Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera produces AFL performance for the ages as 6-6-6 confusion rocks final eight seconds
Inside the space of about 60 seconds of game time, Wanganeen-Milera took a screamer and kicked the final two goals of the game to give the Saints the lead after the final siren.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera wins the game for St Kilda.
At just 22 years of age, Wanganeen-Milera has already established himself as a Saints legend with his effort at Marvel Stadium on Sunday, in a sequence of play to which words cannot do justice.
The St Kilda freakshow, already with 32 disposals and two goals to his name, was released into the forward 50 in the dying stages of the game as his side trailed by six points.
Wanganeen-Milera climbed on the back of Melbourne's Bayley Fritsch to take an screamer about 30 metres out from goal before going back to slot the goal and level the scores with eight seconds left on the clock.
'Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera! What a mark! Name your price!' Alister Nicholson said of the South Australian, who is yet to decide on his future beyond this year, with Adelaide clubs circling.
'He is utterly unbelievable.'
Then, in confusing, unprecedented, and utterly extraordinary scenes, Melbourne were penalised at the next centre bounce for a 6-6-6 infringement when they only had three insdie the centre square, their second of the day, which incurs a free kick.
When the free kick was paid by the central umpire, players from both sides started bolting towards St Kilda's forward 50, but had to be brought back before Saints ruck Rowan Marshall could be given the ball.
'Wait, wait! You've got to have four in the middle, we've got to wait, we've got to set it up,' the umpire could be heard saying while players all bolted in the same direction before realising they weren't yet allowed to move.
'We must set up the positions!'
To give a free kick for a 6-6-6 infringement, the ground must reset to the correct formation, which created chaos and confusion on the ground with players running everywhere, despite the clock being locked at eight seconds.
When Marshall was eventually handed the ball, he looked straight for Wanganeen-Milera, who had burst forward into the Saints' 50.
Just as the script writers would have it, Wanganeen-Milera took the courageous mark going back with the flight of the ball and gave himself a shot after the siren to win the game.
And of course he kicked it, writing the Saints into the record books as having achieved the greatest three-quarter time comeback in the history of the game — 46 points.
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