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Peter Jackson: When a drop goal was all you needed to see

Peter Jackson:

Paul Turner dropped his first goal in senior rugby on September 13, 1979, for Newbridge against Newport, and his last on January 6, 1996, for the pre-Sharks Sale against Orrell.

At a time when few bothered to keep track of such things, the Welshman’s career total of drops, all 122 of them, barely commanded much more than a few ripples of polite applause. Ironically, what ought to have been a big deal from the outset has gradually grown into one, enlarged with the passing of every season.
Now that the drop is in distinct danger of following the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger into extinction, T...

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