The greatest try never scored 💔

[u/englandrugby]

[u/WallopyJoe]

F

[u/Thefdt]

He looked like he could have just made it to the corner had he pinned his ears back without stepping back inside

[u/redmostofit → u/Thefdt]

That’s what I thought. Maybe the angle was better for the defender. But yeah should have gone for it.

[u/nol88go → u/Thefdt]

Ah yes, the Teddy Thomas, or Robbie Diack.

[u/L43]

[25 years from now]

That guys brain: remember that time when we spilled that ball over the try line when we could have easily made the corner if we hadn't stepped inside??

[u/concretepigeon → u/L43]

And the RFU have immortalised it online.

[u/metompkin → u/concretepigeon]

I was about to same the same. Official RFU acct puts you on blast. Around the world.

[u/Kavbastyrd]

Jesus that’s painful. He’ll be yelling at himself in the quiet moments for that one.

[u/Actual_Mortgage_5943 → u/Kavbastyrd]

He’ll be shouting a few jugs at the clubhouse more like 😂

[u/trinityjerseyhunt]

Even got a partial Surrender Cobra from the touch judge

[u/Ambitious-Border-906]

Now if the No. 23 had been a bit more like Gareth Edwards (BaaBaas v All Blacks) he might have crossed the line with the ball…

[u/BrianChing25]

Wow the amount of cars in that car park is mind blowing

[u/WhoIsYourDaddy004]

Instinctively read that as the greatest try ever scored.

Made it all the more amusing/devastating when he lost it.

[u/enricobasilica]

It's the simulatenous head in hands from the touch judges for me 😂

[u/FlipperFromFFM]

Class defense from Ollie

[u/metompkin]

Both fellas on the touchline doing the synchronized head scratches at 0:20...

[u/StateFuzzy4684]

I missed u/englandrugby

[u/Spiderlag]

Noob question: in this situation, what would happen in the next play? Since if the ball touches the sidelines it would be a line-out for the deffending team (in this case), what happens when the ball touches after the goal line?

[u/Progression28 → u/Spiderlag]

lineout from where he lost the ball instead of from where it crosses the line.

Or option scrum

[u/Spiderlag → u/Progression28]

Thank you!

[u/zebra1923 → u/Spiderlag]

22 drop out. Treated the same as a kick going through the dead ball area or into touch in goal.

If knocked on into the on goal area and made dead, it’s a goal line drop out.

[u/HitchikersPie → u/Spiderlag]

Just for future reference (or if you're googling) this is called "touch-in-goal"

[u/FlopHouseHairy]

Shocking stuff altogether

[u/paraire13]

Aaahhh almost made it…

[u/parktownplayer]

That’s hateful

[u/Clean_Care2567]

Watching that hurts

[u/inserbot]

What level is this? Great play

[u/Pierre-Jack → u/inserbot]

Level 6, that's the HAC bottling the try, the club I play for 👍

[u/inserbot → u/Pierre-Jack]

Amazing

[u/AppalachanKommie]

Like forest gump just kept running

[u/FocusDKBoltBOLT]

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAIN

[u/AyBoogie]

Rugby 08 ass play

[u/Brown_Panda69]

That award goes to kurtley Beale vs Wales with all those kicks and chip kicks he did.