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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.
A desperate Scotland can’t resist clattering into scrum half Grant Williams. Scotland 15-25 South Africa, 77 minutes. 17:55, ... Two from two for the Scottish fly half. The hosts lead at ...
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 29 March 1985 (aged 28) 12 Northampton Saints: Ben Youngs: Scrum-half 5 September 1989 (aged 24) 35 Leicester Tigers: Richard Wigglesworth: Scrum-half 9 June 1983 (aged 30) 14 Saracens: Owen Farrell: Fly-half 21 September 1991 (aged 22) 19 Saracens: George Ford: Fly-half 16 March 1993 (aged 20) 0
Scrum-half 28 April 1999 (age 25) 1 Baia Mare: Alin Conache: Scrum-half 7 May 2002 (age 22) 19 Steaua București: Gabriel Rupanu: Scrum-half 28 September 1997 (age 27) 34 Timișoara: Daniel Plai: Fly-half 5 September 1994 (age 30) 31 Timișoara: Hinckley Vaovasa: Fly-half 24 September 1998 (age 26) 26
fly-half: 6 February 1982: v Wales at Cardiff 702: Gérald Martinez: scrum-half: 6 February 1982: v Wales at Cardiff 703: Patrick Perrier: centre: 6 February 1982: v Wales at Cardiff 704: Didier Camberabero: fly-half: 31 October 1982: v Romania at Bucharest 705: Pierre Chadebech: centre: 31 October 1982: v Romania at Bucharest 706: Jean Condom