'The outside pressures are pretty overwhelming at the minute.'
DRAGONS CENTRE JACK Dixon has laid bare the stark reality faced by players and their families amid Welsh rugby’s contracts freeze.
The regions are braced for financial cuts, but no playing budgets have been finalised for next season, so no contracts can be offered in writing. I have a two-year-old son in the house, my wife is pregnant with another baby expected towards the end of this year, and I don’t know if I have got income coming in June, July and next year yet. Nothing has been said. “When you take the field you try to park it as best you can but, subconsciously, you are one big injury from being thrown out the door, to put it frankly.
It is about players having a fair say in the board meetings and just having a voice. We feel as players we don’t get a say – we are always last to know information. “I feel like it has got to the point where you are asking me about Welsh players striking for Wales versus England. That says it all.
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