What is the right height and weight for a Centre in rugby?

Question

Inside Centre and Outside Centre

Answer 1

The centre position is traditionally the most skilful on the field. (after the flyhalf )

They have to have exceptional defence as they patrol the middle. They need to have a great kicking game- to relieve pressure and setup attacks.

Good hands to keep the ball moving the ball.

I think the best player in the world is a center. Brian o' Driscoll of Leinster and Ireland. He is about 6 feet tall and 220 pounds.

This is about the average, but it does not matter as long as you have speed and strength, and are able to read the game.....

Answer 2

There is no real advantage to being tall as a centre, other than the psychological aspect of appearing physically dominant. Generally centres tend not to be shorter than 5'10" simply because any smaller than that and you're likely to lack weight or lost speed as a result of having to much bulk for your frame.

Weight is significant as weight effects the amount of power you're going to be able to generate and what force you're capable of exerting in the contact area, however without exceptional speed off the mark and the defensive skills of a backrow forward you'll get nowhere at centre.

Centre is one of the positions in rugby where a variety of different builds can play in that position - look at Horgan of Ireland compared with Matt Giteau of Australia - they're like chalk and cheese.

Answer 3

I found this off the internet, and I'll post the heights and weights of some insides and outsides.

The outside is typically the lighter, more agile of the two centres. They are the "rapiers" that are given the ball, normally via the fly half, to make breaks through the opposition backs before offloading to the wingers after drawing the last line of defence.

The inside centre tends to be the larger of the two centres. In defence or attack, the inside centre is always in the thick of the action, drawing the opposition's defence, making the breaks to make the space for the outside centre and dishing out the tackles in defence along with the forwards. Some of the skills of the fly-half, such as distribution and kicking, can be advantageous to inside centres, as they may be expected to act as fly-halves if the normal fly-half is involved in a ruck or maul.

Outside Centres:

Brian O'Driscoll

Height 1.80 m

Weight 95 kg

Frank Bruce

Height: 1.80 m

Weight: 85 kg

Tana Umaga

Height 1.88 m

Weight 102 kg

Inside Centres:

Yannick Jauzion

Height 1.9 m

Weight 101 kg

Jean de Viliers

Height 1.90 m

Weight 98 kg

Will Greenwood

Height 1.93 m

Weight 100 kg

Gavin Henson

Height 1.84 m

Weight 104 kg

Hope this helps.