Welsh Regions

[CygnusX1]

Could the Ospreys and Scarlets break away from the WRU and join the English leagues? They should join lower down and earn their place though.
Not sure what the English leagues would gain, maybe a wider audience?

I think the English Premiership made a mistake when those clubs went bust and they didn’t keep the Premiership the same number of teams by promoting from below. Also not allowing teams promotion based on ground capacity is too controlling. How are those clubs ever supposed to progress without entry into the Premiership? Also no relegation in any league is ridiculous when there are lower leagues.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Welsh rugby has always been a house built on sand.

Despite what BBC Wales and HTV (old money) would have you believe over the years, it's not the Welsh national sport, it lags way behind football as a participation and spectator sport and always has done. There's no money behind it, or in it, and there never has been. Go and watch your local grassroots club, it's one man and his dog. It's an amateur sport that should never have gone professional, at least not in Wales anyway.

All it is, is the international game has always been an excuse for people to get rat-arsed a dozen times a year, that's all there is to it, nothing more than that. It's just the Welsh equivalent of Hooray Henrys in England going to Wimbledon, or the Boat Race. Other than a very tiny passionate minority, no one gives a shit the rest of the time.

 

[monmouth]

Could the Ospreys and Scarlets break away from the WRU and join the English leagues? They should join lower down and earn their place though.
Not sure what the English leagues would gain, maybe a wider audience?

I think the English Premiership made a mistake when those clubs went bust and they didn’t keep the Premiership the same number of teams by promoting from below. Also not allowing teams promotion based on ground capacity is too controlling. How are those clubs ever supposed to progress without entry into the Premiership? Also no relegation in any league is ridiculous when there are lower leagues.

Not really. It needs be sanctioned by world rugby (and hence in all intents and purposes WRU). The WRU have properly shafted both regions.

 

[Darran]

 

[Jack2jack]

Better late than never