'Make or break for Welsh rugby' - the view from the players

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Scrum V team hear from two Welsh players who open up about the turmoil of the last season - and the ongoing concerns over contracts.

Outgoing Cardiff fly half Jarrod Evans says it's been 'like a Netflix series' and Dragons winger Ashton Hewitt believes it's now 'make or break' for Welsh rugby.

But is there hope going into next season?

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the
0:03.8	podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.
0:08.6	It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.
0:15.3	What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism
0:19.8	and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.
0:23.7	And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject
0:28.4	you might not even have thought you were interested in.
0:30.2	Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,
0:36.1	you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.
0:39.7	You're listening to BBC Sounds.
0:43.2	Should we call this a special?
0:45.2	We kind of has to be because we're not really talking about rugby games, are we?
0:49.4	It's a player special.
0:51.8	There's been so much talk over the past season, especially three, four months
0:56.3	about the future, the uncertainty surrounding the players that we've decided to
1:01.9	drill down on that exact issue.
1:04.0	We've got Jared Evans here, Wales International,
1:08.0	the Prodigalson, fantastic 10.
1:10.0	Are you going to be alright?
1:11.0	I mean, you didn't your hair special,
1:12.8	everything, haven't you had a shirt on?
1:15.2	Well, you won an only shirt, but.
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