Dan Biggar

Dan Biggar of Wales. Photo: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP

Dan Biggar: ‘We might as well have packed our swim shorts’

Wales flyhalf Dan Biggar says they will be out to prove their critics wrong when they take to Loftus Versfeld to face the Springboks.

Dan Biggar

Dan Biggar of Wales. Photo: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP

Wales flyhalf Dan Biggar says they will be out to prove their critics wrong when they take to Loftus Versfeld to face the Springboks.

The tourists have been largely written off ahead of this series against the world champion Springboks.

However, the most recent encounters between the Springboks and Wales have all been close affairs and Biggar feels they will be able to put up a fight at the very least.

Dan Biggar hoping to prove critics wrong

Biggar says Wales are not focused on what is being written about them but rather getting it done on the park.

“If you listened to it all we might as well have packed our swim shorts and come on holiday for three weeks. From our point of view we have no control on what gets written outside of our camp.

“It’s about starting well but it’s about being realistic. There is no doubt we are going in as underdogs and everything you have seen so far over the last few months… all the signs point to South Africa.

“I think as a nation, that’s when we come alive. We want to make sure we put some pride back into the jersey and we didn’t quite do that in the last outing. It will tell you a lot about players and characters and it’s important we start well and get into it.”

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Flyhalf Dan Biggar. Photo: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Dan Biggar believes that the team Wales face last November was a stronger Springbok outfit, which gives them more hope of competing.

He added: “Rightly so the South Africans are getting lauded and the contrast in fortunes between the two teams at the minute.

“We played them in the autumn and they probably had a slightly stronger side than what they have named for Saturday.

“There were no egos about any of the boys here, we just tore in and got stuck in. It feels like a bit of a common theme and we were unlucky not to get the job done.

“There is certainly no fear, it’s just about making sure we bar up physically. All these players, Kolisi, Faf de Klerk, Wiese, these boys are tremendous players, individually and when they come together.

“But if we spend all week bigging them up you almost believe it yourself. It’s about making sure we park that and making sure we get stuck it into it from the word go.”