Nevertheless, the ex-Wales wing is amongst those that agree a change is required.

“It’s totally disappointing the best way that issues have gone,” the 50-year-old added. “We have stated this for years that it was a home of playing cards constructed on sand, the foundations.

“We have achieved exceptionally nicely for what we had with the constructions in place and it hasn’t labored out financially.

“It wants to alter dramatically with a view to attempt to encourage gamers to play the sport, to take up the sport quite than go to soccer or different sports activities, and to get the help again and the place Wales must be on the rugby degree.”

Whereas the WRU has stated that its most popular answer is 2 skilled sides, its proposals embody 4 choices in whole:

A session interval will start on 1 September earlier than a advice is distributed in mid-October to the WRU board to make a remaining determination that month.

Former Wales centre Tom Shanklin wrote on X that he was in favour of “4 areas, bigger pathways and an even bigger pool to determine younger expertise.”

Shanklin does settle for two skilled groups will “hopefully enhance outcomes domestically”.

However the 45-year-old added: “The primary problem is the following era of gamers coming via. They want funding, coached and developed to a really excessive customary in order that we do not discover ourselves in the identical scenario in 10 years’ time.”

Former Wales wing Alex Cuthbert, 35, talking on the Scrum V podcast, advocated for 3 groups.

“We have been sat right here and we have requested for change have not we and it is come,” he stated.

“However whether or not you are shifting the needle from one excessive to the opposite and I feel whether or not they’re going too far when it comes to straight to 2?”

The ex-Cardiff, Exeter and Ospreys again added: “Everybody’s going to have their opinion, whether or not it is followers, stakeholders, gamers, and so they’ve go to hear as a result of everybody may simply flip up and say ‘it is a load of garbage’ and the place do they go then?

“They [the WRU] clearly again themselves or they’ve to return to the drafting board, so I feel the essential factor they’ve on this session interval is that they need to be attentive to the cultural values of Wales and Welsh rugby.”