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How To Score More Tries
50 Great Backs Moves – a unique manual of try-scoring tactics and ways to coach them.
A single, simple, well-executed move can turn a game.
But how do coaches know the right moves to pick?
Dan Cottrell’s unique manual of try-scoring tactics and ways to coach them will guarantee your team has solid and dependable firepower from set pieces.
50 Great Backs Moves is published this week. Owning this resource will provide you with the material to make it easy to allocate training time to backs plays.
Starburst and Suicide (just two of the moves in the report) will become second nature to your team, along with Welsh Option, East West, Tank 10, Oz Loop and many more.
Devised by Dan Cottrell, editor of the internationally acclaimed Rugby Coach coaching newsletter, 50 Great Backs Moves is so easy to use. Each move is clearly displayed and explained in words and pictures.
The Move Finder guide allows coaches to select a move that suits the strengths of their team, targets a weakness in the opposition, or exploits the particular circumstances of the match.
There are moves to play the team back into a game they are losing, attack weak individual opponents, use a strong No 12 or No 13, or score from certain areas of the pitch. All the moves are divided into easy, medium and advanced for easy reference and selection.
50 Great Backs Moves explains who does what, and highlights common mistakes that are made.
The commentary tells when it is good to use a move, and things for the players to think about when they are.
Copies of each move can be printed or photocopied and given to players on the training ground. Players can study the nuts and bolts on paper, increasing their understanding before putting the theory into practice.
There’s no need to save the copies – keep the report on a PC desktop and just print off more next time a move is practiced (restricted to use with a single organisation).
Print off a different move for each training session.
The 59pp report includes a full explanation of all the terms used to explain the moves, including crash ball, dummy switch, flat ball, running a triangle and arc.
Here are some of the comments from coaches around the world who have already taken a look at 50 Great Backs Moves:
“Thanks to these great moves we won the grand final” – Kad Kafoa
“I was coaching 2nd grade for two years, made semi final both years but didn’t make the grand final. I decided I needed more help in finding ways to score more tries, then comes the 50 GREAT BACKS MOVES. It was easy to implement because of it’s simplicity. The layout of the report is outstanding, it makes so much sense. We finished the year with best for and against thanks to these great moves and WON THE GRAND FINAL. Thanks Dan.”
- Kad Kafoa, Hawkesbury Valley Rugby Club, Windsor, NSW, Australia
“We won the open” – David McClean
“We used Dan’s 50 Great Backs Moves in our recent Sunshine Coast Under 17’s Rep Sides Gold Coast Rugby Tournament and Brisbane Tens Festival and the proof is in the pudding when we won the open Blue Division beating “Glenstall Abbey” from Ireland in the final after knocking out teams from Singapore and others from New Zealand. Was great to have a lot of pre-planned information that the guys could see and understand. Thanks Dan, keep the great information coming.”
- David M. Mclean JP, Coach, Under 17s Development Squad, Sunshine Coast Breakers Junior Rugby Union, Sunshine Coast, Australia
“From 3 games we have managed to score 20 tries” – Tony King
“We have used some of these back moves in our season so far with excellent results. From 3 games we have managed to score 20 tries, including some very slick backline tries from set piece moves, so something must be working alright.”
- Tony King, Bedok Kings RFC, Singapore
“The results have been brilliant” – Jim McRobert
“50 Great Back Moves has been used extensively in our training sessions at Wensleydale Rugby Club – the results have been brilliant especially in the junior section where they have been used on weekly coaching sessions, easy to use and understand and brilliant to follow. Well worth a try.”
- Jim McRobert, Coach Co-ordinator, Wensleydale RUFC, England
“50 Great Backs Moves contains both simple and complex moves which enable a coach to introduce a level of complexity consistent with the age group or skill level. I have used some of the basic moves for our Under 9s and will use the more elaborate moves after the backs learn to execute these moves well. The moves can be used for all age groups from Under 9s to seniors.”
- Philip Crotty, Director Mini Rugby, Valley Fort RFC, Hong Kong
“I found the book to be very informative and workable with backs that wished to bring their play to the next level. Simple guidelines and tips were excellent. A must for any coach.”
- Adrian Curran, Corca Dhuibhne RFC, Ireland
“I found the package of 50 Great Backs Moves very useful in my everyday coaching. Very well laid out and user friendly. Very handy to give individual sheets to the players for easy reference.”
- Kevin Jones, Toronto Saracens RFC, Ontario, Canada
50 Great Backs Moves is available online at:
www.rugby-coach.com/50bm