Dan Biggar: Grieving British and Irish Lions fly-half eyes Test start in South Africa
By Dafydd PritchardBBC Sport Wales
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Dan Biggar s earliest memories of watching the British and Irish Lions are still vivid. Saturday mornings spent at home with his mother Liz, eating breakfast as Brian O Driscoll and Co ran Australia ragged at the Gabba.
Biggar s mum was his biggest fan. From that summer of 2001 together on the sofa to his stellar career as a 92-cap Wales fly-half, she was always there for him.
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SOME DAYS HAVE moved slowly in Lions camp with so little to do on this restricted tour of South Africa but yesterday must have felt even more interminable for the players.
While Warren Gatland and his coaches sat down to select their matchday 23 for this weekend’s first Test against the Springboks, those being discussed simply had to wait.