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| Venue: Principality Stadium, Cardiff Date: Saturday, 25 February Kick-off: 16:45 GMT |
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Wales' Six Nations lucifer against England successful Cardiff volition spell up aft the Welsh players decided to play.
Saturday's crippled was successful uncertainty with players threatening not to crook up due to the fact that of a quality with Welsh rugby bosses implicit contracts.
Wales caput manager Warren Gatland had said helium was assured the substance would beryllium resolved connected Tuesday contempt delaying naming his broadside and cancelling training.
Gatland present names his broadside connected Thursday.
The crippled being called disconnected would person outgo the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) astir £10m.
Gatland revealed a grooming league connected Tuesday day had been cancelled truthful players could proceed negotiations and admitted the onslaught menace was genuine.
The Wales players had acceptable a deadline of Wednesday for the issues to beryllium resolved.
There was a gathering connected Wednesday greeting of the Professional Rugby Board (PRB), which runs the nonrecreational crippled successful Wales and is made up of representatives from the WRU and 4 regions - Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets.
The PRB, including seat Malcolm Wall, WRU acting main enforcement Nigel Walker and determination bosses, past met much than 100 of Wales' nonrecreational players successful the Vale of Glamorgan hotel, which is the nationalist squad's grooming base.
Walker and Wall attended a virtual WRU committee gathering earlier a further gathering with Wales skipper Ken Owens.
The Wales players wanted 3 issues resolved earlier they agreed to instrumentality the transportation astatine the Principality Stadium.
They were seeking:
- Wales Rugby Players' Association (WRPA) practice astatine PRB meetings.
- The removal of the contentious 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' demands that players judge 80% successful acceptable wages, with 20% disposable successful bonuses.
A compromise bundle has been reached and the 60-cap volition beryllium reduced to 25.
Players and agents volition person the enactment of a fixed declaration oregon a fixed and adaptable deal.
More to follow.
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