The Warm up: Back to the drawing board

Scrum V

BBC

Sports, Rugby

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Salter is joined by former Wales internationals James Hook and Siwan Lillicrap, along with rugby journalist Alex Bywater, to reflect on the latest WRU announcement ahead of a busy weekend in the Women’s Six Nations and the URC.

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome to this week's scrum five of the warm-up and it is a busy one.
0:59.0	We are in the thick of the women's six nations.
1:05.5	The race for the USC playoffs is heating up and we've also got a Welsh rugby union update to digest as they announced that Y-11's deal to buy Cardiff is off the table.
1:11.0	Joining me then to discuss all that, James Hook,
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1:17.8	who also just so happened to ghostwrite England star,
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