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"The set responsibilities of a flankers are fewer then all other positions in a rugby team", says the article. What about the centres? AFAI understand the laws, flankers are required to be part of scrums (i.e. has a set responsibility) while centres play the game completely freely and are never required (other than from tactics) to be in a certain position, or to perform any duty. Or am I interpreting the concept of "set responsibilities" wrong? I just think the wording is very definitive, and since it is unsourced I think it should be made weaker somehow. Thoughts? / Kriko ( talk) 15:08, 30 December 2007 (UTC) reply

Yeah you are right. In the context of the forwards though, they probably have the least responsibilities. - Shudde ^talk 22:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC) reply

All right, I agree. Good change / Kriko ( talk) 15:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC) reply

This is just a subjective list of a few flankers. Surely there's a better way to manage this? Hall of Fame flankers perhaps? Depor23 ( talk) 14:53, 11 October 2011 (UTC) reply

In my time in school rugby (mid 1960s) this position was known as breakaway. Andrewa ( talk) 16:37, 16 March 2021 (UTC) reply