However, when Saracens recycled the kick-off the New Zealander's clearance kick merely laid the groundwork for the opening try.
The South African charged down Tipoki's attempted clearance kick and did well to make the line for a debut try.
After enjoying a deserved interval lead, Worcester built up early pressure in the second half thanks to a huge clearance kick from Goode.
After Jerome Kaino charged down Giteau's clearance kick to leave the Wallabies back-pedalling, Donald nudged the hosts in front with his fourth penalty just after the hour.
Zane Kirchner's misguided clearance kick went straight to Martyn Williams, and his offload found centre Riki Flutey, who set off towards the try-line before being hauled down.
But almost immediately he made a hash of a clearance kick from his 22, gifting the Dragons a five-metre line-out as the game entered its final play.
An opportunistic lob, just after the half-hour mark, from Aaron Wildig just drifted over the bar after Chopra had put good pressure on goalkeeper Gerken's clearance kick.
Sarries gobbled up Fitzgerald's clearance kick before Schalk Brits roared forward linking with David Strettle, who offloaded for Andy Saull to send Brown over in the right corner.
Worcester went close to scoring the first try of the game when Neil Best charged down Karl Dickson's clearance kick, only for the subsequent drive to come up narrowly short.
Things went from bad to worse for Huddersfield on 62 minutes when Thorman's languid clearance kick on the fifth tackle was charged down by Jamel Fakir, who chased down the ball to score in the corner.
In the same game Mikel made a headed clearance of a free kick in his own penalty area in the 90th minute.
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Watford defender Adrian Mariappa made a sharp clearance after Loach had spilled a Taarabt free-kick, while Taarabt played a superb cut-back that picked out Faurlin, who had time to place his shot but wastefully drilled his effort over from 14 yards as the opening half ended goalless.
There seemed little danger when the Sarries stand-off slipped a grubber kick through to Abendanon, but his attempted clearance was charged down by Short, who was left with an easy run in to the line.
Wales, having been led out by 50-cap men Phillips and Ryan Jones, made a nervy start from Ireland's kick-off as Lee Byrne's attempted clearance was charged down by Eoin Reddan.
Matt Taylor's free-kick rebounded off the bar and eventually fell at the feet of Danny Simpson, whose clearance bounced off a Bolton player and into the path of Lee in the box who calmly slipped the ball past Krul.
Andy Dawson's free-kick and a Dean Marney shot added to the lead but Hull's Kamil Zayatte sliced a clearance into his own goal to give Everton hope.
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