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The Rugby Playbook
Next Level · Ages 12+
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Next Level · Ages 12+ · Playbook 1

Read the Game

Reading defences, kicks and the clock

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“By the end you can read a defence early, decide between a kick and keeping the ball, and manage a match when the score and the clock matter, and explain why.”

What your player learns

By the end of the book, your player can:

  • Use the read at pace: look before the ball arrives, as it arrives and after they let go
  • Read a defence: its shape (line, gaps, edges, depth) and the tells that show what it will do next
  • Spot a pattern, test it, and adjust
  • Give reasons to kick, say who is chasing, and know the basics of the chase, touch, the 50:22 and the mark
  • Weigh score, time, field position and conditions, and list the options after a penalty
  • Choose an option in three new scenarios, explain why, and say what would change the answer

Look inside

3 of the 20 pages. Tap a page to see it bigger.

For grown-ups: This book is about decisions. It doesn’t teach tackling, rucks, mauls, scrums, kicking or catching a kick; learn those from your coach.

With Riley, Kai, Freya and Coach Dan.

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