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[Lobbygobbler]

Anyone know what the longest pass was which created a try? I.e. the last pass prior to scoring the try

[chuffer]

5 seconds

[southstand loiner]

back in the 70s john holmes did a pass in the jpt final against salford at fartown from around the middle of the field to john atkinson on the touchline who scored in the corner.
no idea if its the longest pass but it was a pretty long one which he had to do gridiron style because of the lenth of the pass

[Mumby Magic]

Iestyn Harris will be up there. At a guess I'd say 40 yards.

[Manx RL]

Forward or backward?

[shrek]

Forward or backward?

[HappyDave]

I realise this won't be the longest pass to set up a Try but it's certainly a very long pass.

[fieldofclothofgold]

Got to be the John Holmes pass to John Atkinson John Player trophy final at Fartown 1973.Atky on th wing waving and the late grat John Holmes in centre field,he threw an over head grid iron style pass,and it wasn't forward either

[fieldofclothofgold]

Got to be the John Holmes pass to John Atkinson John Player trophy final at Fartown 1973.Atky on th wing waving and the late grat John Holmes in centre field,he threw an over head grid iron style pass,and it wasn't forward either

[Old Frightful]

Got to be the John Holmes pass to John Atkinson John Player trophy final at Fartown 1973.Atky on th wing waving and the late grat John Holmes in centre field,he threw an over head grid iron style pass,and it wasn't forward either

Got to be the John Holmes pass to John Atkinson John Player trophy final at Fartown 1973.Atky on th wing waving and the late grat John Holmes in centre field,he threw an over head grid iron style pass,and it wasn't forward either

So it was forward then?

As Gerard Kenny once sung, New York, New York, so good etc, etc...

[hindle xiii]

I expect Saintslass along any minute to say she's seens plenty of Long passes for tries, and Cunningham and Roby and...

[Old Frightful]

I expect Saintslass along any minute to say she's seens plenty of Long passes for tries, and Cunningham and Roby and...

Like I said, you should have quit while you were ahead...

[OMEGA]

Wally Lewis must be in with a shout he was world famous for it.

Tim Smith fired a pin point 35/40 yarder off the left hand at Cas today

[Matt J]

Iestyn Harris will be up there. At a guess I'd say 40 yards.

Was gonna say Harris, had a right pass on him.... did it a few times for Fev.

[southstand loiner]

Forward or backward?

1970s not super league style so take a guess

[Futtocks]

Forward or backward?

World Sevens in Sydney - the USA hadn't managed to score, so, coming to the end of their match, so they snapped the ball back and fired off a huge Gridiron-style pass straight down the field to a lurking player, who spiked the ball into the ground under the posts and did a big celebration. Big laughs all round, and even the referee saw the funny side.

[Bostik Bailey]

I think any pass from Harris would be the one, after all it must be a few hundred miles from Leeds to the Outer Hebridies








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[trakl]

Wally Lewis must be in with a shout he was world famous for it.

Wally Lewis - (in) famously - couldn't make the starting line-up for the immortal 1982 Kangaroos courtesy of a certain Brett Kenny but I remember his coming on as a sub at, I think, Central Park (Headingley?) and drawing a gasp after a right-left pass from the centre of the field on the run that seemed to travel like a bullet... of course, if I were to watch it now, I'd probably see that it only travelled a couple of yards...

The best pass I've ever seen - in terms of being the most unexpected and unorthodox and just plain bloody brilliant - was a right-handed pass bowled over the left shoulder by Henry Paul for Wigan v London at Brentford's football ground in, I think, the last (truncated) winter season that sailed straight into the arms of a befuddled Gary Connolly for a Wigan score.,, now, if anyone has footage of this, I'd be really grateful.

[ehbandit]

http://www.youtube.c...&feature=relmfu