Northern Edition

Select Edition

Northern Northern
Southern Southern
Global Global
New Zealand New Zealand
France France

Watch: Newcastle score the fastest ever try in European history

(Photo by Alex Dodd - CameraSport via Getty Images)

Newcastle don’t have much of a European pedigree but they managed to break a record last weekend when centre Max Wright scored the fastest ever try in those tournaments when touching down against Worcester after just eleven seconds, shaving four seconds off the previous best mark.

ADVERTISEMENT

Recent Falcons versus the Warriors clashes have been eventful, to say the least. When Worcester visited Newcastle in the Gallagher Premiership last month the match was held over until the following day due to a storm and a nail-biter ensued, resulting in a 24-all draw on a freezing late November night in the English northeast.   

There was no snow on the Kingston Park pitch 13 days later when the teams met again, this time in Europe, but what was served up in the Challenge Cup was no less entertaining as Newcastle edged a 31-26 win in which the try scored in a blink of an eye at the start was ultimately the difference. 

Video Spacer

The Alex Ferguson of French rugby

Video Spacer

The Alex Ferguson of French rugby

What happened was that the Worcester lifting pod got its positioning wrong when trying to gather Will Haydon-Wood’s kick-off as it fell from the sky outside the 22. This led to the ball bouncing twice, inviting Wright to fasten onto it without breaking stride to score in the corner.  

The swiftness of the score in front of a 3,431 attendance eclipsed the previous fastest European try scored by Harry Randall after 15 seconds for Bristol Bears in the 2020 Challenge Cup final against Toulon in Provence. The quickest score prior to that was an 18-second Heineken Cup try for Napolioni Nalaga for Clermont away to Scarlets in 2013.

Newcastle boss Dean Richards didn’t get hung up about his team’s record-breaking breakthrough in the aftermath, however. “It was a bit like when we drew with them [Worcester] in the league here, and we should have won by a country mile if I’m being honest,” he said on his club’s website.

“We allowed them time and again to get back into the game, we showed our inaccuracy in certain areas but at the same time we have got that ability to turn it on when we want to”

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

LIVE

{{item.title}}

Trending on RugbyPass

Comments

0 Comments
Be the first to comment...

Join free and tell us what you really think!

Sign up for free
ADVERTISEMENT

Latest Features

Comments on RugbyPass

B
Bull Shark 1 hour ago
Rassie Erasmus' Boks selection policy is becoming bizarre

To be fair, the only thing that drives engagement on this site is over the top critiques of Southern Hemisphere teams.


Or articles about people on podcasts criticizing southern hemisphere teams.


Articles regarding the Northern Hemisphere tend to be more positive than critical. I guess to also rile up kiwis and Saffers who seem to be the majority of followers in the comments section. There seems to be a whole department dedicated to Ireland’s world ranking news.


Despite being dialled into the Northern edition - I know sweet fokall about what’s going on in France.


And even less than fokall about what’s cutting in Japan - which has a fast growing, increasingly premium League competition emerging.


And let’s not talk about the pacific. Do they even play rugby Down there.


Oh and the Americas. I’ve read more articles about a young, stargazing Welshman’s foray into NFL than I have anything related to either the north and south continents of the Americas.


I will give credit that the women’s game is getting decent airtime. But for the rest and the above; it’s just pathetic coming from a World Rugby website.


Just consider the innovation emerging in Japan with the pedigree of coaches over there.


There’s so much good we could be reading.


Instead it’s unimaginative “critical for the sake of feigning controversial”. Which is lazy, because in order to pull that off all you need to be really good at is:


1. Being a doos;

2. Having an opinion.


No prior experience needed.


Which is not journalism. That’s like all or most of us in the comments section. People like Finn (who I believe is a RP contributor).


Anyway. Hopefully it will get better. The game is growing and the interest in the game is growing. Maybe it will attract more qualified journalists over time.

17 Go to comments
LONG READ
LONG READ 'There will be no honeymoon period for Borthwick's wedding usher El-Abd' 'There will be no honeymoon period for Borthwick's wedding usher El-Abd'
Search