Barry, Last night at training we just played the Ulimate Game to teach players awareness when it comes to changing over from Attach to Defense. It's called Two-Ball Touch. What you do is break you teams up into a mix of back and forward. If you have coloured bibs this works best. You will also need two differnt balls i.e. colour or brand. Each teams balls are placed at mid field to begin the game. You nominate which team starts on attack. For the purpose of this explanation we will say there is the Blue and Red Team. If blue start they play like normal touch but there is only 1 touch allowed per turnover. When the blue team is touched they place the ball on the ground where the touch occured and go on defense they must hustle to get back 5m behind from the red teams ball to be onside. Once the red team has touched the blue team they are now an attack from where their ball started. So after the first touch of each game everyone is rushing back to the middle of the field where the red ball sits. Now red is on attack. If red is attacking and 80 percent of blue is not behind the offside line by the 1st touch Red gets awarded a 2nd go at attack. However if blue is behind the offside line at the fisrt touch of red player, red places the ball down at the site of the touch and blue is on attack and must run back to where their ball was placed down during their first go at attack. It get harder and hard as the game progresses because if blue gets to within 5m of the goalline and is touched and red's previous attack ended at within 5m of thier own line the players are covering almost 90% of the field in an attempt to A) get back on side. or B) get back to the ball before the other team can get on side. It was amazing to watch how great the communication became as the game went on. It's sad to say but it was better than most games. The best thing was that instead of like in a game where the forwards try to take refuge at the ruck they we lining up on a man out wide because if they didn't get a body on him he was bound to score because they were the only defender between him and open space. I left that training session wishing we were in midseason in lieu of pre-season.