In this excerpt from One World of Sport’s coverage of the second test of the 1994 French tour, time is almost up: Philippe Saint-Andre gathers the ball from 80 metres out, with his team trailing the All Blacks 16-20. Keith Quinn comments, "they have to chance their arm here." Nine pairs of hands and a ruck later, Jean-Luc Sadourny scores to seal the series, and cap off a magnificent medley of draw-and-pass rugby and angled running lines — the so-called "try from the end of the world". As of 2016 the All Blacks hadn't lost a game at Eden Park since.
I remember when they began the move to score the try, I initially thought there wasn't much danger. But then they kept coming and I thought, 'Oh-oh, we might be in some trouble here'.– All Blacks wing John Kirwan to the NZ Herald, 3 July 2014
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