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A rugby league forward pack consists of six players who tend to be bigger and stronger than backs, and generally rely more on their strength and size to fulfill their roles than play-making skills. The forwards also traditionally formed and contested scrums; however, in the modern game it is largely immaterial which players pack down in the ...
In certain sports, such as football, field hockey, ice hockey, handball, rugby union, lacrosse and rugby league, winger is a position. It refers to positions on the extreme left and right sides of the pitch, or playing field (the "wings"). In American football and Canadian football, the analogous position is the wide receiver. Wingers often try ...
Outside backs is used to describe several playing positions in the sports of rugby league and rugby union: Outside backs (rugby league), the threequarters, i.e. the wings, and centres in rugby league football; Outside backs (rugby union), the three-quarters, i.e. the wings, and centres in rugby union football
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The golden point, a sudden-death-overtime system, is sometimes used to resolve drawn rugby-league matches. Minor variations exist. In the National Rugby League, if the scores are level at the end of 80 minutes, five minutes are played, the teams swap ends with no break, and five more minutes are played. Any score (try, penalty goal, or field ...
Rugby league is the dominant winter sport in the eastern Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. [46] The game is also among the predominant sports of Tonga [47] and is played in other Pacific nations such as Samoa and Fiji. Researchers have found that rugby league has been able to help with improving development in the islands. [48]
On 6 October, Tonumaipea was selected the Samoa squad for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup tournament. On 11 November in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup match against Scotland, playing at fullback Tonumaipea scored his first international try in the 14-all draw at Barlow Park in Cairns. He played in all four of Samoa's matches in the World Cup ...
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