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'Sublime' - Biggar moment of magic leaves Twitter gushing
By Ian Cameron
A moment of magic from Welsh stand-off Dan Biggar in the opening game of the Six Nations has has left Twitter positively gushing.
Wayne Pivac's side enjoyed a relatively comfortable first half in Cardiff against Franco Smith's Italians, and their third try in the 29th minute was the pick of the bunch.
Following quick ball off a ruck in the Azurri's 22, Biggar received a flat ball with his back to the grandstand.
In a sublime bit of skill that evoked memories of Carlos Spencer and Brian O'Driscoll, he flicked the ball between his legs and out the back to the awaiting Josh Adams, who was move than happy to finish his second try in the corner.
Twitter was in raptures:
In truth it was the highlight of what was a largely uncompetitive match, with the Guinness Six Nations Champions going largely untested by their opponents.
At RWC 2019, he started against Georgia, Australia, Fiji, France and South Africa, and was benched for the third-place play-off against the All Blacks.
Biggar's 387 points are the third-most of any Wales player playing at fly-half behind Neil Jenkins (861) and Stephen Jones (886).
Saracens centre Nick Tompkins looks set to make his Wales debut after being named on the bench for Saturday’s Guinness Six Nations opener against Italy.
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It is if he thinks he’s got hold of the ball and there is at least one other player between him and the ball carrier, which is why he has to reach around and over their heads. Not a deliberate action for me.
Go to commentsI understand, but England 30 years ago were a set piece focused kick heavy team not big on using backs.
Same as now.
South African sides from any period will have a big bunch of forwards smashing it up and a first five booting everything in their own half.
NZ until recently rarely if ever scrummed for penalties; the scrum is to attack from, broken play, not structured is what we’re after.
Same as now.
These are ways of playing very ingrained into the culture.
If you were in an English club team and were off to Fiji for a game against a club team you’d never heard of and had no footage of, how would you prepare?
For a forward dominated grind or would you assume they will throw the ball about because they are Fijian?
A Fiji way. An English way.
An Australian way depends on who you’ve scraped together that hasn’t been picked off by AFL or NRL, and that changes from generation to generation a lot of the time.
Actually, maybe that is their style. In fact, yes they have a style.
Nevermind. Fuggit I’ve typed it all out now.
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