Rugby: Realign To Attack A Broken Defence

Out in 4s - simple hands - When players reach the end they should turn left.

Group realigns around the cone and then use simple hands to finish.

You can put defenders into the second channel to increase the difficulty of this drill.

• Bags
• Balls 

2 attackers line up opposite 2 defenders with bosh bags. 

The coach delivers a ball into the attackers. 

The ball carrier aims to run an overs line - Outsid ehsoulder of first defdner, and attack the second defender.

The second attacker looks to leach on/latch on to the ball carrier pushing them through the contact area. 

Looking for a quick exstra few yards. 

The realignment and depth hands drill is a quick drill to focus the players in sharpening their alignment and depth before a session. You can spend as long or as short on this drill as you need. The aim of the drill is to develop the speed at which players realign themselves, to support their early hand-catch, quick and accurate transfer of the ball to a support player.

• Set a 5 cones 1.5 meter apart in straight line. This will mark where the players will start the drill from
• Set 4 cones at a diagonal in line with the starting cones from one edge. This will be the cones that the defending players need to retreat to before coming up to pressure the attacking players.
• The first attacking player needs to step back 1 meter and will receive the ball from the first defending player who has also stepped back 1 meter to his designated cone
• Divide the group into 4 attacking player and 5 defending players, there should be a free attacking player
• The ball starts with the defending player
• On the coaches call, all defending players need to work back to their designated cone and then come forward in a straight line to their opposite attacking player
• The attacking players set their own depth to ensure they have time to catch and pass effectively
• On the coaches call, the first defending player will move back to their cone, once they get to the cone they pass the ball to the first attacking player, and then the first defending player tries to put pressure on the first attacking player
• The attacking players try to get the ball to the 5th player without being ‘touched’ by a defending player

Tell your players the following.....

1. The attacking group will wait at the top of the training area until the coach calls the number of defenders.
2. On the call of 1, 2 or 3 - they should attack - aiming to score a try at the opposite end of the grid.
3. The defenders will go in the numbers called. If the coach calls 1, then defender 1 goes - the rest do not. If the coach calls 2, then defenders 1 and 2 go, and if the coach calls 3 - then all 3 defenders go.
4. Defenders who are called can move forward and back, left and right.
5. That's it, lets go.

• You will need to decide if this is a contact exercise or not.
• Don't forget to change the defenders.