Wales skipper Alun Wyn Jones to have talks over future

Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones has meetings in the next month to decide his future after the 2019 World Cup.

The 33-year-old second rower has been with Ospreys since their inception in 2003 but is out of contract later this year. 

He said a review of pay for professional players in Wales is a major factor affecting talks.

"I'm conscious that (Welsh rugby's new pay bands) are affecting everyone and I've got a few meetings within the next month or so," said Jones.

"It's 50 per cent on me and 50 per cent on the powers-that-be. It depends on how long they see my value."

A triple British and Irish Lions tourist, Jones is currently on a central contract co-funded by the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and Ospreys and says he still has ambitions to reach a World Cup final as well as play in the Champions Cup finale with the Ospreys, and to play for the Barbarians.

"I've had some communications with the Baa-baas, but I haven't got close enough to the Champions Cup, I've got to a World Cup semi-final - those are the big ones," added Jones,

"I've been fortunate to have been doing what I do as long as I have, and hopefully I can do it for a while longer."

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