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A normal rugby union team formation illustrating each of the positions and their respective numbers. In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (wearing jerseys numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15). In addition, there may be up to eight replacement players "on the bench", numbered 16–23.
Outside backs is used to describe several playing positions in the sports of rugby league and rugby union: Outside backs (rugby league), the threequarters, i.e. the wings, and centres in rugby league football; Outside backs (rugby union), the three-quarters, i.e. the wings, and centres in rugby union football
An exception is if a player knocks the ball forward in attempting to block an opponent's kick – a 'charge down'. Passing is an integral part of rugby union, as it allows the ball to be easily and quickly distributed to teammates. The backs are the major participants of passes, and they are used to put running players into space.
Force Back, Force 'em back, [1] [2] Force Them Back, Forcing Back, Forcey Backs or Forcings Back is a game played by students, particularly in Australia and New Zealand, at lunch or recess. It is played with football (typically oblique spheroid shaped or sometimes round). Some skills that are improved in this are kicking, aim, distance control ...
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 ...
The player at five-eighths, also known as the five-eighth, [1] could take the ball back to the forwards or pass it on to the three-quarters. [2] This backline innovation occurred before the split between rugby union and rugby league in Australia and New Zealand and the term is now commonly used for the five-eighth position in rugby league ...
Two years after masterminding England’s Rugby World Cup glory, Woodward arrived at St Mary’s to much ridicule, summed up by a newspaper cartoon which depicted two players lifting up striker ...
Where the line-out is taken depends on the manner in which the ball was played into touch. [3] If it is kicked directly into touch, without first landing in the field-of-play or touching the referee or an opponent who is not in touch, the line-out is formed in line with the spot from where it was kicked, with two exceptions: if the kick was a penalty kick or if the kicker had at least one foot ...