Rugby: Drop Out Touch

Get your players thinking their way through this session, focussing on Drift Defence when the opposition have an overlap on the outside.

• 2 Teams.
• Half Pitch.

Touch Game with conditions; 

Attacker once touched must go down, bounce back up and drive into defender, then perform a long place. 

While all defenders retreat 3m and hit the floor and bounce back up again before continuing play. 

• 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. 

• Four attackers, two defenders in quite a small playing area - trying to find space.
• The aim is for each team of four to try to score as many 'tries' as they can consecutively. Failure to score means the team of four changes over to the next team.
• Touch rugby game play.
• Attacking four players are aiming to touch the ball down on an end line.
• Defenders are aiming to touch the attackers.

During a game of touch in a grid sized 30 x 30 metres the coach can choose to call blitz, drift or cover at any breakdown.

Upon hearing the call the defenders must run and touch the relevant line before running back to rejoin the game.

When the defenders are running to touch their line the attackers must turn their back on the defenders and give the ball to the coach. When the defenders are almost back in position the coach should roll the ball back to the attackers to restart the game.

The coach can later develop the game by introducing a visual clue to the defenders, instead of an audio cue, thus forcing the attackers to react to an unknown type of defence.