We’ve been here before — about a thousand times before actually, wondering where it’s all going wrong for Welsh rugby after the latest set of poor results.
The cue for concern this time came last weekend when all four regions lost in Europe.
On social media, many were lamenting the round of defeats for Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets. Former Wales coaching candidate Mark Evans asked whether Welsh rugby’s development system needed an upgrade. Ex-Wales hooker Steve ‘Jabba’ Jones took aim at the negativity over regional rugby and contended the game here had four professional teams “full of young Welsh talent”, while Lee Jarvis declared he’d rather watch a team that could win regardless of where players came from and reckoned the 60-cap rule on exiled players benefited only one party, namely Team Wales.
