Bonus factors caught some flak on the finish of the Six Nations.
Had champions France drawn their high-scoring recreation towards England within the ultimate spherical, fairly than successful it by one level, they might have completed high of the standings regardless of having received one fewer match than second-placed Eire.
Nevertheless, the idea got here good on the finish of Leicester’s win over Bristol on Sunday.
With the clock within the pink, Leicester 28-19 up and every staff having scored three tries, the Bears had been attacking arduous deep contained in the host’s half.
Bristol could not win the sport, however a attempt would ship them two bonus factors and preserve them inside one among Leicester within the desk and the race for a top-four end.
When substitute Tigers’ hooker Finn Theobald-Thomas turned over the ball, it appeared Leicester would take the cash and kick to the touch.
Their coach Geoff Parling definitely thought so.
“May you not hear me on the finish? I wished us to kick it off,” he mentioned later.
As an alternative, regardless of the remainder of the backline standing flat and fatigued and the left-hand touchline invitingly shut, Izaia Perese flung an extended move the opposite manner.
Freddie Steward caught it, kicked a pinpoint bomb throughout to Billy Searle, who fed inside to Gabriel Hamer-Webb to streak in to safe Leicester’s personal four-try bonus.
It was a sensational end.
