The
Rugby Coaching
Manual

  1. 1. Consider your coaching style and meet the players.
    • Your coaching style for the coming season.
    • Aims for the season.
    • Training nights.
    • The pyramid of team performance.
    • The captain and leadership.
    • Treatment of referees – early planning.
  2. 2. Coaching fundamentals.
    • Work on the basics in a straightforward manner.
    • Go forward.
    • Primary possession.
    • Basic skills.
  3. 3. Pre-season training.
    • Touch rugby as a warm-up.
    • Basic skills in handling, running and passing.
    • Preserving outside space.
    • ‘Cutting’ the ball.
    • Fitness-related skill work.
    • Martial arts/wrestling.
    • Low running – effective body angles.
    • Small team game with fitness element (5v5).
    • Passing out of contact.
    • Tackling.
  1. 4. Aspects of the game to consider before matches start.
    • Place kicking and drop kicks.
    • Options when a player has the ball.
    • First man to the tackle hits the ball.
    • Back to 1
    • Play what you see.
    • Backs’ moves?
    • Role of the blindside winger in attack.
    • Ruck v maul – and preserving outside space.
    • Getting strong in contact.
    • Fast ball?
    • Pods.
    • Blindside.
    • Confuse opponents.
  2. 5. Defence.
    • ‘Banana’ or out-to-in defence.
    • Slide defence – the drift.
    • Up and in – the blitz.
    • Up and hold.
  3. 6. Kicking policy.
  4. 7. Scrum and back row moves.
    • Abdominals in scrummaging.
    • Scrum machine as an individual training tool.
  5. 8. Lineout.
    • The throw.
    • Lifting technique.
  6. 9. Restarts.
  7. 10. Statistics – or paralysis by analysis?
    • Fitness testing?
    • Match statistics.

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