All cone-to cone drills can completely die off for me but there's 3 in particular that I still see constantly and that's lanework, 5 star handball and triangle kick.
I mean if I have to do these again then I'll just flat out refuse - it's lazy training design and it's lazy coaching.
At local/amateur level there's only so much time we have available to train and to waste any of it on something that is close to completely useless just does not make sense to me.
"It's just for the warm up though" I'll hear but really what are you actually warning up?
Decision making? No.
Thinking? No.
Learning? No.
You might argue that a) you're working on skill development/acquisition, or, b) getting the legs going but 1) no you're not, and, b) there's you can do other warm up activities that do that as well as the other aspects listed above.
What ends up eventuating when starting with drills that are too basic such as lanework is that then we then move to something like I'm going to describe below but we've already wasted time at the start that could be going to something far more representative later in the session and over a year this equates up to a hellava lot of time dedicated to pretty much nothing.
Now I know change is hard so I'm just going to give you 1 kick and 1 handball option that can deliver a proper warm up that activates your players physically, technically, tactically and psychologically.
Hopefully these training activities will get you thinking about how you can alter your current cone-based training activities into something with closer representation to the game and dramatically increase your chances of training transferring to games, which is kinda the point!
HANDBALL OPTION...
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