The Warm Up: 'A lot of what we got wrong is controllable'
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4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Lauren Salter is joined by Scott Baldwin, Ellis Jenkins and Alex Cuthbert to discuss what went wrong for Wales against England in their Six Nations opener, and look ahead to Sunday's game against France.
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| 0:39.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. Well, it's been a week to forget for Steve Tandy following a heavy defeat to England at Wiccanham in the opening round of the Six Nations. |
| 1:03.0 | And things don't get any easier as defending champions France are coming to Cardiff this weekend. |
| 1:08.8 | So joining me to discuss it all this week, Alice Cuthbert, Scott Baldwin and Ellis Jenkins. How are we, gentlemen? Yeah, good. Calm down a bit. Let's... Yeah, settle now. I do feel, even though it was like, it was a massive disappointment, both in terms of result and performance. I feel as though you've all been just itching to come in today. Alex, good thing you actually got here because the canteen ladies were stopping. You asked me, give me a bit of stick to last of the week. Well, they just want to know your opinion. Everyone wants to know your opinion, I guess, on the weekend, and that's what you're here to give us. Yeah, yeah, got a few opinions. Obviously, pretty, pretty torrid sort of weekend in terms of a result, wasn't it, |
| 1:46.7 | against probably, you know, one of the biggest games for a Welsh rubber player on the weekend. |
| 1:51.3 | I think it's pretty well documented, and everyone saw it at me in terms of how badly we played |
| 1:55.9 | in terms of losing areas. |
| 1:57.9 | You know, defensively, I thought we were poor, the contact area, physicality. |
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