Watch: Rugby player finally pulls off amazing trick he’s been trying for 15 years

He tried more than 50 times before finally completing this astonishing trick.

Dan Gartland | Nov 16, 2016

Watch: Rugby player finally pulls off amazing trick he’s been trying for 15 years /

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You don’t even have to know anything about rugby to recognize that this is cool as hell.

During a game on Sunday, Alan Knuckey of London’s Charlton Park rugby club pulled off an astonishing trick play he says he’s tried unsuccessfully to complete for 15 years.

Knuckey said he failed more than 50 times but decided to give it another go on the last play of the game—a blowout win over the team’s arch rivals. “This may be my finest ever rugby moment,” the 35-year-old wrote on Facebook.

Alan Knuckey with the last try of the game. We might hear about this for a while. pic.twitter.com/l9f6hTWgQi
— Charlton Park RFC (@CPRFC) November 13, 2016

“I would love for people to say they have ‘tried a Knuckey’—that would be the dream,” he told the BBC.

Published Nov 16, 2016

DAN GARTLAND

Dan Gartland is the writer and editor of Sports Illustrated’s flagship daily newsletter, SI:AM, covering everything an educated sports fan needs to know. He joined the SI staff in 2014, having previously been published on Deadspin and Slate. Gartland, a graduate of Fordham University, is a former Sports Jeopardy! champion (Season 1, Episode 5).