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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 981341" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>Maybe we should look at going at reducing down to 3 for the immediate future (all south wales based), but with an increased development role for North Wales, with a real push to grow the game up there and hopefully return to 4 regions in the longer term?</p><p></p><p>I think that could allow for short term stability and an immediate improvement in results (concentration of talent + funding), but with the potential of going back to 4 regions when ready.</p><p></p><p>I know 2 south Wales regions would make a lot of sense. There'd be an easy east/west split, and would result in 2 very strong regions. But if would be difficult to add a 3rd back in in future if required, so maybe one step at a time...</p><p></p><p>How would 3 south Wales regions look like? The easy solution atm would be to merge Ospreys and Scarlets, but i'm not convinced that gives the best regional spread in south Wales. Blues and Dragons should merge, as should Scarlets and Swansea, then a new central region should be created out of the rest of the Ospreys + Blues regions (valleys etc.). Big question would be whether that central region would be strong enough, or would it be repeating the failure of the Warriors again?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 981341, member: 13739"] Maybe we should look at going at reducing down to 3 for the immediate future (all south wales based), but with an increased development role for North Wales, with a real push to grow the game up there and hopefully return to 4 regions in the longer term? I think that could allow for short term stability and an immediate improvement in results (concentration of talent + funding), but with the potential of going back to 4 regions when ready. I know 2 south Wales regions would make a lot of sense. There'd be an easy east/west split, and would result in 2 very strong regions. But if would be difficult to add a 3rd back in in future if required, so maybe one step at a time... How would 3 south Wales regions look like? The easy solution atm would be to merge Ospreys and Scarlets, but i'm not convinced that gives the best regional spread in south Wales. Blues and Dragons should merge, as should Scarlets and Swansea, then a new central region should be created out of the rest of the Ospreys + Blues regions (valleys etc.). Big question would be whether that central region would be strong enough, or would it be repeating the failure of the Warriors again? [/QUOTE]
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