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LOGINLineout recovery
Not every lineout take is clean. Use this session to help your players learn how to recover the ball, or chase through onto opposition ball.
WHY USE IT
The complementary skills used in this scenario-type session: ground work, rucking, body positions, communication.
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A ball and two ruck pads.
HOW TO PLAY
ACTIVITY: Put four attackers and two ruck pad-holders together, as in the top illustration; it will be in the shape of a two-player lineout. The coach stands to the side of the lineout and throws a ball to the ground behind the attackers. Between them, they have to fall on the ball and secure it, while the ruck pad-holders try to disrupt.
DEVELOPMENT: Take away one of the ruck pads, so there is one defender challenging for the loose ball. A player throws in the ball, but the lineout players on either team can only play the ball with one hand.
GAME SITUATION: Form a lineout of at least four-a-side, with an attacking hooker and scrum half on each team, and an attacking and defending back (as in bottom illustration). A player throws hard and low to the lineout. Either team can win the ball, but can only use one hand to deflect the ball. The scrum-half has to pass the ball out to their back-line player, who then wins the point by kicking the ball. A failure to kick the ball cleanly gives a point to the other team.
COACHING POINTS
- Fall on the loose ball, with your back to the opposition.
- Supporting players: Get in behind the player on the ground and clear threats.
- Have four lineout players: thrower, 9 and two ‘jumpers’
- Throw the ball to the ground behind the lineout players
- Two ruck pad-holders are ready to come forward
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- One of the attackers falls on the ball, while the others aim to protect them
- The ruck pad-holders apply pressure
- The thrower puts in a hard and flat throw
- Lineout players can only use one hand to deflect the ball
- The teams aim to recover the ball. Success comes when the ball is kicked cleanly by the ‘back’, not the 9
Dan Cottrell
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