The blue team starts at their side of the pitch in a line and the red defenders must stop them, The formation of the red team forces the blue team to become creative with their passes and find gaps in the defence, blue must get to the try line anyway possile with no forward passing and the centre blue player must run straight and in no other direction while all other players are free to move wherever inside of the marked out zone on the pitch
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