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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: Tom Whiteley: 2017–18: Scrum-Half: Tom Whiteley (2) 3: 2018–19 ... Fly-Half: Manu Vunipola (2) 39 Notable individual records.
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 ...
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 ...
Jordan Hendrikse takes the pass of his brother Jaden, the fly half booting long as South Africa clear their lines quickly. Wales go to the air early in their first possession, Sam Costelow sending ...
Fly Half: 1988-02-20: v Wales at Cardiff 856: Gary Armstrong: Scrum half: 1988-11-19: v Australia at Murrayfield 857: Graham Marshall (Flanker) 1988-11-19: v Australia at Murrayfield 858: Craig Chalmers: Fly Half: 1989-01-21: v Wales at Murrayfield 859: Chris Gray: Lock: 1989-01-21: v Wales at Murrayfield 860: Sean Lineen: Centre: 1989-01-21
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.