By PETER JACKSON

WALES will almost certainly abandon a contingency plan to use Twickenham as their home base for the Six Nations because of the cost.
Hiring the 82,000-seater stadium and paying for an army of stewards is estimated at around £750,000-a-match, an amount which will increase the Welsh Rugby Union’s quandary over how to avoid the infinitely heavier price of defending their title behind closed doors in Cardiff.
Transferring their home matches against Scotland, France and Italy to Twickenham would leave the WRU footing a bill of more than £2m, as well as a myriad of logistic...