So, some 20 days on from the dropping of the bombshell, just where do we stand now? What exactly is the future for regional rugby in Wales?
Well, the first thing to say is nothing has been decided yet. As one of my contacts succinctly put it today: “Meetings continue”. Indeed there’s another significant one planned for this week.
But what we do have now is a fresh backdrop in the wake of Nigel Walker’s appearance on ScrumV. It was the WRU performance director who straight away brought up the elephant in the studio by referencing the Oakwell Report into the finances of the game in Wales. It’s 85 pages long and contains a “whole raft of options” to use Walker’s words. But, inevitably, it was the option of axing one of the four regions that grabbed the headlines and set the agenda.
