As the new NRL season is about to raise the value of the drop-goal for the first time in 130 years, the new ‘Rugby Reloaded’ investigates the history of the drop-kick and the drop-goal.

How did the drop-kick become so important that for over fifty years it was the most valuable way of scoring points in rugby union? What’s the difference between a drop-goal and a field-goal? Why is the drop-kick still in the rulebooks of the NFL and CFL? And will the NRL's new rule lead rugby league back down a road it travelled in the late 1960s?

Doug Flutie’s extra point drop-goal for the Patriots in 2006, the only time one has been scored since 1941.