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L2 - Anxiety Touch

Skill Practice Description Two teams play normal rules touch or contact. • Separate to either team are two rogue players to whom the rules do not apply. • These two players may be anywhere at any time including from set piece and their role is to disrupt the attack or the defence in any way they can. • A progression may be for the defence to be allowed to be a metre off side at every tackle and set piece. • These actions will place players under an exaggerated state of pressure they will not be under in a match. • Therefore the match may appear more manageable when the laws of the game are applied as normal.

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Okay, the idea of the game today is we're just going to play touch and when you are touch you will just stop and you will lift the ball through your legs. So it has to be caught by one of your teammates. Nobody from the opposition can interfere with that lift. Okay, then and we'll just play and we're just going to play for 30 seconds or so to warm up. Then I'm going to bring some games in which will change the idea of the game. And the whole idea of this game is called anxiety touch and what we're going to do is put a couple of Rogue players in all right to make it difficult for you to react see if you can react to the right in the right manner. Okay, yellows are playing away from me blacks are playing towards me. Okay, Tom Hudson should still have the ball. Okay, Renee play. Good luck line touch. touch touch square up touch good good lovely line Church. What is the rug guys good pies? Okay, come in last one. I'm going to make you slightly different this time that when the defense when the ball goes through the legs and does don't have to get all the way back as long as the coming back as you gotta have people all over the place now. Okay, anybody not clear? All right, and we just change the bibs. Okay, good. All right, good good part. That's alright for communication their past play out. Touch good good rats, go to communicate play ugh. Okay good come in.

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Two Touch With Tackle Practice

This game has multiple conditions for both attackers and defenders. Dropping defenders to practise their tackling while working on support lines and groundwork for the attackers. Great for the first half an hour of your session

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Quins - Two touch Game

This conditioned game allows attackers two touches so that they can isolate one defender, the game encourages good support play and can be used to improve fitness

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L2 - Mis-match Touch

Skill Practice Description • Two or three players (depending on numbers in each team) wear bibs of a different colour to the others. • The players in bibs can participate in every way except their tackles do not count. • The objective is for the team in possession to attack the areas these players defend. • If other defenders move to cover the players in bibs, that will open space elsewhere. • The defence may position the bibbed players in order to protect them or limit the spatial options. • Any strategic thinking is to be encouraged. • A progression may be to remove the bibs and nominate players to role play as non tackles or loose tackles if playing full contact. • It is the job of the attack to identify and find these weaker areas in the defence and take advantage. • It is the job of the defence not to leave these players exposed in too much space. Key Coaching Points • The attacking team are to scan for weaker defenders. • Once identified, keep working the attack to these areas. • If the defence cover the weaker defenders the attack should scan to seek out alternative opportunity as a result

L2 - Bozo Touch

Skill Practice Description • There are to be three teams. • Two teams play while one wait by the touch line. • When a score is made, the defence pick up the ball and attack immediately. • The scoring team leave the pitch while the waiting team run on and defend. • Turnover of possession is via a score, a forward pass, dropped ball, intercept etc. • The rules may also stipulate a six touch turnover for example. • The coach to observe how the waiting players spread when in the off pitch area in order to cover space when called onto the pitch. It may not be the team in possession at that time that scores. Key Coaching Points • Speed in scanning and communicating the spatial opportunity. • Development of foundation skills, passing and running. • Innovation in positioning when planning to enter the pitch from outside. • Develop team work and commitment to each other. Relevance to the Game • Develop the understanding of inviting multiple defenders into a tackle area in order to create space elsewhere.