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There are four backs: scrum-half, fly-half, centre, and wing. The scrum-half feeds the ball into the scrum. The other three players form the backline. Since play is much more open in sevens, with rucks and mauls generally kept to a minimum, most sevens players are backs or loose forwards in fifteen-a-side teams. [109]
Numbered 7, the scrum-half or half-back is usually involved in directing the team's play. The position is sometimes referred to as "first receiver", as half-backs are often the first to receive the ball from the dummy-half after a play-the-ball. This makes them important decision-makers in attack.
Hooker Barry Williams retired from international rugby at the start of May 2004, [2] and several players were unavailable due to injury, including lock Robert Sidoli, scrum-half Gareth Cooper, [3] hooker Robin McBryde and fly-half Stephen Jones, which meant a less experienced squad was named for the tour, and there were call-ups for the ...
Another common system is to list the backs 15–9, followed by the forwards 1–8, although traditionalists prefer 15–9, 1–5, 6,8,7, i.e. the forwards in scrum order. By 1950, all the home nations used numbers; England, Scotland and Wales used the system described above, while France and Ireland did the reverse, using what would now be ...
Scrum-half 2 January 1987 (aged 37) 96 Harlequins: Alex Mitchell: Scrum-half 25 May 1997 (aged 26) 11 Northampton Saints: Ben Spencer: Scrum-half 31 July 1992 (aged 31) 4 Bath: George Ford : Fly-half 16 March 1993 (aged 30) 91 Sale Sharks: Fin Smith: Fly-half 11 May 2002 (aged 21) 0 Northampton Saints
Tomos Geraint Williams (born 1 January 1995) is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Gloucester and the Wales national team. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Club career
Ali Price makes his first Scotland start in over a year against Fiji on Saturday, with head coach Gregor Townsend saying he is "in the best form" of the available scrum-half options.
Fullback/Fly-half/Centre 8 Willie le Roux: 2013– 98: 83 ... Flanker 10 Joost van der Westhuizen: 1993–2003 89: 78 11 Scrum-half Most points. Player Period Points ...