It always seems as though the numbers are all over the place. I get that they can’t just be numbered 1 – 11 as the team is often much larger and will differ per starting lineup but who delegates who wears the ‘number 40’ shirt and does the team even have that much players with reserves & substitutes taken into account?
Who decides who gets to inherit a number from a retired legend for example?
In: 8
In rugby, the numbers actually do correspond to individual positions on the pitch in the starting lineup. Individual players do not necessarily keep their numbers between matches.
In fact the person at the back middle of the scrum is called the “number 8” and some other positions, especially in the backs, are sometimes referred to as their numbers rather than their named positions.
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