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It is largely unknown to players and followers of the modern game that rugby started off purely as a contest for forwards in opposition in line-outs, scrums, rucks and mauls. This pitted eight men of statuesque physique, supreme fitness and superior intelligence in packs against one another. In those days, the winner was the […]
The history of how it is that the eight positions in the forwards in the game of rugby union came to have their names could hardly be more unusual. The history bears retelling not least because for it supports the contention that while history may pass in cycles, in the case of rugby union […]
It is largely unknown to players and followers of the modern game rugby, that in the very early days it started off purely as a contest for forwards in opposition in line-outs, scrums, rucks and mauls. This pitted eight men of statuesque physique, of supreme fitness and superior intelligence in packs against one another. In […]