Sentence examples for A backs from inspiring English sources

Traditionally reliant on a powerful scrum, they also have a backs division of real repute.

He has hired the former Australia full-back Glen Ella as a backs coach for the series to help with the heads-up approach.

Of this double act Schmidt, a backs' coach by trade, is Mr Effusive while Cotter, the hard-edged forward, is his distant cousin, Mr Taciturn.

Jones said he wanted to bring in a backs coach on a casual basis for the tour to Australia before making a permanent appointment.

Having succeeded Brian Ashton as head coach in 2006 – he had joined from the Parisian club Stade Français as a backs specialist, but was promoted when Ashton answered the England call – he delivered three successive top-four Premiership finishes while restoring the club's reputation as an innovative and dynamic attacking outfit.

Tours of Super Rugby duty with the Perth-based Western Force and the Brisbane-based Reds followed, but when an agent called him out of the blue with a potential offer from "a top-six French team in search of a backs coach", he registered an interest.

It's not perfect, but running a regional theatre is no longer a backs-to-the-wall job.

But the nub of the noughties was that theatres were able to plan ahead, instead of always being stuck in a backs-to-the-wall crisis.

Yet the reality for United is that there was never a part of the match when it became a backs-to-the-wall operation for a team that is bound for the Championship.

As an attacking force they offered little, with the isolated Charlie Austin's second-half header a rare chance for the home team in what was essentially a backs-to-the-wall performance.

There is, of course, a huge difference between Denmark on a mute March Wembley night and the horrors of a backs-to-the-wall 45 minutes in Manaus while Andrea Pirlo does terrible, terrible things with the ball at his feet.