Nominate three or four players to start as taggers without a football. All other players carry a ball and run randomly in an area evading taggers. Taggers call out, ‘Touch!’ or ‘Yes!’ when they effect a touch on a runner. The tagged player must immediately perform a rollball (place their ball on the ground between their feet and step over it), and become a tagger. The tagger scoops the ball up and continues playing as a runner
in more ways than one
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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.
