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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 615100" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>You've misunderstood the Welsh situation ratsapprentice. Plenty of people do care about the regions, it's just a very vocal Pontypridd and other villagists who get disproportionate press who distort the narrative and still upset that they wrecked their Celtic Warriors pro team. The traditional clubs in the professional age were **** by the way, just see their results in Europe in their last season it was embarrassing, people have seemed to have forgotten that they were unworkable, poorly attended, struggling financially and largely uncompetitive in their last days. Nowadays it would be far worse with the amount of players leaving as well.</p><p></p><p>The problem is the Welsh rugby public is frankly a bit stupid. Especially the Western Mail reading front. Likelihood is that some villagists will complain whatever happens and what was a mistake in regionalism was bothering to try and appease them in the first place. Scarlets vs Ospreys last weekend was a great occasion and many will be sad to lose it, the derby games are great occasions it's just most of the rest of the Pro12 as a league that so few care about. </p><p></p><p>You've also misunderstood the WRU's intentions as well. The essentially want the Welsh system to be like the Scottish one but based outside the population centres instead and are killing the regions by starving them to get this. If the WRU get their way it will kill the Welsh domestic game as a competitive entity probably for good. The Welsh domestic side would be as competitive as Edinburgh are now or Borders used to be, apart from getting 2,000 crowds in North Wales or Pontypridd. Far fewer will care about the uncompetitive non entities the WRU are planning than the regions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 615100, member: 48703"] You've misunderstood the Welsh situation ratsapprentice. Plenty of people do care about the regions, it's just a very vocal Pontypridd and other villagists who get disproportionate press who distort the narrative and still upset that they wrecked their Celtic Warriors pro team. The traditional clubs in the professional age were **** by the way, just see their results in Europe in their last season it was embarrassing, people have seemed to have forgotten that they were unworkable, poorly attended, struggling financially and largely uncompetitive in their last days. Nowadays it would be far worse with the amount of players leaving as well. The problem is the Welsh rugby public is frankly a bit stupid. Especially the Western Mail reading front. Likelihood is that some villagists will complain whatever happens and what was a mistake in regionalism was bothering to try and appease them in the first place. Scarlets vs Ospreys last weekend was a great occasion and many will be sad to lose it, the derby games are great occasions it's just most of the rest of the Pro12 as a league that so few care about. You've also misunderstood the WRU's intentions as well. The essentially want the Welsh system to be like the Scottish one but based outside the population centres instead and are killing the regions by starving them to get this. If the WRU get their way it will kill the Welsh domestic game as a competitive entity probably for good. The Welsh domestic side would be as competitive as Edinburgh are now or Borders used to be, apart from getting 2,000 crowds in North Wales or Pontypridd. Far fewer will care about the uncompetitive non entities the WRU are planning than the regions. [/QUOTE]
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