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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.
A rugby league team consists of 13 players on the field, with 4 substitutes on the bench. Each of the 13 players is assigned a position, normally with a standardised number, which reflects their role in attack and defence, although players can take up any position at any time. Players are divided into two general types, forwards and backs.
By the 1950s, the Rugby Football Union had produced a booklet called Know the Game, in which it is stated that "there are no hard and fast rules governing the names of the positions or the numbers worn", but it lists the custom in Britain as being 1 for the fullback, to 15 for the lock (now known as the number 8).
A standard rugby union team formation illustrating each of the positions and their respective numbers. Each team starts the match with 15 players on the field and typically seven or eight substitutes but this varies at amateur level. [48] The 15 players on the field are divided into eight forwards (two more than in rugby league) and seven backs ...
In the rugby union scrum formation, the flankers (numbered 6 and 7) are located on the 'flanks' of the two forward packs. Flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union . Each team of 15 players includes two flankers, who play in the forwards , [ 1 ] and are generally classified as either blindside or openside flankers, numbers 6 and 7 ...
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Rugby union players who played in the position of "forward". Many who played this position played in the earlier years of rugby union due to either records being lost or the position being undefined before reconstruction of the scrum.
Pieter de Villiers is adamant there will be no complacency in the Scotland ranks as they bid to follow up their Calcutta Cup win at Twickenham with victory at home to Wales this weekend.. In each ...