Defence
Defence Ruck - Practice Plan
In this session Ben goes through the important parts of defending the ruck. From knowing what to look out for and how...
Insight & analysis
Articles
Deep dives on the modern game from The Rugby Site's contributors and coaches.
Attack
How the All Blacks are becoming a typical Dave Rennie team on exit counters
Current New Zealand supremo Dave Rennie has brought the same principles to the running of the All Blacks that he espoused in the Waikato ...
Set Piece
Is the new maul law working out as intended?
A minor, apparently trivial change can trigger an unforeseen set of consequences within the same system, and a major chain reaction furth...
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Defence
Defence Team - Practice Plan
In this session Ben goes through some of the key components to defending as a team. He goes through some key points a...
Attack
What is Creativity? – the curious case of Beauden Barrett versus South Africa
If the notion of creativity can be summarized in one word, that word would be ‘vision’. Better peripheral awareness a...
Leadership & Management
Tigers run out of patience after just one game?
Writer Graham Jenkins reflects on the biggest story to emerge from the opening round of the newly-sponsored Gallagher...
Set Piece
How the All Blacks dismantled the Wallaby lineout in Sydney
In his latest article analyst Nick Bishop uses Victor Matfield’s excellent Lineout series to helps illuminate the pro...
Set Piece
How the Crusaders lineout defence stood up to be counted in Christchurch
Lineout defence is one of the most important single aspects of defence as a whole. Analyst Nick Bishop explains how ...
Attack
The importance of ‘reloading’ and understanding space
How do you find the spaces which Townsend claims are always there, at times when the defence is still likely to be co...
Leadership & Management
To be, or not to be...Top 14 champions
Writer Graham Jenkins gets an insight into the new ‘culture’ behind Castres surprise Top 14 championship win with Cas...
Attack
How to make good choices after the break
What happens in the time and space after a break has been made is just as important, if not more so, than the initial...
Leadership & Management
Comfortable in chaos – train like a champion team
As the dust settles on another epic northern hemisphere season, writer Graham Jenkins looks at Stuart Lancaster’s inf...
Attack
Attacking the 13 channel – the All Black way!
In 2nd of the current pair of articles, Analyst Nick Bishop highlights how the All Blacks adjusted their attack to br...
TRS Español
Por qué los Jaguares están usando una línea biarticular en el Súper Rugby
En la ronda 11 del Super Rugby 2018, los Jaguares alcanzaron su primera victoria histórica en suelo neozelandés, y lo...
