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Back Line

The term back line can either refer to the full-back line consisting of the two back pockets and the fullback, or both the full and half-back lines, which collectively is can also be referred to as the defence, defensive unit or the back six.

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    “Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies’ toilet is invariably known as “Lover’s Lane.””
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “What comes over a man, is it soul or mind
    That to no limits and bounds he can stay confined?
    You would say his ambition was to extend the reach
    Clear to the Arctic of every living kind.
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    That though there is no fixed line between wrong and right,
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    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)