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Hi everyone, Huge fan of this forum and I love reading all the topics and everyone's views. I'm a player/coach of a tag rugby team in Dublin and I'm looking for suggestions on how to make our attack more potent. It's a 7-a-side mixed team with both male and female players of all skill levels, shapes and sizes. We’ve played together for 2 years now and defensively we’re rock solid but we lack creativity going forward. We’re very one dimensional in attack which makes us easy enough to defend against. I was hoping that you could recommend some backline moves we could use to create gaps in the opposition’s defense. Bearing in mind that it’s non contact sport and the level of skill in the team is pretty average. Appreciate any feedback you have to offer. Cheers
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Supreme Being
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my wife coaches tag to U7s... now there is a world of difference between adults and six year olds of course, but what she (and thus we :-) have learned is that U7s are not capable of complicated attack patterns, or even generally quite simple ones. What DOES work is just constant support off the shoulder of the ballcarrier from depth. So BC gets tagged and passes to a supporter coming from depth. Who if tagged passes to a supporter from depth. It keeps the game flowing at least at these age groups and often once the defense is breached its a score or evry close to one.
Adults will be able to work on this more as they are intellectually capable of more of course. So purely as an idea, two or three players working linearly (ie straight up the pitch) looking for passes close in following a tag 9or just as the tagger is committed even better) may well provide a defence breaker. the other players supplying width can then put the ball into even more spece if the defnse has got sucked in by any line breaks.
The danger is if you get turned over in open play (knock-on collected by oppo say) then you have large gaps in your own defense now... but its risk and reward after all!
cheers
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The simplest 'move' I suggest to my players when playing Touch is to hit the gap hard to draw two defenders, and go quickly ... set up two or three of these 'crashes' and you'll catch the defence disorganised if not offside and the opportunities should present themselves.
Alternatively...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp4ArUXYBg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewra3QkhwRM&feature=related (there's a bunch of these - check the uploader's page)
... and if you head on over to the Maori Television page, there are a few shows with full matches and highlights.
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| That's very useful guys, thanks a lot. I'll let you know how our training and matches go
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| As previously mentioned there is loads of space in behind so practice the 'v' or diamond formation - ball carrier and support runners left & right...hit the gap & plenty of offloads.Best way to create space are quick hands, quick feet. Plenty of passing drills getting the receiver to change direction into the pass and out of the pass as he/she receives the ball (unders/overs..without getting too complicated). Practice the switch/cut & ball carrier passing the ball then looping the receiver to create extra player. When done at pace they are very effective.
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| For an attacking option in training I would get the players to line up behind each other. on the signal fan out as the first player runs forward (to commit a defender) and then passes left or right depending on which way the players fan out. Start the line with players further apart to create depth. Attacking from depth at speed is the key aim,its very difficult to defend(see england v Ireland 2010)
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| Hi all, first post here but been reading the forum for a while. I used to coach touch rugby, which while a little different to Tag shares a lot of similarities. I'm sure you already know this, and sorry if it's grandmothers and eggs time, but the key to breaking down defences in both games is to make sure the dummy half is there quickly, and that you play the ball whilst the other team is retreating. To do this the team in possession needs to identify where and when they will take the first touch/tag, and then drive in a tight formation through that point, quick play the balls to people coming onto it at speed means you should make rapid ground and pull defenders in from wide, and create spaces further out. The best place to attack to split a defence is generally on the link, 2nd defender in from the touch so, the person on the inside of the winger. Once within scoring distance you should look to slow down and make sure the defenders are back their regulation distance, this then gives you time on the ball, and means they have to cover more ground to defend. The best attacking move in touch rugby I've seen, was a simple thing we called a two pass wrap, i'm not sure how this would translate to tag but essentially. You drive in a 3 or 2 man cluster on the 2nd man in, then you pass from dummy half to the mid who passes to the next mid who takes the touch, you're dummy half runs to the touch and acts as dummy half again, and the link who made the pass prior to the touch wraps around and becomes the first receiver. This should in essence create a 3 on two overlap, or a 4 on two if your dummy half scoops, that is coming at pace at a retreating defence. The other thing is to make sure that when attacking your team uses all the space, make sure your wingers are hugging the touchline, and that those not involved in driving are spread out to stretch the defence, quick play the balls will let your play makers utilise the space left out wide. The last thing, and this can seem a little unfair is to be quite ruthless and make sure you drive at the girls in defensive line of the opposition team with a cluster of three. This will have the effect of speeding up the play the ball and sucking in the guys to help them who will generally be able to cover the ground a lot quicker in defence and will leave spaces out wide. hope that helps, Great game, though, I really enjoy playign and coaching out of season.
It's a simple game when played properly
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I've been coaching tag for the last few years and the big difference for me between good teams and not so good teams is the execution of overlaps.
There are constantly overlaps (3 on 2s, 2 on 1s) because teams don't number up very well in defence. If you can train your team to firstly recognise an overlap before the play the ball, secondly communicate it to each other and thirdly execute the skills then you'll find you'll make a lot more line breaks. Obviously, try teach the skills first, then build in the recognition and communication aspect through games, etc in training.
The other thing we have our girls do is line up well ahead of the attacking staggered line in attack. So the men inside the girls on the wing are staggered to hit the ball at pace from depth but the girls stand in line with the play the ball and set off (offside!) as soon as the ball is played. If there is a line break, the girls get to the tryline around the same time as the guys so it's an easy 3 rather than a 1 or hanging around trying to offload to a girl, which usually means a tag.
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| Also, I should ahve mentioned, if you slow down when in socring distance you should hold the ball at the edge of the distance they need to retreat to be onside, which should mean they have to retreat to their goalline. The reason for doing this is if you wait until they are nearly at full distance and then make a quick play teh ball, this means essentially if your dummy half scoops they should be over the tryline beofre anyone can play them. So in touch, again not sure how you'd translate it to tag, we would hang around on the 5 metre line with the ball drawing their defenders out, then quickly someone would set up a play the ball on one of their defenders and the dummy half would scoop and go followed by the person who just placed the ball, you should be able to get over the try line and off load the ball to the support runner around the same time the defenders make it back. we scored a lot of tries with this.
It's a simple game when played properly
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| Been a while since I coached tag but.... one thing we used to do was get a kid (different every time) to just follow the ball. We encouraged the guys to tag the tag and then pass - funnily enough it increased their awareness and now they have excellent hands in the contact game (best offloaders around!) The guy who followed the ball could then run from deep and get through the gap created because the player could not tag again until he had given the tag back! I also once heard a coach say to the kids to take the tag, pass but keep on running - not only did it keep forward momentum but it also made it harder for the tackler to give the tag back! (No comment on ethics of this!?!?!?!) Most important thing though - Go Forwards!
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