A wise person once noted that the telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.
Fair play.
We can surmise a certain degree of thinking outside the box must have been at work.
And so to National 2 North in England, with Sedgley Park Tigers entertaining Preston Grasshoppers, the old club of the great international second-row Wade Dooley.
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A penalty was awarded to the hosts some eight metres from touch and five metres from the opposition line. The visitors duly took a few seconds to assemble their thoughts, presumably in anticipation of the inevitable kick to touch and lineout that would follow.
It was a routine followed zillions of times in rugby the world over, after all.
Why would anything be different this time?
Step forward, home fly-half Steve Collins.
As his hooker and tighthead prop moved towards the touchline, fuelling the idea that a lineout was coming next next, the No. 10 known as Piggy delicately chipped into the arms of bearded prop Black who trundled over the line via three or four steps to claim the try.
One Twitter user called the score 'fabulous'.
Bemused white-shirted players looked as if they had just learned their team bus had been stolen and they would have to make the 33-mile trek back to Preston on foot.
Amid a rainstorm for the ages.
Nor did the day get better for them.
Sedgley went on to run out 50-8 winners.
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking,” an American general once proclaimed.
On Saturday, Steve Collins was thinking.
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