Six Nations 2023: Deadline day looms for Wales v England match in Cardiff

Wales players stitchery successful a ellipse astatine training

The determination connected whether Wales' Six Nations lucifer against England goes up volition spell down to the deadline time of 22 February acceptable by Welsh players.

Wales caput manager Warren Gatland had said he was hopeful the substance would beryllium resolved connected Tuesday contempt delaying naming his team.

A solution has yet to materialise.

This takes matters into the deadline time the Wales players person acceptable of Wednesday for the issues to beryllium resolved.

Gatland revealed a grooming league connected Tuesday day had been cancelled truthful players could proceed negotiations and said the menace from the nationalist squad not to play against England was genuine.

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There volition present beryllium meetings connected Wednesday betwixt the players and the Professional Rugby Board (PRB), which runs the nonrecreational crippled successful Wales and is made up of representatives from the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and 4 regions - Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets.

The PRB are owed to conscionable successful the greeting earlier addressing Wales' nonrecreational players successful the afternoon.

The players privation 3 issues resolved earlier they hold to instrumentality the tract astatine Principality Stadium for a lucifer worthy adjacent to £10m for Welsh rugby.

They are seeking:

• Wales Rugby Players Association (WRPA) practice astatine PRB meetings
• The removal of the 60-cap enactment regularisation successful Wales whereby a subordinate plying his commercialized extracurricular the state cannot beryllium picked unless helium has made astatine slightest that fig of Test appearances
• The removal of Welsh rugby bosses' request that players judge 80% successful acceptable wages, with 20% disposable successful bonuses

PRB seat Malcolm Wall has said the 60-cap regularisation is nether reappraisal and it is believed they are considering bringing the request down to betwixt 25 oregon 40 caps.

However, Wall stated his organisation was intent connected pressing up with the fixed/variable contracts which mean players are lone guaranteed 80% of salaries.

Wall besides said the PRB volition invitation the WRPA to beryllium represented astatine meetings and that an authoritative presumption connected the committee would person to beryllium formalised.

Gatland, who said helium was unaware of the severity of the contented erstwhile helium decided to instrumentality to Wales aft predecessor Wayne Pivac's departure successful December 2022, says his players volition beryllium successful the close framework of caput to play if the lucifer goes ahead.

"I don't deliberation determination is going to beryllium immoderate deficiency of information for a subordinate playing against England," helium said.

"If things are resolved they volition beryllium wholly focused connected the game."

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