Welsh player strike threatens England match and Cheslin Kolbe

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Ben, Charlie and Charles look ahead to the return of the Six Nations this weekend but, with Wales' game against England in jeopardy due to the threat of a player strike, we dissect the problems within the Welsh game and speak with Cardiff Blues captain Josh Turnbull.

Josh tells us why the players are looking to strike and what the likelihood of Saturday's game going ahead is.

As for England, they look in good shape heading into the weekend with Courtney Lawes and Tom Curry both picked by Steve Borthwick. There is also a recall for George Ford, who made a return to Premiership action at the weekend. We discuss where the Sale Sharks fly-half could fit in the new England era.

We also speak to Springboks star Cheslin Kolbe to get his thoughts on the Six Nations so far and his hopes for the year ahead as he prepares to defend the World Cup.

Plus, we look ahead to the weekend's other two games where Italy host Ireland before what could be the match of the weekend on Sunday with Gregor Townsend's Scotland side taking plenty of momentum to Paris.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello everyone, we're back with another episode of the Telegraph Rugby podcast.
0:18.0	After another wild week for rugby off the field, it's all eyes turned to the state of the professionallegraph Rugby podcast after another Wild Week for Rugby off the field
0:20.9	as all eyes turned to the state of the professional game in Wales.
0:25.3	I'm Ben Coles and I'm joined in the studio by Charlie Morgan. Hi Charlie.
0:28.8	Hi Colesie. Wild is right. Wild is certainly right, isn't it? And joining us virtually
0:33.3	on a lovely big screen is Charles Richardson. Hi Charles. Good morning everybody. Before we dive
0:39.4	into the issues in Wales and chat about our special guest as well coming up in today's
0:43.3	episode, Charles, where are you and what are you doing there? I'm currently on the outskirts of Newcastle.
0:49.5	I'm on a very special mission up here to do some work with the Falcons this afternoon, a few interviews,
0:55.0	which will appear in the Daily Telegraph and on the Telegraph Sport website,
1:00.2	hopefully in the very near future. So keep your eyes peeled for those ones.
1:03.9	I mean, what a tease that is. You're not even identified who you're chatting to. I'm intrigued.
1:08.7	I'm intrigued. Charlie, you intrigued? Quite right.
1:11.9	Company, man. Keep the intrigued.
1:13.5	You're going to prize it out of me?
1:15.8	No, no, no. Maybe later. Maybe later. Let's see how the rest of the pod goes.
1:20.1	How did you two fill your void this weekend? I mean, no Six Nations. What did you do?
1:24.0	Where were you? What did you see? Up in the glorious East Midlands. I was at Saints Sale with a few England guys released to action to, in a bid to impress.
1:34.7	Didn't happen that way for everybody as we can get into a yellow card after 14 minutes for money to Luggy.
1:42.2	But subplots galore and more so when we saw the squad that came out later on the next day on the Sunday.
1:49.9	Yes, certainly. Charles, what about you? Where have you been?
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