France's Antoine Dupont is a wonderful athlete and world-class scrum half, but the best No 9 the sport has since since it ...

The scrum-half's basic role is to deliver the ball from the base of the scrum, ruck or maul to spark the backline, but that is too simplistic and ignores hundreds of other key characteristics. The ...

Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus, speaking earlier Thursday, described Steward as "one of the best in the world". Van Poortvliet was England's preferred scrum-half before last year's World Cup ...