Whole Team Attack - A with The Rugby Site

Adapting from a 1-3-3-1 to this 1-4-4-4-1 as many inexperienced in our club. As a coach I really liked this. Taking this training to the next level would have been components around the Joker and Blindside attack.

Mark Williams Canada

traducir los videos en español, por favor!!

David alejandro Luque Argentina

Hi, I’ve implemented this into junior rugby and have had two season’s undefeated(regional AU). Goes without saying requires some junior adaptation.

Nelson Robinson Australia

Love the system but in reality surely you will have certain players gravitating towards the same role that suits them.

Mickey Horner England

No closed captioning?? Come on!

Jason Adams USA

it is such innovative change to the systems being used.

Steve Botha South Africa

Polly makes structure easy to understand snd not overly complicated. I am struggling however to share with my other coaches

Andrew jones Wales

Awesome presentation Polly

ben macdougall Australia

Really practical instruction on attacking using pods and good reminder of the total rugby concept; all players being able to execute the attacking structure irrespective of the number on your back.

Abel Mataitini England

brilliant to fine tune it you do it with defenders

Donevon Sinclair South Africa

This is a great adaption of a standard forward pod structure.

Chris Australia

Traducir al Español los vídeos. Gracias.

Ernesto Orlando Barboza Spain

Great video…well explained and the drone view shows the development well. Just wish there was one more video showing the ‘joker’ role and combining all.

Jason Norval Ireland

Great idea! well filmed video! a few essential principles of play including the fundamental compressing / stretching opposition. The latter difficult to illustrate in the absence of opposition. Also a properly marked rugby field would also have tremendously helped the demonstration. Nevertheless, great work all together; Thanks Polly

Pierre Amilhat Belgium

Interesting ideas, which would make the defence think about their own strategies. However, I feel that the amount of information from the coach, both before and during the run through, which could potentially confuse the players. Perhaps, allow the players to make their own decisions within the set up, to improve their decision making processes. Unopposed ‘run through’s’ fail to take in the actions of the defence. Hope this doesn’t seem too negative. “I hear I forget; I see I remember; I do I understand!!”

Kevin Greaves Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Very empowering for the players to have the autonomy to use this setup and adjust depending on what the defensive picture looks like. My players are enjoying it. Brilliant.

Julius Tadulala Australia

Absolutely loving your ideas, Polly! Love your focus on fun and ‘having a carry’ too. Will be applying this this season!

gerhard moerdyk New Zealand

The most critical part of this video is when Polly states, “there are no numbers, because I believe that all players should have the confidence and be trained in the skills to perform any role in this attacking dynamic.”

Tedd Black USA

Nice structure and simple to learn Polly makes it easy to understand simplicity is best

Roger Dean Hodgson New Zealand

Most of my team play for the love of the game and this gives us a process to involve everyone. The drone aerial camera was a great angle to observe the structure. Good job!

John Coumbe-Lilley USA

brilliant

Fred Moe Arabian Gulf

Good

Takai Taulanga New Zealand

a good addition to the playbook

Peter New Zealand

hola,la esplicaciones son muy bueno, pero, no tiene subtitulos, ni tampoco esta traducido el español muchas gracias

lucas brouwer de koning Argentina

traducir

andres Monteverde Argentina

An excellent review/adjustment of a number of systems that are in use nowadays and a very good explanation of how to make it easy, to do the required job For the required situation, with a free flowing style.

Dean Rodwell England

Great video. The attacking shape provides a great foundation to find the weakness in the defence. In addition the edict that everyone has a role fits neatly with my view and approach. Finally the words of Polly – empowering the players, being committed 100% to your choice, having fun and play play play.

Anthony Mills Australia

Really great video, bit of basic structure and shape to keep things organised but also gives players freedom to play what’s in front of them. Very interesting pattern and really creative. Sums up why Kiwis are so good.

Sean Shepherd Singapore

Really great coaching this, clearly explained ideas. Am sharing widely. Thanks

Paul Walsh India

Great insight ,simple but effective..Thanks

Beniamino Soso Fiji

Great explanation of quite a complex game plan, made to sound easy!

Richard McClea New Zealand

Simple yet effective

Kerry Lewis New Zealand

Nice, simple but effective.

Wayne Maxwell New Zealand

This is genius stuff. I arrived at this idea independently through A combination of standing in damp fields with 15 year olds, the genius of Wayne Smiths videos on this site about incorporating forwards in attack and the General Movement ideas which came out of France.

Michael O'Byrne Ireland

Fanciful & patterned

Phil de Barra Ireland

Love the idea…only backs and forwards in 1st phase!

matt USA

This is just 1/3/3/1 but his decided to add backs.

Noel O'Meara Ireland

Great pattern to involve all players in an attacking systems with tonnes of options. Very difficult to defend. Thank you for the insight in expanding on the 1331 pattern which is now very common to a 14441 attack system.

Anthony Morley New Zealand

great points explained simply. thanks.

Dan O'Hara Australia