There are many ways for your team to get the ball to your forwards, however undeniably the fastest thing on the pitch is the ball and this reason when possible players should be looking up, trying to find that killer through pass to get the ball up-field as quickly as possible!
To get your players making killer passes, bypassing the other team's defence and creating shooting opportunities we start with a simple, but fast overlap and switch exercise. After this your players will be required to look up and try to find the best passing option if they want to win any of these fun conditioned games:
King Ball, Round the back,
End Zone and High Twos.
in more ways than one
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