Rugby: Miss Pass (M1)

1. We will begin with laterial passing down the line, just to get going.
2. On your call we will start to miss the player in the middle, and pass to the next player instead (a miss-pass).
3. The player who is being missed should still come forward at speed and should still look as if they are going to take a ball.
4. When finished the players rejoin the back of the lines on the grid, but they move down one. So the first ball carrier now becomes the player to be missed, the missed player now becomes the reciever, and the reciever now moves to the first position to carry the ball.
5. Simple - lets get moving.

• Keep your player briefing, brief! If necessary you might considering having one group quickly demonstrate the exercise to the other players.
• Tell the players the following.......

1. This exercise is nice and simple. They should stand at a cones in the circle, but their order in number should be random as in the diagram above.
2. They have to pass to the next number up. So 1 passes to 2, who passes to 3 - and so on.
3. That's get - lets get the ball moving!

Keep your player briefing, brief! It's important to get your players working as quickly as possible.

• Lets get the ball and the players moving with lateral passing through the hands.
• Each training area only needs one ball, and that ball should be any of the two players at the outer most cones.
• Tell players to move forward, passing the ball down the line. When the ball gets to the last receiver, that player will pass it to the first receiver in the next line. That player should be waiting to go.
• Players should advance right away, they don't need to wait for your call.
• Allow the players to move the ball down the lines, just to get them used to handling the ball within the L.
• When you feel the players are comfortable, tell the players that the first ball carrier will miss pass the ball to the third player in the line, who will miss pass to the last player in the line, who will give an inside ball to the forth player in the line, who will then pass the ball to the second player in the line.
• When each line has completed the above pattern, they should give the ball to the next attacking line. The last pass to the next attacking line will be a long pass and should be completed correctly within the laws of the game.
• Allow the players to discover, though questioning, the best possible way of executing the M1 while maintaining or creating depth in advance of changing the pattern of attack.
• Players should change position in the line after each run.

• Keep your player briefing, brief! It's important to get your players working as quickly as possible.
• Lets get the ball and the players moving with lateral passing through the hands. Each training area only needs one ball, and that ball should start with the any of the two players at the very ends of the L.
• Tell players to move forward, passing the ball down the line. When the ball gets to the last receiver, that player will pass it to the first receiver in the next line that is waiting to go.
• They should advance right away. Allow the players to simply move the ball down the lines, don't mention the Miss Pass.
• After you feel the players are comfortable, tell them......

1. Any player can now call an L1,L2,L3,L4 - depending on their position in the attacking line.
2. This means that they can pass and loop round the back of the rest of the attack to collect the ball and continue the attack.
3. An example of this would be: L2, player passes, loops around two other players, and collects the ball in attack.

• Allow the players to discover, though questioning, the best possible way of executing and calling the (L) move.
• Players should change position in the line after each run.