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andy dixon
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Sun, 22 September 02 22:00 GMT
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This is a big problem and is even worse when girls are in the team because boys will definitely not pass to them at all.
Ways I have used in training, to various levels of success are:
1. Moving players around the pitch to ensure they have to pass to different players.
2. Put the offenders on the wings so that they have to be passed the ball more often than passing it themselves
3. Restrict the offenders to 5 metres running with the ball otherwise before they must pass or the ball is turned over to the opposition
4. Make it a rule that everyone on the team must carry the ball at least once or any try scored will be disallowed
5. Make it so that only certain players are allowed to score (not the good ones)
Using one or a combination of two or more of these often helps to promote a team spirit especially if tries are disallowed because they did not pass the ball. Peer pressure, even at this age, is a useful coaching tool.
The only effectual method however is perseverance and a combination of “carrot” and “stick” techniques to get over the point of “you must pass to a support player in a better position than you” and that the key factor is the better position not who that player is.
It is very difficult not to play a star in a game but sometimes this has to be done to get the point across. This is best done after discussion with the player and parents and with lots of notice such as “he will not play in two weeks time if he doesn’t learn to pass the ball to others and we will be watching him closely in training over the next two sessions”. This must be managed carefully otherwise they may stop coming but I have used this method once and did not have to drop the player because his parents talked to him and gave him some personal “coaching” from the touchline. I would not want to introduce barriers to participation and coaches should come up with their own methods based on the local situation.
I would point out that even in Senior Rugby, 1st team players will not pass to 3rd team players during training and often get caught with the ball because of it. If someone had dropped them from the team when they were six years old, maybe they would be better team players now.
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Sun, 22 September 02 21:31 GMT
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Difficult one but one way is to say that in a practice game each player can only score once. This makes player pass to players who tend to receive fewer passes.
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clivers
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Sun, 22 September 02 12:43 GMT
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Having just finished a morning of coaching U7's, it's quite apparent that the boys tend to pass to their friends only. Although the obvious answer is to split the boys into different groups, as there is a lot of them from the same class it is not possible. Has anyone got any ideas, suggestions on how to discourage or penalise this so that all boys get a fair share of the play.
Many thanks....
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