The Ospreys and Dragons are now departing South Africa and it caps an utterly miserable few weeks in the country for Welsh rugby.
Before we go any further, it is important to apply the caveat that only the two aforementioned Welsh sides had anything approaching full strength sides in their final games. The other six matches played by Welsh teams against South African opposition out there were largely without their international contingent. Nonetheless, the prevailing opinion is that while games might have been closer, the results were unlikely to have changed.
As such, the starkest of messages have been sent to the Welsh Rugby Union about the state of the professional game under their stewardship. It comes hot on the heels of Wales’ Six Nations campaign under Wayne Pivac ending in disaster against Italy and the numbers make for ugly reading.
