Kick chase on target

WHY USE IT

The kick chase requires the players to get themselves into an onside position and then into a line to prevent the attack making significant progress.

set up

40m x 60m playing area; a ball.

HOW TO PLAY

ACTIVITY: Put 10 players in one third of the area, spread at least 5m apart. They pass a ball among themselves. Every other pass must go backwards. Place three ‘counter attackers’ at the other end of the box. When you shout “Kick!”, the player with the ball kicks upfield. Their team-mates chase the kick while the other team gathers and runs back as far as they can without the ball carrier being touched twice. Restart if the kick goes out of play, but not if it goes behind the counter attackers.

DEVELOPMENT: Allow the counter attacking side to kick back. If they do, and the receiving team take more than three seconds to gather, they have successfully ‘breached’ the defence. Spread out the attackers more, so that some of them are into the opposition half of the box.

GAME SITUATION: Set up in a playing formation as in the middle illustration. Give the ball to one team, who kick it up field. Play with either full contact or two-handed touch.

COACHING POINTS

• Get into an onside position.
• Get into the chasing line and come up together.