.

Set up a pitch 20m x 15m or larger depending on numbers.Two equal teams, one in bibs if needed.. Each player wears a belt and 2 tags.

COACHING POINTS

Coach gives instructions to each team in turn as in Fig. 1.
If using as a warm up, these can be lunges, high-kicks, side-strides etc.
After a couple of goes each, coach calls on one team to attack. This team has to take prisoners from the opponents by removing a tag. Opponents have to avoid capture and reach the enemy camp. (Fig.2)
Repeat from opposite ends.
Once a player has lost both tags, they are 'dead' and come out of the game.
Winning team is last one to have players still alive.

PROGRESSIONS

Any player who takes a tag can add it to his own belt as an extra 'life'.
Any player who loses both tags becomes a 'turncloak' (traitor) - he lines up with his normal team, but then attacks when the enemy does, helping them tag his team-mates.

READ MORE

READ LESS

4537037

1009

SIGN UP NOW FOR FREE

search our library of 1100+ rugby drills
create professional rugby coaching plans
or access our tried and tested rugby plans

Rugby

STAY CONNECTED

in more ways than one

sportplan_netball

MORE Tag Rugby DRILLS

JOIN SPORTPLAN FOR FREE

search our library of 1100+ rugby drills
create your own professional coaching plans
or access our tried and tested plans

STAY CONNECTED

in more ways than one

sportplan_rugby

LATEST COACHING TRENDS

Rugby Rugby Trends The Community Tackle Height Law Is Live: Retraining Your Tacklers for 2026/27

The Community Tackle Height Law Is Live: Retraining Your Tacklers for 2026/27

World Rugby's lower tackle height is no longer a trial. It is law in community rugby from this season, and unions choose waist or base of the sternum. Here is how to retrain your defence.

August 2026

Sportplan Coaching

Rugby Rugby Trends Lower Tackles, Faster Rucks: Adapting Your Breakdown to the New Law

Lower Tackles, Faster Rucks: Adapting Your Breakdown to the New Law

Lower tackle heights leave the ball free for longer and change the breakdown contest. If your ruck work has not been updated this pre-season, you are coaching last season's game.

August 2026

Sportplan Coaching

Rugby Rugby Trends Rugby-Specific Pre-Season Conditioning: Fitness That Actually Transfers

Rugby-Specific Pre-Season Conditioning: Fitness That Actually Transfers

Long, lonely runs build lungs, not rugby players. Here's how to build a pre-season that puts fitness where the game needs it - with a ball in hand and a decision to make.

July 2026

Sportplan Coaching

VIEW ALL COACHING TRENDS