That's the question this Decision Making session asks as we aim to improve your players' confidence as they offload from the floor or ideally before contact has been made and increase your forward's success rate when moving up the field.
Starting with a quick review of Tackling Technique this session then moves swiftly onto Decision Making - getting players to scan what's in front of them instead of just blindly going through the motions with organised plays.
By practising these offloading in a 2 vs 2 situation you should look to see an improvement in your players' running lines of support around the contact area as well as arming your players with better options when they charge up the field on the attack!
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