Video: FOX Sports highlight their ‘Top 5 Fatman’ tries

FOX are great at giving us compilations of different types of tries, though we’re not sure the front-rowers involved would appreciate this particular description.

By Declan Whooley

Earlier this week they had the best set-piece tries, and last night they were back with some of the best tries from some larger than life characters.

Naturally an Australian makes it into the top two, with Greg Holmes lung-bursting effort against a touring Ireland side in 2006 showing that props can have enough gas when the situation arises.

There is a nice run and jump from WP Nel, with the South African duo of Os du Randt and Naka Drotske combining in 1997 to take the top prize.

We like how FOX speak to the guys about being their number one pick, but tell them it’s a ‘bigman’ rather than ‘fatman’ award. For safety purposes, quite a shrewd move from the Aussies.