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Scrum-half is the name of playing positions in both rugby football sports: Scrum-half (rugby league) Scrum-half (rugby union) This page was last edited on 30 ...
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.
Leicester Tigers and England scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet has signed a new deal with the Premiership club. The 23-year-old has made 81 first-team appearances since emerging from the club's ...
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.
Originally a fly half he switched position inside to scrum half and played as Leicester won the Under 18s academy league in the 2017-18 and 2018–19 seasons. [3] Following the success of the academy side, in July 2019, van Poortvliet was one of 11 players offered professional terms to join the club's development squad. [4]
Fijian Drua scrumhalf Frank Lomani has been banned for six weeks for striking Melbourne Rebels lock Josh Canham's head with an elbow during a Super Rugby Pacific match last weekend. Lomani was ...
Sir Gareth Owen Edwards CBE (born 12 July 1947) is a Welsh former rugby union player who played scrum-half and has been described by the BBC as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey". [1] In 2003, in a poll of international rugby players conducted by Rugby World magazine, Edwards was declared the greatest player of all time.