5 man line out option.
Step 1: throw to middle or back jumper.
Step 2: Jumper brought to feet and ball passed to ripper. Ripper then passes to hooker running behind. Hooker runs around line out and attacks the gain line.
Step 3: Hooker has option to link with forward group or use them as dummy runners and use a pull back pass to 9 coming around behind the forwards. Hooker or 9 then passes to 10 and backs can use dummy runs or miss passes to get wide quickly.
If the line out is located inside or close to the 22m zone then run first 2 steps then set up player behind 10 for a drop goal.
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