Seriously?
Read Flish's post.
You only go under the posts when the dust has settled on the incident. That is surely PT 101
shrug - my question was prompted by watching Luke Pearce on TV running away from the action ... in order to award a PT...
I think that's quite normal, I'll watch out for it going forward
But I think you are rather agreeing with me though: we agree that when awarding a PT, we DON'T generally don't want to be running away from the action to do it.
So why do we have a Law requiring exactly that?
Your answer is 'doesn't matter - just ignore the requirement for a while'
My answer is 'change the Law so that a PT can be awarded anywhere along the goal line'
My suggestion wouldn't have worked when a conversion was necessary, it was the conversion (I reckon) that was the original reason for going under the posts.