Watch: Sale's Arron Reed scores ‘try of the season'
Winger Arron Reed scored one of the tries of the season for Sale Sharks, beating three Saracens defenders from fully 95 metres out. After pouncing on a Saracens' turnover deep inside their own 22, Sale spread the ball to Reed who received the ball five metres from his own try-line.
He immediately turned Nick Tompkins inside out before cutting inside to go past winger Angus Hall. There was still plenty of work to do as he burst into open space approaching the halfway line with Elliot Daly acting as the last line of Saracens' defence.
But the diminutive Reed, who has won three caps for Scotland, cut back towards the touchline and through the grasp of the England utility man.
THIS. IS. AMAZING.
Arron Reed has maybe just scored the try of the season for @SaleSharksRugby 🤯 #GallagherPrem | #SALvSAR pic.twitter.com/yX8UEV0LPF
— Rugby on TNT Sports (@rugbyontnt) April 25, 2025
Tompkins, whose blood had recovered from being twisted, had got back but did not have the legs to catch Reed who finished ecstatically among the Sale replacements.
Speaking to TNT Sports later in the game, Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson said: 'He's greased lightning isn't he? He has not had a lot of space in recent weeks but he is really, really quick as you can see. If we hag to give him five metres in front of his own line and if that's where the space is then we have to give it to him.'
Former England fly-half Andy Goode said on social media: 'The try of the season in the Premiership done and dusted for Arron Reed! Wowsers have a watch!'
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