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Morgan was at the centre of controversy after the second Lions Test(Image: David Rogers\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nThe latest headlines from Wales and around the worldMorgan was at the centre of controversy after the second Lions Test(Image: David Rogers\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
These are your evening rugby headlines on Monday, August 4.<\/p>\n
Legend demands answers over Jac Morgan incident<\/p>\n
New Zealand legend Sir John Kirwan has criticised World Rugby’s handling of the controversial incident involving British & Irish Lions star Jac Morgan<\/a> and Australia flanker Carlo Tizzano during the second Test match in Melbourne. In what came to be one of the main talking points of the series<\/a>, Wales back rower Morgan cleared out Tizzano at a ruck in the final moments of the match, allowing Hugo Keenan to cross for a last-gasp series-winning try.<\/p>\n The incident was reviewed by match referee Andrea Piardi and the TMO, who deemed the Welshman’s actions to be legal, but that decision sparked fury within the Wallabies camp, as fuming head coach Joe Schmidt claimed it went against World Rugby’s “push for player safety”<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, Tizzano also came under fire for his reaction to Morgan’s challenge as he fell to the floor clutching his face, protesting to the referee. While Schmidt later revealed that data from the flanker’s mouthguard showed he had sustained a “high magnitude impact\u201d<\/a>, his player was widely accused of simulation.<\/p>\n World Rugby later provided feedback to both the Wallabies and Lions coaching staff over the decision, but it was not made public, while the governing body’s CEO Alan Gilpin also refused to comment on it during a press conference after the match.<\/p>\n However, this has not sat well with Kirwan, who has called on World Rugby to be crystal clear in its rulings on potential diving cases, in order to stamp it out of the game completely. 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 \u201cI keep coming back to our new leadership and chairman, but we need to start making some decisions publicly, and they need to show leadership,\u201d he told the Rivals<\/a> podcast. \u201cThe referee leadership did not come out and defend the decision in the second Test, and our game needs to understand what we are going to do about diving.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s a professional sport now, and players will try to milk a penalty. Our leadership needs to come out and say that any sort of diving is going to be dealt with like this. I would say every single South African who sees someone dive will absolutely hate it and hate the person who has dived.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not saying that Tizzano dived, but he made a gesture, trying to milk a penalty. But he takes the brunt of the opinion, and he is the brunt of something in our game that needs to have a decision made on it.<\/p>\n “What are we going do about people trying to milk a penalty? That\u2019s the question, and we need an answer from our leadership, and then we move forward; otherwise, we are going to get it all the time.”<\/p>\n Lions star banned for ‘reckless’ act<\/p>\n By PA News Agency<\/p>\n British and Irish Lions hooker Dan Sheehan has been suspended for four matches following his illegal clearout of Australia\u2019s Tom Lynagh during Saturday\u2019s third Test in Sydney.<\/p>\n The sanction will be reduced to three games, subject to the Ireland and Leinster player successfully completing a coaching intervention course.<\/p>\n Sheehan\u2019s challenge in the first half of the Lions\u2019 22-12 loss at Accor Stadium<\/a> went unpunished by Georgian referee Nika Amashukeli before he was retrospectively cited. Replays showed the 26-year-old\u2019s elbow appeared to make contact with his opponent\u2019s head.<\/p>\n Wallabies fly-half Lynagh kicked a penalty moments after the incident but was then withdrawn for a head injury assessment (HIA) and did not return.<\/p>\n