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<blockquote data-quote="bushytop" data-source="post: 935645" data-attributes="member: 56738"><p>Just read the whole article and fair play to the Osprey's, that is how to act classy in the face of receiving the ****-end of the stick.</p><p></p><p>My take has been since the first rumours, that the WRU still want to have 4 regions and this statement seems to back this up... they are just intent on one of those regions being in the north (where just under a third of the Welsh population live)... which clearly leaves 3 along the M4. </p><p></p><p>Although the Dragons have criminally underachieved these past couple of decades, I heard a stat that there are more rugby clubs in the Dragons catchment than in any other... so if that is correct, you can not close down that avenue for players to come through.</p><p></p><p>Blues... also underachievers, even with a couple of Challenge Cups but you can not have no rugby in the biggest city in Wales. Not to mention the masses of towns and villages dotted around the capital.</p><p></p><p>Which leaves the Ospreys and the Scarlets... the two most successful regions since the game went regional. If this decision had to have been made 10 years ago, the talk would clearly be fold the Scarlets into the O's but as fortunes have changed so has the primary option. Me personally, I'd 'give' the eastern border of Ospreylia (Bridgend & Pencoed... maybe even Port Talbot<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />) to the Blues Region and then have the Scarlett Ospreys (uuurrggghh... please come up with something better) operating out of... well ideally Swansea but what with Parc y Scarlets being owned while the Liberty a rental... I'm not really sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bushytop, post: 935645, member: 56738"] Just read the whole article and fair play to the Osprey’s, that is how to act classy in the face of receiving the ****-end of the stick. My take has been since the first rumours, that the WRU still want to have 4 regions and this statement seems to back this up... they are just intent on one of those regions being in the north (where just under a third of the Welsh population live)... which clearly leaves 3 along the M4. Although the Dragons have criminally underachieved these past couple of decades, I heard a stat that there are more rugby clubs in the Dragons catchment than in any other... so if that is correct, you can not close down that avenue for players to come through. Blues... also underachievers, even with a couple of Challenge Cups but you can not have no rugby in the biggest city in Wales. Not to mention the masses of towns and villages dotted around the capital. Which leaves the Ospreys and the Scarlets... the two most successful regions since the game went regional. If this decision had to have been made 10 years ago, the talk would clearly be fold the Scarlets into the O’s but as fortunes have changed so has the primary option. Me personally, I’d ‘give’ the eastern border of Ospreylia (Bridgend & Pencoed... maybe even Port Talbot:eek:) to the Blues Region and then have the Scarlett Ospreys (uuurrggghh... please come up with something better) operating out of... well ideally Swansea but what with Parc y Scarlets being owned while the Liberty a rental... I’m not really sure. [/QUOTE]
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