Warm up the eight metre pass across a full group. The longer range means the ball has to be struck rather than rolled, and the two gates give the accuracy something to be measured against.
Mark a strip about five metres wide and twenty five long, with two gates of markers along its length. Spread eight players down it. A pair exchanges three passes, mostly at seven or eight metres, then one stays and the next joins so the work travels along. Pass through a gate whenever the angle allows. Two touch throughout. Run it in both directions and finish with a few minutes of the short-range version.
This is the long-range half of a matched pair. The structure is identical to its short partner, eight players in a narrow strip with the active pairing travelling down the line, and the only real change is that the exchanges happen at seven or eight metres instead of three to five.
That difference is worth having as a separate exercise rather than an instruction. A three metre pass is rolled with the inside of the foot and requires almost no backlift. An eight metre pass has to be struck, and struck flat, or it arrives dying and the first time return becomes impossible. Players who only ever warm up at close range arrive at a session having prepared one of those two actions.
The two gates do the job the single gate does in the short version, and they matter more here. At three metres accuracy is close to automatic; at eight it is not, and having a gap to aim through turns a vague pass into a measurable one. Groups self-correct against a gate without a coach needing to say anything.
The sensible way to use both is a few minutes of each rather than ten of one. Run the long version first while legs are fresh and the striking action is worth practising, then move to the short version as the group gets closer to the session proper and touch matters more than range. The setup barely changes between them, which is the practical reason to have both.
Save it to your private drills, then change the animation, adjust positions, swap equipment, or drop it into a session block. Or start from a blank pitch and build your own.