paddy no 11 wrote:Surely i'm not the only one who's played with a hooker who's dived over the 5m line off a lineout maul and started celebrating thinking he's crossed the tryline!
Not only was I that hooker, but I also clung onto the ball in the face of the opposition raking my hands trying to get me to let go so they could turn it over, shouting "It's over the line, you pricks!" at them.
Once reffing a junior game and a showboating player who had broken through to score and was under no pressure ran over the dead ball line failing to put the ball down.
Cocky sod deserved all the derision he got.
Once played in a 0-0. You could argue it was down to outstanding defence....but it wasn't.
I played a game where even though I was the 9 all the opposition were shorter, and we barely won a lineout all game, we certainly didn't win any clean ball. I'm 5'9" or so and our locks that game were 6'6" and 6'4'' and in theory we had a competent set piece
I've also played at least one game where somebody has dived in to score on crossing the 22, the winger I remember doing that was about as fast a player as I've played with and almost certainly the least intelligent, he could have gone pro with a few more brain cells but he was nowhere close as was
Digby wrote:
I've also played at least one game where somebody has dived in to score on crossing the 22, the winger I remember doing that was about as fast a player as I've played with and almost certainly the least intelligent, he could have gone pro with a few more brain cells but he was nowhere close as was
I remember a school game when one of our 2nd rows - a big lad but blind as a bat without his specs, spectacularly dived across the 25 yard line (in the 60s!!) planted the ball in the mud and jumped up pumping his fists in celebration, only to be ignored by the rest of the players who played on regardless.
As a kid, I couldn’t see shit. Throw a ball at me and I’d probably drop it. Over time, I got better until I’m just fine now, but that meant I got stuck in the pack, at hooker.
Well, as a kid who couldn’t catch and was smaller than the other forwards, I spent most off my time trying to avoid the game. Resulting in the worst thing I’ve ever done on a rugby pitch.
Our player is tackled and no one else is close. What do I do? I literally jump over the ball, ignoring the ruck and leaving the ball there to be picked up by the opposition and run in for a try.
I remember a particularly dirty England v. SA game at Twickenham in 2002 when the Bok captain and arch thug, flanker
Corne Krige, swung a sneaky haymaker in a maul and laid out one of his own teammates. You had to laugh.
England stuck over 50 points on them in that match.
paddy no 11 wrote:Surely i'm not the only one who's played with a hooker who's dived over the 5m line off a lineout maul and started celebrating thinking he's crossed the tryline!
Not only was I that hooker, but I also clung onto the ball in the face of the opposition raking my hands trying to get me to let go so they could turn it over, shouting "It's over the line, you pricks!" at them.
Puja
Yes. I have done this too! I came out of a maul backwards, saw a line behind me and assumed it was the try line when actually it was the 5m line.
This is an amazing one. I do remember being absolutely bollocked by a coach for doing an elaborate american football style touch down as a teen.
It really reminds me of cycling. I have no interest in the sport but have seen loads of youtube compilations of cyclists who celebrate before the finish line and either crash or get over taken. Can you imagine busting your arse for what could be hours just to celebrate 15 m from the line. Bizarre.
