Wednesday 8 April 2009

Last minute wins

One of the best things in sport, any sport really, is when one team snatches in the dieing moments. When a team somehow rescues the game from the jaws of defeat, often in moves that you only get when players are desperate from hail marys in American Football, goalkeepers going up for corners in football to wonderful 80 metres passing moves in Rugby League.
Here are some of my favorite last minute wins from rugby league.

Leeds Vs Bradford Millennium Stadium Cardiff.
Lets get this one out of the way first. The game was a rather strange one, for some reason both Leeds and Bradford forgot how to defend for most of it and try after try was scored. However Bradford seemed to have got win when, with only 2 minutes remaining, Leeds lost the ball in the tackle and a Bradford player picked it up. Bradford were leading by 2 points at this point.
Then this happened.
Yep Steve Ganson robbed Bradford with not one, but two wrong decisions. However that didn't stop me from enjoying it.

St Helens Vs Bradford - Play off Elimination 2000
This is the only part of the game I have ever seen. All you need to know about this game is that the winner got to go to the final and the loser went home.
With just 10 seconds left on the clock the score is 11-10 to Bradford and the ball is deep in St Helens half.
Then St Helens produced this
Now it is simply known as Wide to West.

Queensland Vs New South Wales - State of Origin: Game one: 1994

The biggest game in rugby league. It's the origin game between the two rugby league playing states of Austeria. These are the best players in the world, something like this shouldn't happen. With New South Wales winning 12-10 and once again the opposing side in their own half with hardly any time left on the clock.
"That's not a try, that's a mircle!"