From the NZ Herald on a couple of dropkick incidents. One in rugby and one in rugby league.
In one NRL season, Lamb - who sits high on the NRL record books in all manner of categories - dropped a goal and ran back to halfway with his arms aloft, saluting the victory. It took a team-mate to point out Lamb's faulty maths and the fact that the Bulldogs still needed another point to win.
Waratahs and Wallaby prop Matt Dunning reeled off a successful drop goal from 35m in the 2003 match against the Chiefs. Only problem was, his team needed a bonus point from scoring four tries to progress to the playoffs.
Dunning knew the referee was about to award the Waratahs a penalty, from which a kick to touch would have been followed by a lineout and the chance of a try. So his drop goal was designed to miss - so the ref would blow for a penalty.
But it didn't. It sailed majestically over, robbed the Waratahs of their momentum and helped cost them a playoffs spot. It has also given huge amusement, even six years later, as no-one can figure out why he chose to go for goal.
Dunning said after the match: "I don't even know why I did it. It was just heat of the moment."
Talking of heat of the moment, at the end of the season, Dunning and others then went on a massive bender which ended with Dunning breaking a team-mate's nose, a cab driver being harassed and poor behaviour in public, including another team member vomiting over a student. Give that man the Order Of The Dropkick.
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