The last fortnight has seen Welsh rugby stagger from crisis to crisis with the threat of an unprecedented strike by the men’s rugby team only being averted a few days before the Six Nations match against England.
Whilst there was agreement over changes to players contracts, it seems to be a temporary sticking plaster until a thorough root and branch reform of the governance of the game in Wales takes place.
Yet, this is not the first time there have been rumblings about the future of Welsh rugby and nine years ago, this column discussed an academic paper examining the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) as a case study of how an organisation had responded to uncertainty triggered by an abrupt industry change, as happened to rugby union when it went professional.
