Rugby: Quick Hands Race

The sequence of passing on this exercise is as following......

1. P2 passes to P1, who passes to P4.
2. As the same time P3 passes to P2 who passes to P1, who passes to P3.
3. P1 passes to P3 , and so the exercise continues.

• There should be no delay in passes.

Tell your players the following.

1. They just need to pace the ball down the line, each player will get the ball.
2. A colour will be called, which is the target. The ball must be down the line before they hit that target.
3. They move come onto the ball at pace, and hands will need to be quick when the target is close.
4. That's it, play.

• Explain to thescrum halfs that they are to attempt to pass the ball at the attackers and attempt to hit them below the shoulders.
• It won't be a completed pass as the attackers are just trying to avoid getting hit.
• The scrum halfs can move sideways along the edge of grid, however, cannot move forward into the grid.
• The attackers can attack when they like, and if hit they can be out - or have more than one life.
• When an scrum half makes it through the grid successfully, with out being directly hit by a pass, they wait at the other end till all the other attackers make it.
• The scrum halfs must make their passes/hits from the groud.

• Within a group there are two groups of 4 attackers and one chaser/scrum half.
• At the middle point, marked by a cones, the scrum half moves the ball to the first attacking line.
• The scrum half firstly tracks the progress of the ball, as the exercise progresses - the scrum half should apply more and more pressure to the ball carrier - working up to the point of becoming a full on defender.
• When the ball reaches the opposite end of the grid, the last player in the line sets the ball down.
• The scrum half then feeds the ball to the next attacking line, fulfilling their own role within the exercise.
• The opposite attacking line should realign in preparation for the next attack.
• The tempo of this exercise should be high.