The Welsh club game is also facing a major overhaul with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) in a consultation period for controversial plans that threaten to cut the number of professional men’s teams from the current four of Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets to two.<\/p>\n
The Welsh Rugby Players Association (WRPA) has said the proposals for the elite game would “drive talent to leave Wales”.<\/p>\n
North, who had spells at Scarlets and Ospreys, said: “In a perfect world we’d have four regions, but is it sustainable? Probably not at the moment.<\/p>\n
“Whether we go to two or three, we probably need a change to rejig the system, to start the ball rolling again.<\/p>\n
“When you’re winning it covers the cracks. There were issues that I was hearing when I first got capped, and those same issues were circling in different formats by the end of my career.<\/p>\n
“I get asked all the time about having a team in north Wales and, obviously, as a passionate north Walian, I would always say ‘100%’.<\/p>\n
“But I think the bigger picture is we have to do what’s right for Welsh rugby, and to get the national team back at that level where we’re performing and competing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Welsh club game is also facing a major overhaul with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-413287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180370947588730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}