
While Mike Phillips may be an outlier of sorts there are more taller scrum halves in the 2013 Championship than there were in the 2003 one. Of the 10 starting scrum halves in 2003, 3 were less than 1.75 metres (5'9''). These are Redpath, Stringer and Wales' Gareth Cooper. Only Maxine Machenaud was below that height in 2013 (and both his starts were in embarrassing defeats for France).
