Davies calls for WRU board to step down

Davies calls for WRU board to step down The Welsh Rugby Union has signaled its intention to reduce the number of professional teams in Wales from four to three by 2028, a move that would see WRU‑owned Cardiff and the privately backed Dragons retain their licences while the future of the Scarlets and Ospreys hangs in the balance. The WRU says the process to settle the final model will begin in December and be completed before the close of the 2026‑27 season. Scarlets managing director Jon Daniels has denied any merger talks with the Ospreys and urged the WRU to provide greater transparency. The Ospreys, speaking publicly for the first time, insisted that four professional sides represent the correct path forward and described the union’s plan to cut a team as misguided. While the search for a replacement for Collier‑Keywood continues, the WRU has indicated that the successor appointed to the independent seat must endorse the three‑team proposal. Former Cardiff committee member and Welsh businesswoman Hayley Parsons has called for the WRU board to resign, and ex‑Principality Building Society chief operating officer Rob Regan said he is prepared to serve on an interim committee and help appoint a permanent board. In a series of remarks, Davies laid out his criticism of the current state of the sport in Wales: "The system and the crippled successful Wales is suffering. It is clip present for radical to dependable their opinions, ex-players, regions, and the clubs and the fans astir importantly and accidental alteration is needed." "It is up to america to unit the changes different this is not going distant and successful 5 oregon 10 years we volition beryllium successful a acold worse state." "Let's get unneurotic and effort and marque a change." He added, "Welsh rugby has stopped belonging to the people," and wrote, "That is the first happening I would fix." Further, he stated: "The radical of Wales request to determine whether they privation rugby national arsenic portion of their identity, civilization and soul." "And we each cognize the reply to that. The intent of the Welsh Rugby Union is to present that to the people." "To supply a crippled that exists successful each colony and municipality - that forms a instauration chromatic to physique a pathway to bring connected our champion endowment - into the regions and to the nationalist side." "To harness the unsocial passionateness and endowment that exists successful Wales and physique a sustainable future."