Running from your own goal line for a try, past 80 minutes

SuprSi

Watching the ITM Cup Final on Saturday morning, followed by the NZ v SA match, both times the only way the losing team could change the outcome was to run the ball the whole length of the pitch to score a try or DG as the game had gone beyond 80 minutes. I've seen this situation a lot, but never once seen it actually happen.

Can anyone point to any examples of where the losing team successfully got the whole way up the pitch and picked up a winning score after 80 minutes had elapsed?

exiledelbows

Shane Horgan. Twickenham. 2006.

Losty Dublin

I'll raise the bar high to begin with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwTi-UeQ7s

SuprSi

exiledelbows wrote: »

Shane Horgan. Twickenham. 2006.

Unbelievable try, but it didn't happen past 80 minutes.

nehe milner skudder

crotty vs ireland was amazing but not on their own line

davegrohl48

Was thinking the same thing myself. Good question, I guess it has to have happened at club level on many occasions.

crisco10

Ospreys went thru 30 something phases a few years ago in the HEC until Shane Williams scored the winning try. Think they only started around the halfway tho....?

shrapnel222

not the full pitch but NZ to beat Ireland in 2013

rrpc

shrapnel222 wrote: »

not the full pitch but NZ to beat Ireland in 2013

That was actually a dream. It never really happened.

chupacabra

While it wasnt to win it, I never get tired of watching this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1g6Oeyx1Q8

thomond2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvyTx6BjadY

It's not quite a winning score in the last minute but this was a try in a Top 14 promotion game.

irishbucsfan

Not quite from behind the goal line but it was the last play of the game, 6 points down.

Ceadog

Not really a matchwinning try, but Carlos Spencer being a complete cheeky bollix. 100 metre try, 80th minute, already two points up, over the try line, stops, and strolls over to the touchline to touch it down. Bangs over the conversion, no bonus point for the Crusaders. Classic.

Snickers Man

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I'll raise the bar high to begin with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwTi-UeQ7s

And there are some numpty commentators in Australia/New Zealand who say that running passing rugby is a Southern Hemisphere invention.

That's the way the game should be played. Right there. Vive la vieille France!!!

pickarooney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QClbEGSzGk3

This one doing the rounds today. Not the 80th minute but a winning try from the end of the pitch.

MarinersBlues

Cardiff Blues managed to win a game in the 87th minute last year despite the full time whistle being blown in the 83rd.

iroced

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I'll raise the bar high to begin with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwTi-UeQ7s

There's also this one. Not the end of the game (the beginning actually and we lost the game) but from our own try area!

Jeeeeeez . Feels weird watching those and realising what we've become. PSA was such a class player. How he turned into such a dull manager, I'll never understand.

iroced

Actually, I forgot (how could I? How dare I ?!) the RWC87 semi-final. Australia-France in Sydney. 24-24. 79th min... And

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Del.Monte

Not on 80 minutes but the full length of the pitch - without pausing - and surely one of the greatest tries of either era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwCbG4I0QyA

locum-motion

I don't remember where on the pitch it originated, but even so I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned ROG's miracle DG against Gloucester Northampton in the Heineken Cup a few years back. 30-something phases, 84th or something minute.

I'll see if I can find the video.

EDIT: Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJ65Og3A2o

Started at 78 minutes on Northampton's 10m.
When the clock turned red about 15 phases later, Munster had been forced back to the halfway line.
On 82 minutes, the phases were up to the mid-20's, and Munster were back to the Northampton 10m again.
Then, on the 40th phase, RO'G slotted the DG at 83:40.

dtpc191991

SuprSi wrote: »

Watching the ITM Cup Final on Saturday morning, followed by the NZ v SA match, both times the only way the losing team could change the outcome was to run the ball the whole length of the pitch to score a try or DG as the game had gone beyond 80 minutes. I've seen this situation a lot, but never once seen it actually happen.

Can anyone point to any examples of where the losing team successfully got the whole way up the pitch and picked up a winning score after 80 minutes had elapsed?

There was this fictional game that happened two years ago.........

Digifriendly

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Not quite from behind the goal line but it was the last play of the game, 6 points down.

I may be wrong but I think Gloucester won that game with a last gasp penalty.

irishbucsfan

Digifriendly wrote: »

I may be wrong but I think Gloucester won that game with a last gasp penalty.

Ah yeah you're right, Northampton scored that try and then right after the kickoff conceded a penalty with no time left. Dopes!

matthew8

Last play, match winner from inside their own 22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx7uosD42L4

No videos of this one, but I remember London Irish in 2009 were 10 points down to Bourgoin in a challenge cup quarter final with 10 seconds left. Nick Kennedy, the second row, slotted a drop goal from 22 metres at the last possible time that they could get another play. They then received the kick off and within a couple of minutes Steffon Armitage scored a try to give them a conversion for extra time. Unfortunately Delon Armitage missed it and they failed to pull it off but it was pretty incredible to even get that close.