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What position in Rugby would suit me the best?

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I'm giving up playing soccer at university for rugby. Why? Because basically I am looking for something new and exciting, and it will be a bit easier to balance school work.

However, I am 6'0 148 lbs (183cm 67kg). I have been trying to add 10lbs over summer break...but the combination of me improving my diet and a 7-day training regiment has had an adverse effect as I have lost weight. I am fast, and can kick with accuracy and power (as I've also played Gaelic Football for years and years). Though I am cautious of how well i could take a hit from a guy 100lbs heavier than me. I'm very competitive...but part of me is scared that I just wont be able to take the beating.

What position would you recommend for me to look into?

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  1. Try Halfback (scrum half) if you can keep talking for 80mins with out shutting up then you would be good at half back, as they need to keep talking to the fowards and the backs and if your halfback you can sometimes get into the rucks and mauls more offten than the other backs. Or try wing, wings always a good place to start off people who aren't too good or new people. Try playing a bit of Rugby League too if you can do that because that really helps with tackling. But if people ever say your too small don't listen to them. Everyone said I was too small and all I was was a bad winger who only got a few minutes a game. But one game I was in the back line, But decided to go into most of the rucks and mauls. Then the coach put me in the fowards as a Flanker and now I get lots of play time.


  2. start as fullback, but you have to be a strong defensive player as you are the last defensive line...

    so maybe start off in the wings id say haha thats a lot of running there but yeah definatly backline of some sort

  3. if i was a coach i would play you as left rightout.. can you peel oranges??

  4. with your soccer experience, id start you at fullback or wing.

    you already know how to read the field. you already know how to attack into space.

    you are way too light to be an effective forward. if you gain 60lbs you could be a great flanker/ number 8.

  5. You'll be in the backs for sure, you're tall enough but not big enough to be a forward.  Of course its going to depend on the grade you play. a lot of universities have weight grades for new players so that you play people who are around 10lbs of you until you get used to the sport.

    Go along to your first practise and tell your coach you think you're a back, but you're willing to try everything.  Then try everything, eventually you'll find a position that you enjoy and that you're good at.

  6. You are a bit on the small side (even for a back) for University Rugby.

    But don't let that stop you. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog on the night.

    If you can kick well maybe try centres if you can pass well and make space or fullback if you can tackle well and handle pressure. I'd say fly half but you need to have been playing a long time to play there.

  7. Buddy dont even listen to half of these answers.  A good feel for the game would suit you to start as a Winger. Learn the ropes and get a bit more game time then you and only you will know where you'd best play.  You are lean but lean doesn't dictate your heart and balls you have and that my friend is what rugby is all about.  Rugby is about how hard you get hit and stand back up, some huge 140kg prop running over you and you get back up.  Winning a game with a try then the next week giving a penalty away to lose the game, thats what rugby is about.  Rugby is something you live.  Any person who has given you c**p for this type of a question has never played rugby.  They may state that they are great players and done great things but rugby should be something we encourage all people to play no matter there size, shape, ethnic group.  This is what rugby is my friend.

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