Cardiff head coach Dai Young has concerns over player welfare as the Welsh regions prepare to have their squads severely reduced.
Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets are working towards squad budgets of £5.2m for the 2023-24 season and £4.5m the following campaign.
Young said: “There is potentially a wellbeing issue and it does cause us concerns but the reality is that we can’t get more out of the pot.
“When we sat down to look at this, our preferred squad number would be between 40 and 44 but that wasn’t based on the budget as we didn’t know what the budget would be. Now we’re trying to ...