£250,000 to kick a ball? OK...

[illmonkey]

I think all of the publicity they've got is probably worth it.

Awesome that he done it though.

[WorAl]

Lucky Basket

[BoRED S2upid]

They started to do this at our club local paper at every game etc... started at £10,000 and went up every week nobody hit the bar. Think it got to £50k and they suddenly axe the competition!

[Chris49]

IL_JDM said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ep7bxyErw&fea...

Fair play

Reckon the club actually budgeted for that small sum of money to go anywhere?

Edited by IL_JDM on Thursday 19th November 08:43

An article I read seemed to think that an specific insurance policy was in place to foot the bill. Its far to much for a club like that to loose so assume that the above is correct.

[baldy1926]

Saw a guy about 8/10 years ago win a car at the stoop by kicking a 60/70 kick.That was good as he looked a bit pissed and was a large gent-he had to kick about 3 drop goals from various distances to win by the way

[TonyHetherington]

baldy1926 said:

...pissed...large

I think he played rugby

[AB]

Yeah, but what were the chances?

[TonyHetherington]

AB said:

Yeah, but what were the chances?

Depends if he plays Rugby normally or not I guess!?

At the age of 16/17 I was playing rugby 3 times a week (quite a small guy and fast), but I was able to do what that guy did. Certainly not now though

[cs02rm0]

TonyHetherington said:

AB said:

Yeah, but what were the chances?

Depends if he plays Rugby normally or not I guess!?

At the age of 16/17 I was playing rugby 3 times a week (quite a small guy and fast), but I was able to do what that guy did. Certainly not now though

And land it on the cross bar first time? Even when I was playing a lot of rugby that would've been tough to do on the first attempt!

[TonyHetherington]

Hang on - did he have to get it on the cross bar?! Ah, in which case, I misunderstood completely - I thought he just had to get it through the posts!!

I've seen stuff like this before in half time where you have to score a goal from the centre spot, or kick a drop goal from halfway line etc - didn't realise he had to actually land it on the bar!!

[MiniMan64]

It was a hit-the-bar contest but I think a lot of places are reporting it inaccurately.

[hornetrider]

Yes this was a crossbar challenge - Sarries paid 10k to insure the outcome of the result. Fabulous story though eh!

[TonyHetherington]

Right, that makes a bit more sense then that it was a 50,000 to 1 chance

[chrisga]

It was a hit the cross bar challenge and the people were picked at random from the crowd at the stadium if they sent a text message with there name and seat number on or something.

I have met Stuart before (have sailed against him at a competition and enjoyed a few drinks with him), the chap who kicked the ball, and it couldnt have happened to a nicer guy. I think hes genuinely humbled by what happened, realises how much of a complete fluke it was even just getting picked and is loving his 5 mins of fame. Fair play I say! I think he's going to buy a flat, like he has said and not squander it so good luck to him I say.

Did anyone see his epic quote though to sky news though - thats what made me smile the most? He said "this was the second best day of my life, the best being when I lost my virginity!!!!"

[Fourmotion]

I was at the match, and everyone in the crowd was celebrating for him. We all went mad with disbelief that someone had just won that much from a kick!

I suspect they used one of the Lloyds syndicates to insure the prize. We use them at our work golf tournemants to insure the prizes on the hole-in-one par 3s. I doubt Sarries would have any trouble paying it themselves anyway.

[BarnatosGhost]

the club will have insured against it. Not very expensive at all given the eyecatching prize.

And it's never 50,000 to 1. I'd say less than 100:1 for an able-bodied adult who is physically strong enough to kick it that far.