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July 2, 2018

One Of The Finest Intercept Tries You’ll Ever See [Video]

The World Cup drama grabbed most of the sporting headlines over the weekend, but if intercept tries are your thing then here's an effort you'll want to see.

Eat your heart out, Pieter Rossouw.

The former Western Province and Bok winger was famous for his intercept tries, but I don’t recall him ever pulling off one quite like TJ Perenara’s Superman effort from Saturday.

Footballers are diving all over the show feigning injury, but in the Hurricanes – Brumbies encounter the Kiwi number nine pulled off a spectacular dive that didn’t leave him writhing in agony.

Instead, he was swamped by teammates, and earned Super Rugby’s ‘Try of the Week’ title:

That’s a bloody top effort, TJ.

By the way, if you missed the Stormers – Jaguares match from Saturday night you didn’t miss much, but here are the highlights in case you’re a sucker for punishment:

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