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| Hi all, Just a quick request...i train a group of juniors (10-11s) and we are having difficulty getting the backs to form a defensive/attacking line at the breakdown...they seem to congregate around the edges of the ruck/maul which leads us offensively to not be able to get the ball wide and leaves us defensively a bit erm...lacking! Anybody help me with some drills to instill this getting back and wide?
Ian
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| Hi all This what I did for our U11's and it has worked well: Tag with Rugby league Restarts I restart every breakdown with a controlled league style restart(heel the ball back). Control is by the whistle at first so it gives the backs time to organise, both attack and defence, you can coach positional awareness in the time you have ensuring that everybody is where they should be. At first we used two whistle blasts: 1. "Breakdown" on tag or other stoppage - stop play 2. " Release" The ball is heeled back to the SH or acting SH - play resumes I then lessen the period in between the whilstles so they get organised quicker. As they progress only use the first whistle so it forces even quicker reaction, eventually remove the whistle completely so that the timing of the release is down to your SH or acting SH. I hope I have explained it okay and it helps. Cheers Piggy
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Good idea Piggy.
If you still find the players bunching round the ball you might try dividing the pitch into 3 channels and making the defenders stay in set channels. Attackers can move anywhere, defenders have to stay in channel. Drill attached.
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| I get 2 full back lines red and blue in a huddle in the middle of a scaled down pitch (I give them all their playing positions. I then place a ball (to start with next to the touch line) at one end of the field and call a colour (red or blue) which is the attacking team. The attacking team forms an attacking line from the ball across the field, and the defensive line forms a flat line 7m back from the ball. After the first one I get the players to ensure they are marking their opposite number and to remember who that is (I encourage the backs to do this at the first set play in a match). Once you have done this a few times moving the ball (in effect the breakdown) into different positions, you can allow the attacking side to attack as soon as they are set, and play either to a score or until the first tackle. I sometimes grab the attacking scrum half to stop him going to his position at the ball to see if any of his team mates will fill in. I also then develop it further holding back defenders to create spaces to attack, or attackers to create a defensive overload. Hope this makes sense.
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| ... to add to that excercise, you could create three or four coned off stations (or just cones on their own/tackle bags lieing on floor, whatever) and number them off ... the call a number and the players must align on them as appropriate, then another number and they realign on that station ad nauseum.. This could then progress into having a ball at each station, and after calling a number and alignmnet an whistlke could be the cue to start playing. Tne gap between calling the number and blowing to start could then be reduced to increase the pressure on getting into position. Alternatively you could of course outline the game and just play it out./.. then stop the game and ask the players to identify where the problems are and how they could improve/where they need to improve. Posibly take the game back to the earlier stages, then return to the full game sxcenario. Personally I prefer the latter whole-part-whole approach, but maybe for much younger age groups the former building block approach could be of more use (?????) didds
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| I would add to the good ideas above, especially the game situation stuff in the last post is that it is worth trying to give more players "responsibility" for defence. In other words one or two of the better players become defensive captains. I have used this with U8s and U12s. With some ideas on how to organise, they start to make it their job to get people into position.
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