In this session we turn our attention to your deepest players, the shot stoppers and, when they have the ball at their stick, they're also the first line of attack.
To make sure your defence know how to pass calmly from the back to your forward players this session provides them with positional passing drills, especially chosen to breath confidence into your backs and to encourage them to think as they hit the ball up the pitch!
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