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Wales face anxious wait over injured Dan Biggar

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Wales are facing an anxious wait over the fitness of captain Dan Biggar, who was injured in Northmapton Saints’ Gallagher Premiership semi-final loss against Leicester.

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Biggar could be seen clearly uncomfortable after an attempted charge down in the first half and was removed from pitch just 51-minutes into the game.

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    It will leave Wayne Pivac potentially without his first choice flyhalf and captain as Wales face the daunting task of a three Test series against the Springboks in South Africa this July.

    Pivac has already indicated that he would be selecting his strongest team from here until the Rugby World Cup next year in France, suggesting Biggar was very much in line for game time in South Africa.

    The New Zealander still has Rhys Patchell and Gareth Anscombe in the squad, although Biggar has opened up a significant selection gap between himself and those beneath him. If Biggar does miss the tour, his place in squad could be filled by the likes of Sam Davies at Dragons, Jarrod Evans at Cardiff or Callum Sheedy at Bristol to call on.

    Eitherway, the absence of Biggar would tild the odds even further in favour of South Africa, who are widely tipped to beat the struggling Welsh side 3 – 0 on home soil.

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    The 32-year-old passed the 100 cap mark for Wales at the end of the Six Nations. Only six other Welshmen – Alun Wyn Jones, Gethin Jenkins, Stephen Jones, George North, Martyn Williams and Gareth Thomas – have clocked up a century of caps in the red of Wales.

    Yesterday, head coach Jacques Nienaber named a 43-man squad for the Test ahead, a squad which does not include Duane Vermeulen. According to some reports in South Africa, Vermeulen is set to under surgery on a lingering knee injury, although that is yet to be confirmed by Ulster.

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    Can Samoa and Tonga ever become contenders when their top talent is skimmed?

    I think you have gone in the wrong direction here Nick. I think you need to delve down into the rules etc around Moana Pacifica’s selection policies and then you need to understand that a lot of KIWI BORN rugby players have PI heritage. It appears ok for the 4 home nations to pillage NZ born players constantly without retribution but you want to question whether NZ BORN players should be eligible for NZ? Seems a real agenda in there.

    Go back and look at the actual Aims and agenda for MP becoming a entity and you see lots of things enshrined in policy that you arnt mentioning here. EG there is an allowance for a percentage of MP to be NZ eligible. This was done so MP could actually become competitive. Lets be real. If it wasnt this way then MP would not be competitive.

    There also seems to be some sort of claim ( mainly from the NH ) that NZ is “cashing in” on MP, which , quite frankly is a major error. Are you aware of how much MP costs NZR Financially?

    39 NZ born rugby players played at the last world cup for Samoa or Tonga. PLUS plenty for Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.

    Taumoefolau is a BORN AND BRED NZer. However I very strongly doubt he will be an AB, but who do you believe he should be allowed to play for? Levi Aumua is ALSO a born and bred Kiwi.

    Aumua was eligible to represent Samoa and Fiji for the Pacific Nations Cup in July that year but ended up playing for neither. He IS eligible for his nation of Birth too Nick

    He is a Kiwi. Are you saying an NZ born, raised Kiwi cant play for NZ now?

    Sorry Nick Kiwi born and bred actually qualify for NZ.

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