Rugby: Staying Square and Fixing Defenders

• Tell your players the following......

1. Player A passes to D and cuts - not getting ball back , but holding up - B cuts and receives the ball off D, then turns it back inside to C, who passes to A to score out wide on Right.
2. Players change position after each attack, the static player will be a runner in the next attack.

Set up a large square with a cone in each corner. Three attacking players start along one side of the square with two defenders in the middle. You can increase the number of attackers or defenders as you wish. Attacker always try to attack across the square. Once the attackers reach the other side of the square they pop the ball to the attackers on the side of the square and not in front of them.

• This is a simple yet very effective exercise designed for players to focus on spin passing accuracy.
• Players start in three lines, about 5 metres apart. This is copied on the other side of the playing area.
• In the middle of the playing area, in front of the three lines are two plastic poles, a metre apart.
• An end player starts with the ball, runs through the poles and passes to the left, behind the poles of the next player. The middle player collects and runs through their poles, before passing to the final player, who collects the ball before the poles and runs through.
• That player then pops the ball to a player waiting on the other side. The exercise continues.

Tell your players the following...

1. The first player runs into the grid, the ball carrier.
2. They attack the inner square.
3. When they get into that square, they then pass to a player either on their left or right before following their pass and taking the place of the receiver on the cone.
4. The receiving player then runs into the grid and passes (left or right) before following their pass once again.
5. Passes should be legal.