DECIDING AREAS.

Gwyn Morgan wrote: Cardiff is only 40 minutes from England!  You can't have a 'region' called East Wales squeezed in between Cardiff and the border. Unless East Wales includes Bristol Bath and Gloucester, so the region can start supplying players to Wales for once.

GPR - Rochester wrote: ladram wrote: As good as this Geography lesson is it doesn't make a blind bit of difference to the outcome  Don't know about you Nigel but I opted out a long time ago. I feel sorry for fellow supporters who keep tying themselves & others in knots pondering the various options open to the WRU. I've taken up watching paint dry as an alternative form of entertainment......

ladram wrote: GPR - Rochester wrote: ladram wrote: As good as this Geography lesson is it doesn't make a blind bit of difference to the outcome  Don't know about you Nigel but I opted out a long time ago. I feel sorry for fellow supporters who keep tying themselves & others in knots pondering the various options open to the WRU. I've taken up watching paint dry as an alternative form of entertainment...... And don't forget you have to mention in every post that the Dragons are rubbish because that's sure to alter the outcome

fair playbthat did make me lol

Mrfwon wrote: supertaf wrote: knutsfordlion wrote: I was watching an old You Tube clip from 1971 where East Wales played the touring Wallabies. Interesting that the team included 7 Cardiff players. They now seem to be Central? Just illustrates what a crock of poo this current situation is. Absolutely and in a perfect world it would be south, mid and north. Trouble is all the top level rugby is in the south so it becomes muddy. For me, east is Cardiff and gwent, Mid is loughor bridge east to bridgend/cowbridge and west is loughor bridge west. Where mid and north wales fall into that remains to be seen If you go by counties, it then paints an even more complicated picture. Carmarthenshire is by far the furthest West than any other Southern Region (apart from Pembrokeshire), and is actually the biggest region out of all. West Glamorgan Covers Swansea. Mid or Central Glamorgan covers Bridgend. Cardiff is in East Glamorgan. And then Newport is in Gwent. West, Mid/Central and Gwent are all similar size (on the map) One thing is for sure, we may be close to Swansea, but we are by far not in any way in West Glamorgan and Swansea are not in Carmarthenshire. So for me, West Wales is us (Carmarthenshire), Swansea and Cardiff are Central (in Glamorgan), and Newport is East (Gwent).

The initial 5 regions were based on the Welsh counties, prior to 1996 reorganisation.
Dragons covered the county of Gwent
Cardiff covered the county of South Glamorgan
Warriors covered the count of Mid Glamorgan
Ospreys covered the county of West Glamorgan
Scarlets covered the county of Dyfed

Having a Cardiff Capitol region plus an East Wales region makes no sense. Particularly as Newport and Monmouthshire are officially part of the current Cardiff Capitol Region City Deal.

The only explanation is the the WRU fear a legal challenge from Dragons as they have a signed and agreed PRA 25 contract.