Dan chats with Gary Townsend, the Bristol Bears Junior Academy manager about a question from Will Jones, an U15s coach from Cardiff.
He asks: The backs are doing the forwards' work when it comes to the breakdown. Plenty of forwards are way too lazy and not bothering to clear out and secure the ball. Do you have any good drills we could use to get them switched back onto this?
We cover:
- What do the forwards want to do
- Do we need to have position-specific roles
- How to use decision-rich training, both drills and games
- Encouraging players to ruck, and also encouraging the ball carrier to be active at the ruck
- Changing habits by manipulating the drill
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