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Many argue the ‘Superman’ try is dangerous. World Rugby say play on
@Source: theage.com.au
It got a bit lost in the heated Morgan-Tizzano debate, but Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt also questioned the Sheehan dive in his post-game comments. Under World Rugby’s laws, players are prohibited from jumping over defenders, but are allowed to dive to score a try – and be tackled midair while diving. “It’s illegal to jump the tackle, but he dived over. I guess what it now challenges World Rugby to do is if we get two guys going in to go low, and a guy dives over like that, he’s pretty much head first,” Schmidt said. “So what do we do to stop him scoring, apart from stopping his head? Because there’s not much else you can do. I feel for the players because they get backed into a bit of a corner around head contact.” It looked like a premeditated plan from Sheehan, after he’d taken a tap and run low shortly minutes early but was stopped. But the hooker told Stan Sport’s Lions Central he’d done off the cuff.
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