Ospreys sign on the swansea.com stadium

[monmouth]

Not anymore.

WRU currently own Cardiff. Dragons are private, Both signed new agreement; both are safe under it. Scarlets and Ospreys on old agreement so are financially screwed. WRU has basically given them 3 months to come up with a solution that leaves only one team in the West. St Helens will not get funding while there is a better stadium in Llanelli unless the Ospreys, or Swansea, have a guaranteed future, whatever Lance whatsisname spouts. As it stands, they don’t.

I suppose anything could still happen. This is the WRU. The only guarantee is that there will be a team playing out of Cardiff. Whether the Dragons agree to fold into that is anyone’s guess. Then one team in the West in all probability, playing out of Llanelli where the stadium exists. The WRU have fucked up so badly there is no money for anything else.

Oh, and yes, the crowds in Llanelli, even though dire, have still been a fair bit better than those in Swansea.

 

[CygnusX1]

Dragons and Cardiff kept, the others move to the English system (my prediction)

I think the English leagues would allow the Ospreys and Scarlets to grow much stronger in 5 years than they would as things stand

 

[Glyn1]

Is rugby dying in Wales? Not just at professional level but at local and schools level?

 

[monmouth]

I think the English leagues would allow the Ospreys and Scarlets to grow much stronger in 5 years than they would as things stand

The Ospreys and Scarlets ain’t going to the English league. Only the two that are left standing have any chance of that, as that is the holy grail. It’ll be one team in the east and one team in the west, probably. The WRU are so shite though, they’ll probably end up stuck in the dead end URC.

 

[monmouth]

Is rugby dying in Wales? Not just at professional level but at local and schools level?

Short answer yes. Long answer, it’s on life support depending on a bunch of incompetent self interested clowns.

 

[ajacks]

Is rugby dying in Wales? Not just at professional level but at local and schools level?

The joke at school (about a decade ago - ahem) was always if you werent good enough to get in the football team you could always try Rugby - speaks to where it has been for a while... the second choice sport in most parts of Wales.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

The joke at school (about a decade ago - ahem) was always if you werent good enough to get in the football team you could always try Rugby - speaks to where it has been for a while... the second choice sport in most parts of Wales.

Pretty much always has been where it wasn’t compulsory.

 

[Dillwyn the Dog]

The joke at school (about a decade ago - ahem) was always if you werent good enough to get in the football team you could always try Rugby - speaks to where it has been for a while... the second choice sport in most parts of Wales.

Times have changed then. In Dunvant junior school we all played rugby in J1 and had a choice from J2 to J4 if we wanted to play football.