Moves & Plays
Attack-minded rugby coaches look to shift defenders around, to create mismatches, 2 v 1s and gaps through the defensive line. Every team needs an armoury of core backs moves, ruck moves, back row moves and plays from penalties to break down defences and score more tries.
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Lineout Lifting
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The lineout is a key part of the game. Ensuring your jumpers and lifters work together is vital.
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Making the Most of Your Game Breakers
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Some players are outstanding against a broken defence and yet becalmed by an organised defence. Here's how you can get them into the game.
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Wrong Footing the Lineout Tail Gunner
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Study their last man at your lineout and you may find yourself changing your strategy early on.
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Chip and Chase
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Make kicking a first phase attacking option.
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The Selfless Runner
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How to integrate slow players into the wide ball game.
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Kicking for Pressure - On Hard Grounds
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We challenge teams to think beyond the adage of "don't let the ball bounce" and change their attacking tactics.
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The Role of the Fly Half - 5 Ways to Create Space (Part 1)
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The tactics you can adopt to create space, and therefore time, not just for the fly half, but for all your backs.
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The Role of the Fly Half - 5 Ways to Create Space (Part 2)
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The tactics and strategies you can adopt to create space, and therefore time, not just for the fly half, but for all your backs.
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3 Simple Tactics for Returning Kick Offs
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Receiving the kick off is both an opportunity and a threat.
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Making Communication the Key (Part 1)
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The best rugby players at any level are never quiet in attack or defence. A two part article by Paul Tyler.
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The Winning Secrets of Magic Space
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Tactics to get your fast winger into the game.
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Touch Rugby – Friend or Foe?
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Playing touch rugby can pay dividends when it comes to full contact matches.
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The Role of the Blindside Flanker
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You need to blend the talents of three players to produce a back row unit whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts, says Peter Tann.
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Rocket Ball
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A Smart Sessions for training players to drive through contact situations
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Hit the Opposition with Lomu
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A Lomu inspired move from my 50 Great Back Moves manual.
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Smashmouth Bullies
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A simple offensive tactic to bully your opponents.
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Shortened Lineouts
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When, where, how, tactics and options
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Smashmouth Plan B
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What to do when your opponents won't be "bullied" by your "Smashmouth" tactics.
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Never Say Never In Your Own 22
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Innovation in the way your team plays can be held back by one crucial factor - you.
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The Best Attacking Options from Lineouts
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It's vital you make best use of possession, says Jim Love, head coach of Viadana in Italy.
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The Outback Full Back
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With kicking being such a feature of the modern game, the positioning of your full back in defence can be critical.
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Tactics to Beat Their Defence (Part 1)
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Ways to identify your opponent's defensive tactics and refine your attacking strategy.
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Tactics to Beat Their Defence (Part 2)
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Ways to identify your opponent's defensive tactics and refine your attacking strategy.
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Pop Cycles
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A full session to boost your team's short passing skills.
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3 Proven Kicking Tactics to Win More Games
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Inexperience and youth are not the only reasons why teams kick badly.
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The Dangers of the Offload
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An offload is a ball that is passed after the ball carrier goes into the contact. Most commonly a player is tackled and, as they fall over, they "flip up" the ball to a player in support.
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Strategies and Tactics for the Youth Game (Part 1)
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Youth rugby has a number of differences from the adult version and requires different strategies. In this article, part one of a two, I look at the lineout and attack kicking.
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Strategies and Tactics for the Youth Game (Part 2)
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Youth rugby has a number of differences from the adult version and requires different strategies. In this article I look at moves and plays.
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The Best Sevens Attack in the World
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"Score off scrums, stretch the defence from lineouts and breakdowns, then score", says Mike Friday, the highly successful former sevens coach.
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Winning - The Stats that Matter
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Let the statistics shape your season and your plans for every game.
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8 Tips to Scoring More Tries
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Bored of using the same old moves and plays? Then develop some imaginative new moves!
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Exeter - A Great Backs Move
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A move for the opposition half, but not too close to their line.
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Space – The Final Frontier
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Players who are able to recognise and then exploit space effectively are highly valuable, but rare.
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An Easy Move to Score Tries
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A well-executed move can win a match. But this doesn't mean the move in itself has to be complex.
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Unstoppable Tries
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Can you plan for interceptions?
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Beating Defensive Drift
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Exploiting gaps in your opponent's defensive line.
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Mauling with the ELVs
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The ELVs (experimental law variations) are experimental no more. One of the laws causing most controversy concerns the maul.
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Scrummaging with the ELVs
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The ELVs (experimental law variations) came into force on August 1st. You will have to adapt your coaching, or your team will struggle.
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The Scrum Half and the ELVs
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How scrum halves have to adapt their defensive duties at scrums under the ELVs (experimental law variations).
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The ELVs and Lineouts
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The ELVs have resulted in a number of changes to the lineout laws.
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Kicking from Your 22 Under the ELVs
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When the whistle blows in your next match you'd better be prepared.