Really great practice last night, team, both the tackle players and our touch players. Big thanks to all of our coaches: Andy, Dale, Jim, Steve, Casey, Katie, Dave and Dave, for coming out to help these kids learn about rugby. Their progress in the last two weeks has been fantastic.
I really liked the way the tackle players were taking to the ruck last night, showing good sense of off-side, entering through the gate, etc. The one thing we need to work on is quickly setting up an offensive line coming from a ruck, and having the patience to hold the ball for a few more seconds to let it come together. We also need to work on setting up a defensive formation against a lost ruck. We'll work on both of those next week.
Next week:
Lineouts. We'll set our basic calls and practice lifting and setting.
Penalty plays. We'll get our basic penalty plays set, and we'll practice all of them.
Rolling Maul. We'll introduce the maul, and then introduce and practice the rolling maul, one of my personal favorites.
And we start playing on Saturday the 20th. It's going to be great.
--Coach Dacey
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