Blue: O Red: D -D knee tackles O-Other D "hunter" comes in to poach the ball, clear the ruck, or can decide to stay on the line to hold D line-Other O will start on certain color cone (as deisgnated by coach) and can only leave cone once knee tackle has been made to ground-Other O will come to support by trying to clear out D from ruck
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