1. Play lots of games, and not just rugby, but touch, netball even soccer.

2. Practise at least 50% of your passing exercises with live defenders.

3. Set up game situations and let players work through them finding their own solutions (with only a little guidance from you)

4. Work on super speed games and exercises where players are placed under undue pressure in terms of time, space and defence. They will then find a normal game situation easier.

5. Use realistic starts to an exercise, so players can work on the right triggers to move off, and scan ahead.

6. Before the start of a practice, talk through the possible scenarios that might occur and ask players on how they might deal with. They must be very descriptive in their answers. For instance: "I can see there is a slower player in the outside centre channel, so we need to miss pass the ball to a faster player in that channel."