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- noun rugby - the half backs are the
scrum-half and thefly-half
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Examples
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A lot will depend on the antipodean half-back pairing of Luke McAlister and Luke Burgess, who seems to have settled into Byron Kelleher's boots.
Harlequins face toughest test of Heineken Cup hopes against Toulouse | Shaun Edwards 2011
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I decided I would create an ownership group and name it after that boat ride, and that failed half-back pass.
Liz O'Connell: Last Mango Racing, These Saints Go Running Liz O'Connell 2012
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Youngs, like his England half-back partner , wasnot given time to brood on a humbling Six Nations denouement in Dublin.
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Sean Lamont will start at inside-centre in a midfield combination with Joe Ansbro, while Mike Blair will partner Ruaridh Jackson at half-back, the Glasgow Warriors fly-half given the first opportunity at No10, displacing Dan Parks.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Scotland at near full strength against Romania 2011
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England must rekindle the flickering verve that was most evident when, inspired by Foden and Ashton and their half-back pairing of Toby Flood and Ben Youngs, they beat Australia in Sydney and at Twickenham last year.
Ben Foden: 'England happy to play pantomime villains at World Cup' | Donald McRae 2011
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England have reunited their Six Nations title-winning half-back combination of Ben Youngs and Toby Flood, while Shontayne Hape takes over from Mike Tindall at inside centre.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Lewis Moody returns to captain England 2011
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Centered around the dynamic and potent quartet of strikers Ferenc Puskás, Sándor Kocsis, attacking half-back József Bozsik in 50's.
Archive 2009-02-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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Centered around the dynamic and potent quartet of strikers Ferenc Puskás, Sándor Kocsis, attacking half-back József Bozsik in 50's.
Hungary football team kits Azmie aka switch image 2009
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Stefan Ratchford, Warrington's close-season signing from Salford who started the game as Myler's half-back partner, made a positive first impression, and there were two tries for the young Bridgend-born three‑quarter Rhys Evans.
Elbow injury puts Richie Myler's season with Warrington in doubt 2011
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But the four new signings will all be in contention for Wakefield's first home game of the season against Salford on Sunday week, when Kear also hopes that the Maori half-back Jeremy Smith will have received a visa to face his former club, and the young prop Ben Gledhill should also be fit.
Wakefield Trinity insist they will not be Super League whipping boys 2011
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