Rugby: Middle Kick Off

Description

Middle Kick Off

Split Kick off

Coaching points

1. 3 defenders left of kicker 3 defenders right of kicker

2. slightly closer to each other in the middle and wider defenders hanging slightly to go into "Drift Mode" when ball is shifted left or right.

3. 1 Defender goes hard to contest the kick off and the other 2 defenders around cover the space around the ball.

4. sweeper after kick will hang slightly in behind defense line in case the ball get tapped back in that case sweeper should be in position to field ball. in case we dont get ball back sweeper drop into defensive position

5. defense line quickly up and set, ready and organized to defend next phase in the case we dont get the ball back from kick off