Setup: 20×20m square, ball each, helmets on. No teams, no pairs — small numbers means games where everybody plays everybody.

How it works: Dribble tag: every girl dribbles her own ball and tries to flick anyone else's out of the square while minding her own. Nobody is ever out — lose your ball, sprint after it, dribble back in. Score your own hits out loud. Round two: hits only count off the weak side. Round three, the truce game: on your call everyone must swap balls with someone within five seconds, then the hunting resumes. Seven minutes of touches, turns and laughing, and the night is already working.

Setup: Three self-run mini-stations across the area: a wall lane (or a cone-marked self-toss spot where there's no wall), a jab-lift slalom of four cones, and a strike-catch lane with one spare ball waiting. Two girls per station with 6, four with 12 — odd numbers just stack unevenly, nothing breaks.

How it works: Ninety seconds a station, three full rounds, every girl counts her own reps and shouts her total at the rotate. Wall lane: strike-control-strike, count clean controls; no wall means toss-strike-into-space, chase, control, repeat. Slalom: dribble to each cone, jab-lift on the move, carry two steps, set it down, next cone. Strike-catch lane: self-toss, strike high down the lane, sprint, control the drop or catch the bounce, strike back the other way. Round two beats round one, round three beats round two — the scoreboard is inside each girl's own head, which is the most honest scoreboard in sport.

Setup: 20×20m grid, one bib for the Joker (the second bib waits for round three). Map the numbers before ye start: with 6 play 3v2 plus a Joker; with 7, 3v3 plus a Joker; with 9, 4v4 plus a Joker; with 12, two grids of 3v2 plus Jokers and swap grids halfway.

How it works: Possession where odd numbers are the design, not the problem. The Joker always plays for whichever team has the ball, so the attack always has the spare girl and the defence always has the hunt. Hand-passes and short flicks, six completed passes is a point, receivers moving or it doesn't count. Joker swaps with a teammate every ninety seconds — everyone learns the always-attacking job, which is secretly a support-play masterclass. Round three: second bib on, two Jokers, one for each team permanently, and suddenly it's transition camogie — win it and your Joker floods forward, lose it and theirs does.

Setup: 25×20m pitch, cone goals both ends. Split by tonight's attendance: 6 is 3v3, 8 is 4v4, 10 is 5v5, 12 is three teams of four playing three-minute round-robin games with the resting four as ballgirls on the sidelines.

How it works: Real camogie, small and hot, with the spread rule: nobody scores her second until every teammate has scored her first — so with three a side, the third girl's goal is suddenly the whole team's project. Strikes score double from outside a 6m cone arc in front of each goal to keep swings in the game. Coach referees from inside the game as the permanent keeper-for-both-ends if numbers are truly six, feeding every dead ball back within seconds. Games this small have no hiding place, which is exactly why a small night is a training jackpot — say that to them, because half of them came in apologising for the empty car park.

Setup: One small circle — with these numbers it's practically a huddle — helmets off, one ball still moving hand to hand around it.

How it works: Gentle circle passes while stretching between catches: wrists, shoulders, hamstrings, calves, fifteen seconds each with the ball parked. Then the arithmetic that sends them home tall: ask each girl to guess her touches tonight, then walk them through it — three touch-circuit rounds, Joker Ball, the games — it lands in the hundreds. A sixteen-a-side training night wouldn't have given them a tenth of it.