Dan Biggar will no longer be an actor in the 6 Nations tournament but a simple spectator. His international career ended at the World Cup, and since then the fly-half has only had to concentrate on his club Toulon.
Dan Biggar is one of the Welsh legends, with Alun Wyn Jones in particular, who left behind a selection in pretty bad shape and today, it is complicated to say how the Leek XV will fare in this approaching competition. Dan Biggar in any case confided to our colleagues at Midi Olympique that he was really looking forward to watching this competition which raises a lot of questions the day after the World Cup, and not just for Wales.
This Tournament promises to be exciting and I can’t wait for it to start. How will the Irish organize themselves without Johnny Sexton? How will the younger Welsh generation approach our succession? Who will succeed Owen Farrell to lead the English game? And how will the French play without their Dupont-Ntamack hinge? There are a lot of unknowns in this 6 Nations Tournament. Rugby in the North is entering a new cycle, in a way…
Toulon and Real, same fight
Welsh rugby no longer concerns him directly, but this end of international clap was a little hard to live with at the time for Dan Biggar. The player is not afraid to talk about it and bring up something “brutal”. “I was trying to put on a good face in front of the little ones but I knew that something important had just happened in my life as a man and that it would never be the same again”, he confesses. A fairly logical reaction, after more than 100 matches played for the selection…
But today, after “quickly changed”, Dan Biggar remains a very busy player because he has work to do in Toulon. The club has had a few somewhat complicated weeks and must count on experienced players like him to turn things around. The flyhalf also returned to the circumstances of his signing with the Var club. And obviously, he didn’t hesitate long to say yes, given the nice words he has for his club…
It was a Sunday afternoon: I was on my sofa; I was watching a football match between Manchester United and Arsenal. I’m a big Reds Devils fan. There, the phone rings. I look, it was my agent’s number. He had never called me on a Sunday. He had never even called me during a Manchester match! (laughs)
I picked up and then he started checking in on the family, all that… In my head, I was thinking: “Come on! Get straight to the point! » It was then that he told me that Toulon was interested in my profile and that the leaders of the RCT wanted me from now on.
It was an important life choice for me: my second son had been born a few days earlier, I still had several months of contract at Northampton… But I couldn’t say no to Toulon.
When Barça or Real Madrid knock on a footballer’s door, he can’t say no. It’s impossible. I was somewhat in this situation. So, I went for it. (he pauses) We went for it.
Great good came to him. And today, Dan Biggar is a player happy to be able to concentrate “on his club and only on his club”.
To sum up
Dan Biggar will be a simple spectator of the 6 Nations tournament this year. Today, after a rather brutal end to his career with the XV du Poireau, the flyhalf is focusing on his last professional objective: Toulon. He also recounts the circumstances of his arrival.
2024-01-30 14:58:07
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