Lions fly-half Dan Biggar

Hask wasn’t a popular guy in Wales but he was fantastic craic on the 2017 tour – Biggar

DAN BIGGAR is prepared to give his British & Irish Lions squad mates the benefit of the doubt after misjudging a Marmite figure of English rugby on the last tour.
Wales fly-half Biggar feared the worst when England back rower James Haskell was called up for the trip to New Zealand in 2017 after Billy Vunipola had pulled out injured.
Haskell would never win any popularity contests in Wales and Biggar, then at the Ospreys, was not alone in being suspicious of the ebullient flanker.
But Biggar admits his impressions of the Englishman were wrong and the flanker shocked him by being a superb ...

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