Wildest rugby conversion ever fools 1 million as fly-half hits near-perfect banana kick

A rugby player kicked one of the wildest conversions you are likely to see, thanks to Storm Darragh.

The conditions over the weekend brought power outages, flooding and wind gusts of almost 100mph. Every single rugby and football match at grassroots level was postponed in Wales on Saturday, December 7, but games went ahead in parts of England.

In a match between Plymouth Albion RFC and Darlington Mowden Park in the English National League One, Albion won 24-12 on the day, but it's one of their kicks from the tee that's done the numbers on social media.

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Lining up a strike from the left side of the field, Albion's full-back prepared to kick. A team-mate was forced to hold the ball in place on the tee as the uprights blew wildly in the background. The conditions almost make the posts look flimsy, and one strong gust from blowing away altogether.

Remarkably, the full-back hits the ball nice and sweet towards the right, using the left-dragging wind, appearing to curl the ball through the posts.

However, despite the fact it appears to sail cleanly through the posts, both officials behind the sticks failed to raise their flags, meaning that he did indeed miss.

Albion comically captioned their video: "Did the wind really just move the posts?" and upon watching the replays, it almost certainly seems as if the posts move a fraction to the left as it sails over, causing the miss.

The video has been viewed over one million times on Instagram in just two days.

"Found the ball in the next county," quipped one viewer.

"Impressive," simply said another, who was one of many who mistakenly believed it to have been a successful kick.

Albion also explained that 30-yard kicks became 60-yard kicks thanks to the blustery conditions, with head coach Ryan Lamb pleased with his team's performance despite the crazy weather.

“It was brutal," explained the boss. "That’s probably one of the strongest winds I’ve seen on a rugby pitch in a fair few years, so I thought first half we managed that really well, our forwards got on top of them in scrum time and we got a decent lead going into the half at 24-0.

“We just had to manage that second half as best we could and I think we did that, we starved them of a lot of ball and all of our defensive sets were decent. We gave them a few easy ins, and fair play because they capitalized on them with a couple of scores in the second half, but I thought we managed that really well.”