Pillar (Rugby with XV)

See also: Pillar

With the Rugby with XV, the pillar (1 and 3) (left and right) (in English: m. ) is one of the fifteen usual stations. One finds two pillars in a team. They are players of first line who surround the talonnor in closed fray, and charged with pushing the unfavourable pillars at the time of this phase of play. In the jargon of the ovalie, one speaks sometimes simply about the " gaucher" and of the " droitier".

They run certainly less quickly than the other players of the team but their role is not less important: the Mêlée S are much more technical than it does not appear to with it, it is not that a vulgar showdown to know what a pack pushes most extremely! Being given the risks incurred at the time of these phases of play to this station, only of the specialists are authorized to play this station and one has, fortunately seldom, recourse to frays simulated to preserve the health of the players if these players already left on wounds. The physical hardness of this station as well as the specificity of the station implies the presence necessary of a pillar among the seven substitutes of a sheet of match, a second specialist is also sometimes selected if the trainer fears a particularly intense match on the phases of conquest.

The players playing this station are generally more the strapping men of the team and are smaller than the second or third lines. In modern Rugby their gauge is around 1m80 for 110 kilos, their center of gravity must be low possible to better be able to play in fray, however there exist larger or heavier players who are powerful at this station. All things considered, the left pillars are less imposing and more mobiles that the right pillars. Indeed, their position in the Mêlée is different. The right pillar engages its two shoulders in the fray and must contain the unfavourable talonnor and the left pillar. The left-handed person engages on the other hand only one shoulder (line!) and thus has only one opposite.

They must be athletic enough for the showdown of the closed fray but professional Rugby singularly widened their sphere of activity since from now on they raise their fellow-members in key and take part in actions of play ball in hands even if the majority of their tasks are ungrateful and not very visible: cleaning around the regroupings for example to prevent the adversary from intervening.


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