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<\/p>\nJared Proffit’s first Super Rugby try was certainly a bizarre one<\/p>\n
Fijian Drua full-back Ilaisa Droasese kicks the ball ahead from his own in-goal area(Image: Super Rugby Pacific)<\/p>\n
Sunday’s Super Rugby clash between the Chiefs and Fijian Drua produced ‘the wildest try of 2026’ as former All Black scrum-half Justin Marshall admitted he had just witnessed something he’d never seen before in rugby.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs moved top of Super Rugby, after capping off the Super Round in Christchurch with a 42-22 win over the Drua. However, the match will likely be remembered for loosehead prop Jared Proffit’s first Super Rugby try, which came about in bizarre circumstances.<\/p>\n
With the Chiefs on the attack late in the first-half, Drua full-back Ilaisa Droasese fielded a kick behind in his own in-goal area.<\/p>\n
Rather than dot the ball down for a goalline dropout, Droasese – perhaps believing there was a knock-on advantage after Chiefs wing Daniel Sinkinson didn’t gather the ball – opted to put a grubber kick ahead of himself to chase.<\/p>\n
However, the kick didn’t even leave the in-goal area, with prop Proffit in the right place to fall upon the loose ball to score.<\/p>\n
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As the unusual scene unfolded, commentator Sean Maloney cried out: “What’s happening here?!”<\/p>\n
After a TMO check confirmed that Proffit had grounded the ball cleanly, with the try being awarded, Maloney added: “It’s the most unlikely try we’ve seen all weekend long.<\/p>\n
“It’s the craziest try of the weekend no doubt and it might just be the wildest try of 2026.<\/p>\n
“What has happened here?”<\/p>\n
On co-comms, former Ospreys<\/a> scrum-half Marshall couldn’t believe what he had just witnessed.<\/p>\n “It’s just hard to describe what Ilaisa Droasese was thinking,” said Marshall. “There’s no problem just to ground the ball and go to a dropout under the posts.<\/p>\n “And there’s nowhere for him to kick it.<\/p>\n “I have never seen anything like that before in my life in the game.”<\/p>\n Follow all of our channels to ensure you stay up to date with the latest Welsh rugby news. Sign up to our free daily newsletter here<\/a> and our WhatsApp channel here<\/a> for all the breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Proffit’s first Super Rugby try was certainly a bizarre one Fijian Drua full-back Ilaisa Droasese kicks the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[36918,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-551566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-new-zealand-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}