I am just going to start coaching my local amateur rugby league club, I am very excited. However, I have been to a few of the teams games and they are poor defensively. Does anyone have any drills/techniques that could help? Please help.

Your the coach... you should know

Get them wrestling and slowing the tackle down...

In terms of drills, it's gotta be learning to communicate & slide against a ball shifting attack?

Mind you, depends what element of defence is poor?

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I'm thinking about the wrestling technique. They are generally poor at lining up in defence and sliding defence. Some of the tackling is fantastic but is let down by holes in the line.

Deffo work on drills to get defenders sliding and communicating. 1more attacker than defenders and get them sliding

too many shooting out of the line going for the glory hit?

if they're not keeping up with the line, you could try a drill to get them upto speed, so they can get back in the line and move with the line. Then work on the tackling and sliding defence.

Its not really a fitness issue. Most of the lads are fit, its just some are too keen and jump out of the line, whereas the others are just holding back, kind of. It's hard to figure out.

Get them to stick as a line and do what I know as the 'lines drill'.

Start on try line.
Run up 10m, back 10m
Up 20, back 20...

And so on.
As fatigue hits some will drop and it's upto every man in the line to stay together and motivate those struggling

Well you have to some how teach those to stay in the line and move out together as a unit. Not sure how you would as im no coach.

If you are thinking of that then the first one in as got to hit the ball it's so important if you have 3 in a tackle and they slip that ball away you have a gap a bus could fit through

First thing is getting them to move up in a line and cut out this glory shot stuff

Which amateur club is this?

Get them moving as a line together. We did a really good drill when I used to play, we all got tied together with long rope so you had to move together or you all just fell over.

After 4 times of falling over we learned the lesson.

I'd disagree with the rope thing you dont have it in a game

If you do none stop line work with them they will get so ****ed off they will want to get it right to stop it just keep doing it untill they get it right