Naming
Flankers can be known by several different names. Historically they were often called wing-forwards, although this name had a more specific meaning in New Zealand when they used a now archaic scrum formation. This term is rarely used anymore, but the terms breakaway, flank, and flank forward are sometimes used. Collectively the flankers, as well as the number eight can also be known as the back-row forwards—referring to their scrum positions—or as loose-forwards because they are loosely bound to the scrum.
Read more about this topic: Flanker (rugby Union)
Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)