Salary cap hurting, not helping - Biggar

DAN Biggar feels the Premiership’s exodus of players to France is a result of the league’s reduced salary cap ‘hurting it more than helping’.

- BEN JAYCOCK

The 33-year-old fly-half joined Top 14 side Toulon from Northampton in November. His replacement in the 10 jersey, Fin Smith has excelled in the former Wales captain’s absence with the 20-year-old guiding Saints to the Premiership play-offs.

BT Sport cameras captured Biggar offering words of encouragement post-match in 2021 after a Worcester-Northampton match, in an experience Smith, below, described as ‘really cool’.

The pair united earlier this season following Worcester’s financial demise. Since leaving, Biggar has enjoyed watching Smith’s rise from afar and still keeps tabs on his former side.

Biggar told The Rugby Paper: “I’ve been watching all the games since I’ve left and the last couple of weeks they’ve put together some good performances.

“I had four and a half brilliant years there, made some great friends and I would like nothing more than for them to be successful. I keep in touch with a lot of the boys and have spoken to a lot of the coaches.