Rugby: Simple Hands 2 V 1

Early catch, look, perfect pass. Improve your players' passing precision and speed to play with a free flowing attack.

This drill coaches players the lines they should run when receiving the ball in order to maximise the chance of them breaking the gain line.

• Use a tackle bag to simulate where the ruck and offside line would be.
• The players line up as if they were going to come "around the corner" to receive the ball.
• Players should run an L shaped running line to get across the first defender and then footwork to get through the second defender.

Progression (0.49) - Add an extra pass to the drill

• For the first receiver the drill is exactly the same in terms of the running line.
• Then there is a second player on his outside shoulder who uses the same running line to beat the second defender.
• The first receiver has a choice (1.19) - whether to go through the gain line and pass or pass before he gets to the gainline.

What is the gain line?

The gain line is an imaginary line in rugby parallel to the halfway line that is the back foot of the breakdown or the defences offsideline.

Hold the ball between your legs, one hand behind, one hand in fornt.

Gently throw the ball up and swap your hands, from back to front and front to back and catch the ball before it touches the ground. Flexing legs.

See how quickly you can do this, how many in 30secs.

• This drill is designed to work on the loop; on of the simplest and most effective ways to create your own overlap/space out wide
• Start with three attackers and three defenders using tackle bags in front of them.

• Attacker 1 passes to attacker 2 and begins to loop around.
• Player 1 should then receive the ball back and his next aim is to fix the third defender.
• Attacker three should make his way out to the edge where the space has been created.
• Attacker 1 then passes to attacker 3 who has space to get around the defence.
• Using this drill will develop your players handling under pressure and their attacking vision and ability to create space

Set up 5 cones around in a circle. The tackler works out from the first cone to make the tackle. The tackler then backtracks around the next and then comes forward to make the tackle again. Two tackles off the right shoulder, one front on and two off the left shoulder.