{"id":298533,"date":"2025-07-28T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298533\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:10:15","slug":"jamie-roberts-wants-answers-on-other-potentially-very-dangerous-lions-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298533\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Roberts wants answers on other ‘potentially very dangerous’ Lions act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberts has raised another question about an incident in the Lions’ second-Test win over the Wallabies<\/p>\n

12:08, 28 Jul 2025Updated 13:11, 28 Jul 2025<\/p>\n

Wales star and British Lions legend Jamie Roberts(Image: Huw Fairclough\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Jamie Roberts has moved to shift the spotlight away from Jac Morgan’s clearout in the Lions’ win over the Wallabies on Saturday towards a different ‘potentially very dangerous act’ in the same game.<\/p>\n

The tourists came from behind in the second Test to snatch the win and the series in Melbourne, with Hugo Keenan muscling over the try line with seconds to spare.<\/p>\n

In the build-up to the score, Morgan was involved in an incident with Australia’s Carlo Tizzano which saw the Wales and Ospreys<\/a> skipper clear out his opposite number. Sign up to Inside Welsh rugby on Substack to get exclusive news stories and insight from behind the scenes in Welsh rugby.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ultimately judged as legal, the moment has provoked mass debate and conjecture<\/a>, with two former World Rugby referees – Nigel Owens<\/a> and Wayne Barnes<\/a> – chiming in with their expert verdicts and the CEO of Rugby Australia demanding answers<\/a> from the sport’s governing body.<\/p>\n

But former Wales and Lions centre Roberts has shifted the focus away from Morgan and instead put the trackers on another controversial moment during the game – Dan Sheehan’s try.<\/p>\n

The Ireland hooker took a quick tap and dived over would-be Wallaby tacklers from short range to plonk down over the line for the Lions’ first of the match, which immediately brought about protestations from the men in gold.<\/p>\n

Dan Sheehan of the British & Irish Lions goes over to score his team’s first try (Image: David Rogers\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It triggered comparisons to Blair Murray against Scotland in the Six Nations earlier this year, when the Scarlets<\/a> man was pinged for jumping out of a tackle on the way to a Wales try.<\/p>\n

But the laws are different when the individual in possession is in the act of scoring a try, something which Dan Biggar pointed out on Sky Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s just really smart play from Sheehan, (Andrea) Piardi said you are allowed to jump in the act of scoring a try,” said Biggar.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know if anyone remembers Blair Murray got a try ruled out in the Wales v Scotland match in the Six Nations<\/a> for jumping over a tackle, but it wasn\u2019t in the act of scoring.<\/p>\n

“In the act of scoring, it\u2019s OK. Smart play from Dan Sheehan.”<\/p>\n

Roberts, however, wants clarity on the act, believing there are risks associated with it that youngsters could endeavour to copy.<\/p>\n

“Lots of chat about THAT ruck and cleanout,” he wrote on X. “More intrigued by the law around Sheehan’s (smart) try and its implications. Having seen it be allowed at the top of the game, many (& kids) could now emulate a potentially very dangerous act. Be good to get clarification @WorldRugby.”<\/p>\n

Ex-referee Owens, who has also given his view of the Morgan incident, replied to Roberts’ post, stating: “Getting airborne to score a try in the act of scoring is fine. You also then can be tackled whilst in the air. If you felt he was jumping or diving to avoid tackle then PK. A very tricky one but that\u2019s what you need to decide on to make your decision.”<\/p>\n

Roberts responded, adding: “Diolch Nige. What if he\u2019s jumping to avoid a tackle (which he was) in the act of diving to score a try (which he was)? Which supersedes which in such a case? Can we expect lots of teams to now start doing this with their big carriers a few metres out, with precedent now set?”<\/p>\n

Owens replied: “Good point mate. I think you see this more usually with winger or ur (sic) good self diving into the corner to score. Because this was in field & tackler coming at him rather than chasing him it makes it look different. It\u2019s a tough one with arguments for PK or try both valued.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberts has raised another question about an incident in the Lions’ second-Test win over the Wallabies 12:08, 28…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[5313,23126,110610,4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-british-and-irish-lions","9":"tag-jac-morgan","10":"tag-jamie-roberts","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114931028860280785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}