Sam Prendergast's iconic spiral kick

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Spiral kick back in fashion – and it is beautiful to behold

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Sam Prendergast produced the longest kick from hand of the Six Nations so far against Scotland at 57.6 metres and it was a spiral.

The end-over-end kick was once considered more reliable and accurate.

The speed the ball travels from a spiral is vastly greater than an end over-end.

The ability to cut off a winger or full-back is increased massively if the kicker opts for the spiral.

It just looks gorgeous when you catch a spiral just right.

Jonny Wilkinson's 2003 World Cup -winning dropped goal is his all-time favourite kick, with second place going to the penalty the England fly-half nailed before.

In third was Neil Jenkins’s spiral to touch for the Lions in 1997 .

The fizz you can generate from a spiral is a handful for back threes, the unreliability of how the ball will bounce is huge compared to the end-over-end.

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