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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]
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 ...
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.
Scrum-half 12 May 1995 (aged 28) 26 Glasgow Warriors: Ali Price: Scrum-half 12 May 1993 (aged 30) 66 Edinburgh: Ben White: Scrum-half 27 May 1998 (aged 25) 18 Toulon: Adam Hastings: Fly-half 5 October 1996 (aged 27) 27 Gloucester: Ben Healy: Fly-half 29 June 1999 (aged 24) 4 Edinburgh: Finn Russell : Fly-half
Scrum-half 25 May 1997 (aged 25) 1 Northampton Saints: Jack van Poortvliet: Scrum-half 15 May 2001 (aged 21) 7 Leicester Tigers: Ben Youngs: Scrum-half 5 September 1989 (aged 33) 121 Leicester Tigers: Owen Farrell: Fly-half 24 September 1991 (aged 31) 101 Saracens: Fin Smith: Fly-half 11 May 2002 (aged 20) 0
The signings of former Scotland and Lions scrum-half Mike Blair from CA Brive, Saracens flanker Andy Saull, Scotland hooker Scott Lawson from London Irish, former Scotland fly half Phil Godman and one time France prop Franck Montanella showed the desire of the club to compete upon return to the top flight.
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.
Wearing jersey number 6, this player is one of the two half backs in a team, partnering the scrum-half. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sometimes known as the pivot or second receiver, [ 4 ] in a traditional attacking 'back-line' (No. 1-7) [ 5 ] play, the five-eighth would receive the ball from the halfback, [ 6 ] who is the first receiver of the ball from ...