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Nick Cain: Two-team model in Welsh rugby has little chance of success

Luke Price Ospreys

The precipice on which Welsh rugby is perched rests on two disastrous decisions made on either side of the Millennium which involved shrinkage.
The first was the WRU’s refusal in 1999 to accept an offer for five of the leading Welsh clubs to join 27 English counterparts in a two division Anglo-Welsh competition.

The number of places offered was considered “demeaning to Welsh rugby” by the WRU’s then chairman Glanmor Griffiths, and was turned down.
Yet, four years later, when the costs involved in professional rugby started to bite after joining the Celtic League with Ireland and Scotland, ...

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