MPs have already introduced plans to query the WRU in regards to the end result of its session and the affect on the game’s wider financial and cultural significance in Wales.

“With rugby woven into the material of life in communities up and down the nation, the proposed structural modifications introduced by the WRU as we speak will resonate far past the pitch,” mentioned Ruth Jones MP, chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee.

However the large questions followers desires answering are which crew might be axed and when?

The WRU had sought to chop two areas however the backlash made it clear that was too far and an excessive amount of to bear. However nonetheless, one will go.

Regardless of makes an attempt to minimize the situation, it seems a straight battle between Ospreys and Scarlets – the 2 most profitable golf equipment within the regional rugby period which started in 2003 – for the only west Wales spot.

There stays a hope throughout the governing physique that the 2 golf equipment will merge, as they so almost did so in 2019. That would definitely make a formidable mixture however would take a massive quantity of diplomacy – or desperation.

Each crew’s funding take care of the WRU expires in June 2027 however the chances are this might be determined earlier than then.

The WRU remained coy over how lengthy they’re contracted to supply 4 groups to the URC who had been agency of their need for an excellent variety of Welsh groups to safeguard the construction and format of the competitors.

The WU may very well be liable to pay compensation for withdrawing a crew prematurely however negotiations are already happening over a 15-team league or who might take the ultimate place.

South Africa are mentioned to be towards options of inviting a membership from the USA or Canada, as a result of journey, so might a European possibility, say from Georgia, Spain or Portugal, and even an English Championship membership be an possibility?