The three different choices tabled by the WRU embody two proposals suggesting a discount in a single facet by retaining three groups. These selections are actually significantly being thought of by the WRU board.

Cardiff are owned by the WRU after the facet quickly went into administration in April.

With WRU chief govt Abi Tierney having already mentioned she cannot see a scenario the place skilled rugby wouldn’t be performed within the Welsh capital, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets might be nervously watching what occurs.

Reddin says he hopes a consensus may very well be reached if areas wanted to be minimize, with mergers an choice.

Ospreys chief govt Lance Bradley says he cannot think about any doable merger with west Wales rivals Scarlets – that prospect having beforehand come shut in 2019.

“I credit score myself as a reasonably imaginative particular person however even I am unable to think about that,” Bradley informed BBC Radio Wales Sport.

“I am unable to see the way it might work. It was proposed a couple of years in the past however there can be so many boundaries to it now, that I discover it very onerous to think about.”

Bradley says he hopes to have some readability by the top of October.

“We now have been working carefully with the WRU however on the finish of the day it is going to be them who has to make the choice,” mentioned Bradley.

“We now have had numerous conversations and so they have been constructive.

“We felt that in a gathering we had with Dave Reddin that he genuinely listened to what we mentioned and we hope that might be taken on board.”