screenshot of Sydney Morning Herald article from 27/7/25 Sport Wallabies OPINION Rugby rediscovered common sense -and it robbed the Wallabies By Paul Cully July 27, 2025 9:45am The Wallabies are seething, and it's easy to see why. In a common-sense world, the Jac Morgan cleanout on Carlo Tizzano in the dying moments of the Wallabies' 29-26 shouldn't be a penalty - the Welshman was low enough to generate the power to drive through Tizzano and get him off the ball. But that is not the way rugby has been officiated for years. Anyone who has watched any volume of rugby for the past six years has seen similar incidents, or less, pored over incessantly by TMOs, producing penalties or even cards. Fans know, coaches know it and players know it - in fact TMOs are obliged to come in if a plaver is exhibiting signs
Paul Cully often finds ways to take a clever dig here and there, not to mention ignorance of the laws, but this contortion of what happened into [a return to] "common sense" is ridiculous
"low" isn't sufficient to make an action legal, and Morgan clearly didn't "drive through Tizzano" #WALvLIO
