Explaining overs and Unders

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INTRODUCTION

Ultimately when coaching Rugby League, you want your players to create an overlap or to drag defenders out of position so that a hole is created in the defensive line for someone to go through!! Overs and Unders are a way of creating these holes for people to go through.

Both are coached in a very similar way, an unders line See’s the support player run towards the ball carrier and overs the opposite way. The video below shows you the unders line being run twice and the overs line once.

Introducing the dropoff or D-Ball

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INTRODUCTION

The simplest way to describe the Dropoff ball is the ball carrier runs across the park and hits a man coming back on the inside of him, watch the following video to see what I mean

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3 v 2 v 1

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The 3 v 2 v 1 is a drill that can be used when learning individual elements of the game and then to keep practicing and making them better. The general idea is that you start with 3 defenders split into a 2 and a 1 with the 1 about 10 meters behind the other 2 and you also have 3 attackers hence 3 v 2 v 1. The 3 attackers first of all attack against the 2 defenders which give them a number of options (more about those a little later) and then once they have beaten those defenders they have to re-adjust and then beat the single defender in a 2 v1

INSTRUCTIONS

Set out an area around 10 meters wide by around 20 meters long, halfway down your area you want to place 2 cones either side of the drill, these are where

OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Start the drill with the players on their fronts or backs

Have 6 players in a line and give each a number, coach calls out 3 numbers who must react and defend whilst the others organize their attack very quickly.

Make the drill 30 meters along so the 2 defenders are retreating 20 and introduce a 10 meter line, the defenders set off with the ball passing it down the line and must place it anywhere on the 10 meter line and then retreat, attack must pick the ball up and complete the drill. This advancement changes the drill a lot as they then have to think about which defender to drag, which support player is running into space and also to take the correct option (Decision Making)

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