Fly Halves for next season

[Smudge]

A little pedantic I know but must you use the Welsh name for a number ten?

In my day, we laughed at "Flyhalf" as being effeminate rubbish.

In English rugby, (and that's where we are surely), it was always "stand-off" or
"out-half".

I don't loose any sleep over it any more than I do at the ingress of American
terms into everyday English use, but I HAVE to remind my friends across the pond
that an A ss is a donkey.

[northerntiger]

Even more pedantic (and derailing the thread), but an ass is not actually a donkey

[Scott1]

I hate stand-off,too Rugby League for me!

[jgriffin]

Many years ago I knew American ladies at a college in Lincolnshire. One of them, Amy B, informed me that she had just bruised her f@nny. I was stunned into silence by her candour, until I realised what she meant.

I prefer stand-off or 10 (as a native of Ford's home town).

[ellis9]

It's been fly half for years. I've never called it anything else!

The positions are:
Tight head prop
Loose head prop
Hooker
Second row or lock- I prefer second row
Flanker
Number 8
Scrum half
Fly half
Inside centre
Outside centre
Wingers
Full back

[LE18]

I prefer wing forward to flanker!

[Scott1]

I dint like loose or wing forward either,it's flanker! We've agreed twice Ellis break out the bubbly lol

[ellis9]

I suppose it all depends on the era you grew up in as to what you call the positions.

[h's dad]

A little pedantic I know but must you use the Welsh name for a number ten?

In my day, we laughed at "Flyhalf" as being effeminate rubbish.

In English rugby, (and that's where we are surely), it was always "stand-off" or
"out-half".

I don't loose any sleep over it any more than I do at the ingress of American
terms into everyday English use, but I HAVE to remind my friends across the pond
that an A ss is a donkey.

Some might scoff at the whole game of rugby being an effeminate version of, say, shrovetide football. I mean a ball! What kind of epicene substitute is that?

[johnthegriff]

In my playing days fly half and stand off were the terms never 10 particularly at Tigers where the position was known as J. Also Lock was the used for what is now called 8 and the gentleman with his head halfway up my bum was a second row. Of course wingers threw the ball in at lineouts, lifting was not allowed, blocking was an art form and at scrum time the ball had to be put in straight. Happy days!

[Noddy555]

Actually LE18 in my day when I was actively playing Rugby from 1958 t0 1967 it was known as a wing three quarter, which sounded daft to me and I much prefer the term Flanker, and it's always been fly half for me which irritated my P.E. Teacher as he always called it stand off. Mind you he did come from a Rugby League background. I much preferred his deputy who was also a geography teacher and he played Union as a winger for Fylde, He was called Charlie Wiggins.

[Skin_and_Muscle]

Actually LE18 in my day when I was actively playing Rugby from 1958 t0 1967 it was known as a wing three quarter, which sounded daft to me and I much prefer the term Flanker.

As far as I'm aware, wing three quarter has never been used to describe flankers/wing forwards/breakaways/back-rowers/loose forwards. At least not on Earth.

[northerntiger]

Wing three quarter is what is generally called a wing. Centre three quarter is a centre.I presume it's because they are between half backs and full back.

[strawclearer]

Wing three quarter is what is generally called a wing. Centre three quarter is a centre.I presume it's because they are between half backs and full back.

I just asked my (unmarried) youngest daughter what you call the position between a half-back and a full-back. She smiled a very odd smile and replied "Lucky?"

[northerntiger]

A conversation best stopped there, I think!!!!