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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.
The New Zealand national rugby union team have competed since 1884, and there are a number of individual records achieved since that time. The team is also known as the All Blacks, and have competed in Test rugby since their match against Australia in 1903.
Scrum-half 11 April 2002 (aged 21) 5 Benetton: Martin Page-Relo: Scrum-half 6 January 1999 (aged 25) 4 Lyon: Stephen Varney: Scrum-half 16 May 2001 (aged 22) 24 Gloucester: Tommaso Allan: Fly-half 26 April 1993 (aged 30) 79 Perpignan: Paolo Garbisi: Fly-half 26 April 2000 (aged 23) 31 Montpellier: Ignacio Brex
Scrum-half 29 August 1982 (aged 29) 60 Bayonne: Rhys Webb: Scrum-half 9 December 1988 (aged 23) 0 Ospreys: Lloyd Williams: Scrum-half 30 November 1989 (aged 22) 5 Cardiff Blues: James Hook: Fly-half 27 June 1985 (aged 26) 59 Perpignan: Rhys Priestland: Fly-half 9 January 1987 (aged 25) 9 Scarlets: Ashley Beck
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 ...
Wigan won, 82–6, in the first match, played under league rules, and lost the second, 44–19, under union rules. In January 2003, St Helens rugby league took on Sale rugby union in a single game played at Knowsley Road, intended to have one half under league rules and the other under union rules.