No team has lost a game scoring 40 points

[soc123_au]

Welp. Congrats Dargons. History rewritten.

 

[Diesel]

Or, to put it another way, hasn’t won a premiership

 

[Diesel]

The glue factory is going to be working OT

 

[undertaker]

Welp. Congrats Dargons. History rewritten.

Yep

40 points the Dragons scored this afternoon is now the highest losing score in a first-grade rugby league match in Australia.

The previous record was 36 points, which occurred 4 times:

Rugby League Tables / Game Records

Rugby League Tables - NRL Stats & Tables

afltables.com

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Parra almost broke it

 

[horrie hastings]

Although it wasn't 40 pts that game had shades of when the Tigers led Parramatta 31-0 in 2012 with 14 mins to go and only won 31-30.

 

[Valheru]

Welp. Congrats Dargons. History rewritten.

Top tier trolling

 

[undertaker]

Although it wasn't 40 pts that game had shades of when the Tigers led Parramatta 31-0 in 2012 with 14 mins to go and only won 31-30.

Interesting you brought this up. There are some matches that I still remember just like yesterday after all these years, and that is one of them.

Found footage of the last 14 minutes here:


Also, another match that followed a similar course: week 2 final between Sydney Roosters and North Queensland Cowboys in 2014.

Roosters led 30-0 after 30 minutes and looked like they were going to rack up a cricket score, before the Cowboys also went on a points-scoring rampage of their own to square it up at 30-all around the 56 minute mark.
James Maloney kicked a late field goal for the Roosters to win 31-30, eliminating the Cowboys from the finals.

Had the Cowboys won that night, they would've broken the record for the biggest comeback in Australian first-grade RL history (which is currently 26 points, coincidentally involving the Cowboys in 1998. They trailed 26-0 against Penrith, before winning 36-28).

 

[MRN]

Just heartless taking a (joint) record off the Hunter Mariners like that.

 

[Marshall_magic]

Yep

40 points the Dragons scored this afternoon is now the highest losing score in a first-grade rugby league match in Australia.

The previous record was 36 points, which occurred 4 times:

Rugby League Tables / Game Records

Rugby League Tables - NRL Stats & Tables

afltables.com

One of those 36s saw a team win the premiership the same year. I guess the thread can be “no team has ever won the premiership after conceding 37 in a winning effort”

 

[mxlegend99]

That was an NYC scoreline. Though the losing teams in NYC did manage to score more than 40 atleast once from a quick look.

 

[soc123_au]

Had the Cowboys won that night, they would've broken the record for the biggest comeback in Australian first-grade RL history (which is currently 26 points, coincidentally involving the Cowboys in 1998. They trailed 26-0 against Penrith, before winning 36-28).

Was at that game, no amount of JD's at Panthers after the game could erase it from memory. Thankfully it is one of the few games of that era not televised, so no footage exists apart from a few highlights.

 

[horrie hastings]

Interesting you brought this up. There are some matches that I still remember just like yesterday after all these years, and that is one of them.

Found footage of the last 14 minutes here:


Also, another match that followed a similar course: week 2 final between Sydney Roosters and North Queensland Cowboys in 2014.

Roosters led 30-0 after 30 minutes and looked like they were going to rack up a cricket score, before the Cowboys also went on a points-scoring rampage of their own to square it up at 30-all around the 56 minute mark.
James Maloney kicked a late field goal for the Roosters to win 31-30, eliminating the Cowboys from the finals.

Had the Cowboys won that night, they would've broken the record for the biggest comeback in Australian first-grade RL history (which is currently 26 points, coincidentally involving the Cowboys in 1998. They trailed 26-0 against Penrith, before winning 36-28).

I had forgotten about the Roosters Cowboys semi in 2014, i was in Los Angeles at the time so missed the game.