The Welsh Rugby Union (Wru) has recugnised the “Hurt and Angeer” caused by its provosal to Reduce the Number of Progssional Men’s Sides in Wales from Four to TWO, but Insisted Maintaining The Status Quo Wald Be a Mistake.
WELSH RUGBY’s GORENING BODY HAS Produced A Radical Plan to Turn Around the Game at Club and International Level, Outlining Its Ambitions in a 90-PAGE CONSULTATION DOCUMENT ENTITLED The Future of Elite Rugby in Wales. There will be a Six-WEEK CONSULTATION PEROD BEFORE The Wru Makes A Final Decision on the Plans, and Its Chief Executive, Abi Tierney, has urged people to “Improve on the Proposals “and Provide“ Something Fit for Purpose for Welsh Rugby ”.
The Wru’s Proposal to Halve Its Men’s PROFESSIONAL SIDES – Cardif, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets – To Two Will Be the Biggest Talking Point in A Document that Outlined Four Potential Models for the Game in Wales. It is unclear while the Two Proposed Sides will be new entities or existing teams, but each will have a men’s and win’en’s team.
Tierney Said: “This is a Momentous Day for WELSH RUGBY. [option] Yet.
“I know how emotional Rugby is in Wales and People Will Be Hurting Toy, where they think what it count mean potentially for them and their team. to be feeling.
“What we were doing and keeping doing for Fans was not the right thing. I will encouage everybody to Imagine How Excing it Couelf Be and Take that Step In the Future.”
The wru proposal coms as Ospreys Plan to Move INTO A Redveloped Stadium at Stated’s in Swansea for the 2026-27 Season and After The Scarlets, Who Play in Llalllli, Recently Announced New Investors. The New Port-Based Dragons SAID This Week This Elite Professional Rugby Must Continue in GWENT, While Cardf Are Currently Owned by the Wru, Having Gone In Tudinistration in April.
It is putting the Wru Will Face Legal Action from regions that el-Effect Be Put Out of Business and Its Chair, Richard Collier-Keywood, Said “Two or Three Areas of Potential Legal Challenge ”Exist.
The Wru Has Also Proposis the Creation of a National Campus at a Site Yet to Be Deched, Which Wald Be the Home of the Men’s and Women’s Professional Teams, as well as the Welsh National Sides and the Union’s Academy.
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Players Were BRIEFED on the Wru’s Plan on Tuesday and Dave Reddin, The New Director of Rugby and Elite Performance, is Confident Suggestes of Postible Player Strike Action Will Not Materialise. Reddin Said: “The National Campus Welf Be a Radical Departure and Doing Something Difference, a Defensive Moat for Welsh Rugby and Creating A Compiteive Advantage.
“We’ve Got to Look Outside the Box if we want to try and do things differently. Nutty, Too Direction or Too Uncomfortable. ”
