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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 ...
Fullback/Fly-half/Centre 8 Willie le Roux: 2013– 98: 83 ... Flanker 10 Joost van der Westhuizen: 1993–2003 89: 78 11 Scrum-half Most points. Player Period Points ...
The Northampton fly-half picks out the Sale winger with a delicate crossfield kick. ... 4 mins: England 0 Japan 0. Scrum-half Saito drags his kick wide of the left post and Japan spurn their first ...
Scrum-half 2 January 1987 (aged 37) 96 Harlequins: Alex Mitchell: Scrum-half 25 May 1997 (aged 26) 11 Northampton Saints: Ben Spencer: Scrum-half 31 July 1992 (aged 31) 4 Bath: George Ford : Fly-half 16 March 1993 (aged 30) 91 Sale Sharks: Fin Smith: Fly-half 11 May 2002 (aged 21) 0 Northampton Saints
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.
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.
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 ...