Live updates as Wales squad hold press conference amid potential strike action

Wales will hold a press conference today with the future of players in limbo and the Six Nations game against England in doubt amid talk of strike action.

Once again, the game in Wales has been thrown into disarray with players set to consider strike action in the next week as their futures remain unclear. With no financial model actually signed off between the Welsh Rugby Union and regions, several players are in the dark over whether they will even have a contract for next season.

Even if they do, it will be on reduced terms - with the new model being a fixed variable contract on a lesser salary, topped up by bonuses which many players view as simply unrealistic and even insulting.

Senior players met with WRU interim chief executive Nigel Walker on Wednesday afternoon, where they were told the proposed new financial and contract model going forward is what is required to make the game sustainable.

At the same meeting, the players reportedly gave Welsh rugby bosses a deadline of next Wednesday to sort out the contract mess, while also making three demands; scrap the 60-cap rule, remove the fixed-variable element from contracts, which accounts for 20% of salaries, and give players a seat at Professional Rugby Board meetings.

While the Ospreys held a press conference on Wednesday, at which their coach Toby Booth said he'd back strike action if it came to that, this is the first time that the Wales camp have spoken publicly since the news broke earlier this week.

You can follow the press conference, which is scheduled to begin at 12.45pm.

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