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Elinor Snowsill, a former fly-half, calls it “very frustrating” when England place second place behind Wales’ best young talent.

Since turning her Wales career into a career in 2012, Snowsill has been in charge of one of the Welsh Rugby Union’s (WRU) player development centers.

She also serves as the head coach of Cardiff Met and Wales Under-18s, where she claimed that there is a “golden generation” emerging.

However, “headhunting” from across the border worries Snowsill.

She stated on the Scrum V podcast that some of England’s most gifted players in the age range have been contacted and asked to travel there instead.

Given the success of Wales-born Meg Jones and Lucy Packer, Snowsill said she “feels wrong” about playing for the world champions.

“You’ve seen the Red Roses’ high investment by the RFU,” said Bob. In contrast, she said, “Wales and Scotland have invested heavily in their respective pathways over the past few years.”

“They have a lot of players playing because England is so dominant right now.”

A number of Welsh players claim that this is what I want to do, though.

They watched Wales fail to win the World Cup in the first two stages before watching England win the trophy and the atmosphere.

However, Snowsill claims that having a Welsh birthplace has advantages.

Because we are a small country, she said, “We can really combine our resources.”

Snowsill praised the WRU’s additional funding for Gwalia Lightning and Brython Thunder as a Celtic Challenge champion.

With the intention of bringing Welsh talent back to Wales, it will allow for dual contracts, additional coaching staff, and resources.

If players aren’t returning to the team roster or playing a lot of rugby, “we’re going to be bringing them back,” she said.

However, Snowsill thinks the package must be competitive for players to stay in England, even if they aren’t playing on matchday teams.

With this new funding, the challenge is to make it as appealing as possible for us to stay in Wales and participate in the journey, she said. “We’ve worked hard to develop our talent.

It won’t happen overnight, he said.

However, I firmly believe that Wales will succeed in the upcoming World Cup and subsequent ones.

Philippa Tuttiett believes Wales would benefit from having just one professional team, whether that be the Celtic Challenge or the possibility of joining the PWR.

Every player should be supported in the most effective setting to pursue their goals, Tutiertt said on the Scrum V podcast.

How are you going to make two professional teams out of Wales’ bottom-seeded Six Nations team, which had 30-35 players in the World Cup? You must add even more players.

Tuttiett also emphasized the value of making players strive to be professionals rather than just receiving contracts.

When I was younger, I worked so hard to even join my club team. I’m not sure if it would have kept my hunger alive if someone turned to me when I was 18 and said, “There’s a professional contract,” she said.

Let’s not get too big too soon, I personally would prefer it to be a one-professional team and build.

At Euro 2028, co-hosts England may travel two games away from Wembley.

The Three Lions will play one of their three group games at one of Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Villa Park, Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium, and St James’ Park in Newcastle, according to BBC Sport. They will need to qualify for the tournament to advance to the final five English stadiums, where they will host games.

England would also have to play a game away from home if they qualified for the knockout round at Wembley because there are no last-16 games being played there.

Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ireland are all hosts by England.

The opening game will be held at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, as first reported by the Times.

At the official launch of Euro 2028 in London on November 12th, the full schedule will be revealed.

The FA and Uefa, the body responsible for football in Europe, have both declined to comment.

At Wembley during the Euro 1996 semi-finals, England reached every match of their own competition.

Apart from their quarter-final victory over Ukraine in Rome, they also hosted games at Euro 2020, which was played across several nations, and played all of their games at Wembley.

England, Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ireland must meet qualifying requirements, according to Uefa, but any of those host nations who do not will be able to qualify will lose two spots in the finals.

Games will also be played at Glasgow’s Aviva Stadium and Hampden Park in Dublin.

The decision to remove the national team from their traditional home was largely driven by the number of recently developed and expanded stadiums in England, according to a senior source.

England’s men’s and women’s teams have played a number of games across the nation recently.

Due to Coldplay’s Wembley concerts, the men’s team played Andorra at Villa Park in Birmingham in September. The match was played at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground because the English friendly against Senegal in June and concert season clashed.

England have hosted home games at St James’ Park, Old Trafford, Manchester United’s Old Trafford, and Molineux, a Wolverhampton Wanderers’ ground since 2018.

Games have also been played at Leeds United’ Elland Road, Southampton’s St Mary’s, Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, and Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough.