swallow dive

A basketball-style finger-roll lob in the direction of a beaten defender against Castres and an extravagant swallow dive against Bristol were two recent efforts.

Perhaps buoyed by the raucous home support, perhaps simply caught up in the moment, he launched himself high into the air, a flamboyant swallow dive to release the pent-up tension of the match.

No-one really minds, because it is about the ferocity of rivalry and battle rather than sweet hands and swallow dives.

Ashton flowed past him, ending with the swallow dive of old.

One swallow dive does not make a winter and all that.