Wales star makes Lions squad by 'flip of a coin' and legend reveals he has cancer

Here are your rugby morning headlines for Sunday, May 11.

Here are your rugby morning headlines for Sunday, May 11.

Biggar: Williams made Lions tour by 'flip of a coin'

Dan Biggar believes Tomos Williams's inclusion in the Lions squad was a 50/50 call.

The Scottish scrum-half missed out on a place in the squad, with Williams joining Jamison Gibson-Park and Alex Mitchell on the tour.

Biggar believes it was likely one of few very close calls as Andy Farrell made his selection for the trip to Australia. While he praised Gloucester scrum-half Williams' X-factor, he believes Toulon's Ben White was unlucky to miss out.

Biggar told The Rugby Pod: “Ben White is particularly unlucky. I look at the rest of the squad and I thought, 'where would there have been real 50/50 calls?'

“That nine position would have been one of them, I think potentially between Garry Ringrose and Robbie Henshaw, I think potentially Pierre Schoeman and Nicky Smith.

“Maybe David Ribbans is unlucky but I look elsewhere and I don’t see that many other ones where I thought it was a real 50/50 call.

“Ben White is the unluckiest because that would have been the most 50/50 of calls in selection.

“I don’t think anyone would have had any complaints if Ben White had been picked on that plane, he probably had a better Six Nations than Tomos Williams, by a fair bit.

“Maybe being in France and out of sight, out of mind a little bit perhaps counted against Ben, but he’s been excellent when he has played.

“I will say that Tomos Williams has got that X-factor, he’s got that ability to change the game from that point of view as well. It would have been an absolute flip of the coin that one.” Join WalesOnline Rugby's WhatsApp Channel here to get the breaking news sent straight to your phone for free

McGeechan reveals cancer diagnosis

Lions legend Sir Ian McGeechan has revealed he has prostate cancer.

In an interview with the Telegraph, the former Lions head coach disclosed that he has been undergoing radiotherapy.

The 79-year-old is currently with Championship club Doncaster as consultant director of rugby and is one of the most famous names associated with the touring side.

“I have prostate cancer,” he told the publication. “I have just completed a six-week course of radiotherapy. I feel all right, really, just a bit more tired. I always sleep well anyway so it has probably just added to it. I have to wait six weeks then have scans and a review of how effective the treatment has been.

“I have told the players here before the treatment started because there would be times when I would not be around for meetings or on the training field with them. The players have asked me how it is going and have been very good.

“I don't want to make a big thing of it, but it is important to get the message out about urging people to go and get tested."

Cardiff turn attention to play-off decider

Cardiff coach Matt Sherratt has turned his attention to the club's play-off hopes.

The 45-21 defeat by the Bulls in Pretoria has seen the Blue and Blacks drop down to the final play-off spot, following wins for Benetton, Munster and the Stormers.

The club now head to Cape Town to face the Stormers in their final league game of the season on Friday.

“We’re obviously disappointed," he said. "We wanted to come here and get points to help us push into the play-offs.

“But if I’m honest, it’s the toughest place to come in the league. If you look at their record, they’ve been in last two finals, I think they’ve won 23 of their last 25 games here. There’s the altitude, heat, travel, it’s a tough ask.

“It probably took us 40 minutes to get up to speed. I said at half-time we need to get two things out of the game, we need to get a bit of respect back and try and get four tries.

“I think we did the first. We stuck at it, it could have got messy and then we just didn’t have enough quality at times. We didn’t put enough together to get the four tries.

“You do probably need a little bit of luck over here as well, as I said it’s a very tough place to come and I think you can see the respect that they showed us with their selection.”

He added: “If we just go back to probably day one, in terms of this season being about growth, we’ve doubled the games that we’ve won.

“On Friday night,