Backs
Generally, the backline consists of smaller and faster players. A University of Technology, Sydney study of the movement patterns of a team's players in games during the 2010 NRL season compared forwards and backs. It found that the mean total distances covered and the average number of occurrences in high-intensity running (> 18 km/h) was higher for backs than forwards.
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“Good speech need not be behind other’s backs; speech behind other’s backs is not good.”
—Chinese proverb.