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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]
Scrum-half 23 February 1992 (aged 32) 41 Leinster: Conor Murray: Scrum-half 20 April 1989 (aged 35) 123 Munster: Jack Crowley: Fly-half 13 January 2000 (aged 25) 22 Munster: Ciarán Frawley: Fly-half 4 December 1997 (aged 27) 8 Leinster: Sam Prendergast: Fly-half 12 February 2003 (aged 21) 6 Leinster: Bundee Aki
Scrum-half 23 February 1992 (aged 31) 35 Leinster: Conor Murray: Scrum-half 20 April 1989 (aged 34) 116 Munster: Harry Byrne: Fly-half 22 April 1999 (aged 24) 4 Leinster: Jack Crowley: Fly-half 13 January 2000 (aged 24) 14 Munster: Ciarán Frawley: Fly-half 4 December 1997 (aged 26) 4 Leinster: Bundee Aki: Centre
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.
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 ...
The scrum-half (7) (also known as the halfback) of the team that did not commit the forward pass, knock-on or cause the ball to go out of play over the touch line puts the ball into the scrum through the tunnel formed by the front rows of each set of forwards meeting. When the ball bursts or the referee interferes with the ball, the team that ...
0-9 22 The 22 m line, marking 22 metres (72 ft) from the tryline. 89 An "89" or eight-nine move is a phase following a scrum, in which the number 8 picks up the ball and transfers it to number 9 (scrum-half). 99 The "99" call was a policy of simultaneous retaliation by the 1974 British Lions tour to South Africa, (the 99 comes from the British emergency services telephone number which is 999 ...
scrum-half: 4 January 1958: v Wales at Cardiff 430: Jim Lenehan: centre: 4 January 1958: v Wales at Cardiff 431: Arthur Summons: fly-half: 4 January 1958: v Wales at Cardiff 432: Kevin Ryan: no. 8: 1 February 1958: v England at Twickenham 433: Geoffrey Vaughan: prop: 1 February 1958: v England at Twickenham 434: Eddie Purkiss: flanker: 15 ...