Pass the ball through the backline to the wing as fast as possible.
Call hands when you see an overload or want to get the ball out wide.
Quick through the hands
Run straight up field, don't drift into the person on your outside's lane.
15 fill in outside of 13
11 come up for support on backside of field
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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.
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.
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.