Hi, my name is Tom drew. It hit right here. The university. What we're gonna look at today is a simple to V2 for man, tackle, drill around the square. You'll have two Defenders one in a suit or one without a super tackler. And one with a pad with a ball, the person of the pad of the ball will pass it across the square to an attacking player. There's attacking player engages. The person of the pan passes it to his support player who uses footwork to balance out of his so-called Defender. We're looking for a Good clean tackle from the defender found side foot shoulder contact, bring it to the ground. Once this happens is a speed race between the defender with the pad and the support player. We're trying to emphasize that the clear outcomes from the inside so that we can hold with on attack and defense. So we want to clear up from the inside. What you're looking for. Is a Defender. Once he's passed the ball to the attack. He then during the defender and acts as a shield for the first. Threat to try and steal the ball and see how that goes. Thank you.
A brief overview of the importance of strong defensive structure and some basic exercises to build it.
The Defensive Line
When the experts explain things in simple terms it all makes sense. The Blitz defence can be confusing and delivering the coaching blocks to develop this policy can be tricky. Richard Thorpe explains things in easy to understand language
This video takes you through the basics of both blitz and drift defences and provides great drill ideas.
A clever game created by Russell Earnshaw to encourage players to experiment and learn about communication
Building a defensive system starts with the first three defenders and what they need to do at the breakdown. The Northampton saints coaches go through the steps and progressions to help younger players learn the key movements and techniques
This exercise focuses on the key elements of a strong defensive system, including scanning, line-speed and staying linked with your team mates.
Back Row Defence
A combination of skills are tested, both technical and tactical with the defenders moving from a passing activity to defending 8 attackers. The coach can change the attack with different starting points and number of attackers
Players must observe the actions of the attacking side, and organise their defensive line early to be able to counter it. A continuous drill that requires patience and good communication.
Practice of team defence is important for reinforcing effective systems of defence that require aspects such as communication, pressure and drifting
Tackle Technique Warm-up
Tony Dirpose from Harlequins delivers a unit defence exercise on spacing and line speed
Conditioned Game - Breakdown Technique
A progression for preparing the player for contact & collison
The classic schoolyard game. Played full contact but with tackle pads. Attackers must get to the other side of the field without dropping their ball or being pinned to the ground by defenders with tackle pads.
Defence - Exit & Kick Chase
An exercise for continuity and support.
The coach can set the width of the channel and intensity of the defenders
The team warm up with individual tackle techniques, progress to unit work and then onto full team exercises from set piece play
Coaching defence starts with some warm up games and progresses to specific skills and the coach then builds upon these basics. A system of defence is then introduced and practised in a conditioned game
This game simulates a counter-attack situation. The attacking side must gather the ball, look up to assess the defensive line, and attack the right areas. Start with fewer defenders, adding one on each attempt to increase difficulty. Progression: Defensive lines should vary between a wide or narrow alignment, to test the decision-making of the attackers.
This game simulates a counter-attack situation. The attacking side must gather the ball, look up to assess the defensive line, and attack the right areas. Start with fewer defenders, adding one on each attempt to increase difficulty. Progression: Defensive lines should vary between a wide or narrow alignment, to test the decision-making of the attackers.
After starting with a defence-focused game, this drill can be used to focus on organising a drift defence from the breakdown. The four defenders touch all cones in the tackle area to simulate chaos before getting into position.
Use this exercise to replicate a line break with one defender to beat. The attackers need to move the defender and execute a 2 v 1 while the initial defender tracks back to stop the pass. Also works movement at top end speed for the main attacker
In this exercise, the emphasis is on linespeed in defence. The purpose is to put pressure on the attacking team to force an error and create the turnover opportunity.
When an opportunity is acknowledged, players flood the breakdown to gain possession, before moving the ball away quickly
The ability to move from 1 to 1 tackling exercises into unit & group skills can be tricky. Here are some tips that you could use
Lions 2009 defence clip
This exercise tests the defenders ability to keep a peripheral view of where the next threat might be coming from and to keep communicating with colleagues. Attackers are always looking for the next opportunity an so should defenders
A clip with a progression on defensive systems from the 2009 Lions Tour
A clip from the 2009 on defence systems
The Lions drill for developing awareness of attack and defence options
Statistics from the 2012 JWC show that teams with stronger defences performed better.
A clip from the 2009 Lions
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