The new rugby season is a mere month away yet matters in Wales are, unfortunately, mired in a familiar lack of clarity.
There is still no news of an agreement over budgets for the coming season — as in the one which starts in four weeks — as the four professional men's sides remain unsure over what their payments will be from the Welsh Rugby Union in return for providing access to Test stars, while the Welsh game continues to lose the intellectual property of quality businesspeople it can ill afford to see walk away. It's a sorry situation.
With all that in mind, as well as the fact none of the four sides finished inside the top half of the United Rugby Championship table last year, it would be easy to be feeling pretty forlorn ahead of the new campaign.
