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Warren Gatland is successful his 2nd stint arsenic Wales caput manager aft replacing Wayne Pivac successful December 2022| Venue: Principality Stadium, Cardiff Date: Saturday, 25 February Kick-off: 16:45 GMT |
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Wales caput manager Warren Gatland has delayed naming his broadside to look England for the under-threat Six Nations lucifer connected Saturday successful Cardiff.
Gatland was owed to sanction his broadside connected Tuesday, but that has been postponed.
The lucifer remains successful uncertainty with Wales' players threatening to onslaught implicit a quality with Welsh rugby bosses implicit contracts.
The Wales players person acceptable a deadline of Wednesday, 22 February to person the issues resolved.
There volition beryllium a gathering 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 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 would similar Wales Rugby Players Association (WRPA) practice astatine PRB meetings, 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, and person the caller contracts amended that person adaptable elements accounting for 20% of salaries.
PRB seat Malcolm Wall says the 60-cap regularisation is nether review, but stated his organisation were intent connected pressing up with the fixed/variable contracts which mean players are lone guaranteed 80% of their salaries.
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Wales person mislaid their opening 2 Six Nations games against Scotland and Ireland and conceded 9 tries and 69 points, with their struggling onslaught lone resulting successful 2 tries.
England find themselves successful a akin concern to Wales, with Steve Borthwick replacing Eddie Jones arsenic caput manager astir the aforesaid clip Gatland returned to Wales astatine the disbursal of Wayne Pivac.
England began with a location decision by Scotland earlier beating Italy astatine Twickenham.
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