Sunday Social: Biggar’s antics and confused Scots

Adam Kyriacou
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It is time for Planet Rugby’s Sunday Social, your quirky recap of the serious and not so serious talking points from the past week’s action.

We start with Saturday’s Six Nations action and France’s 27-23 victory over Wales in Cardiff. It was hugely disappointing for the hosts, who saw their Championship chances take a huge blow, and one of the players didn’t take it particularly well.

In typical Biggar fashion, the fly-half was a bit too aggressive when speaking to the officials during the match and this supporter rather summed it up.

Although Wales came back into the game late on, they were second best for the majority of it and left some hoping for a repeat of their World Cup quarter-final.

Wales were on the front foot in the latter stages, playing against 14 men after tighthead prop Mohamed Haouas had been sin-binned. Enter Demba Bamba, who won a crucial penalty despite claims from some observers that he is a “poor scrummager.”

Meanwhile in the stands, former player Lee Jarvis was amused to witness one French supporter enjoying the game in his own special way.

On to Scotland’s victory in Italy where both sides contrived to produce a pretty abysmal spectacle. Scottish fans were not particularly happy with their tactical approach when they contained a number of talented players in the backline.

They did manage to see one piece of individual brilliance, however, as Hogg scythed through the Italian rearguard for a wonderful try.

A victory is a victory though for the Scots and Graham Love was cracking the champagne as they celebrate a first win this Six Nations campaign.

England face Ireland later on Sunday and key to their victory will be the kicking of Owen Farrell, who showed how it’s done in this amusing sketch.

Another funny moment was this interview with Manchester United and Ireland football legend Roy Keane, who showed his softer side to this young rugby fan.

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In the southern hemisphere, the Crusaders continued their fine start to the 2020 campaign where Jack Goodhue was once again excellent in the 12 shirt.

There is regularly a debate over non-neutral referees in Super Rugby and this rather staggering statistic was posted last week. Thoughts?

Perhaps the message has got through after this last-minute penalty won the game for Blues against the Bulls in Pretoria.

Finally, there was an interesting story from America with two NFL players investing in rugby union. This can only be positive for the game over there, both financially and in terms of exposure for the sport in the US.

 

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