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ScarletBear 
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This will be terribly unpopular on here, but I do believe we will end up with an east and west pro region that is totally unattached to a particular club. Our 4 regions are totally imbalanced.
Dragons, utterly useless region but Gwent has most clubs Scarlets' biggest town is 50k at best Ospreys picks up Swansea, Neath, Aberavon, Bridgend Cardiff should sustain itself but doesn't use the valleys well enough This Elite 8 has to be the feeder teams for the pros and should come from historically important rugby town such as Llanelli, Swansea, Neath, Aberavon for west and Bridgend, Cardiff, Ponty (or Poola) and Newport for east, playing in grounds of 5,000 capacity. There should be a central pot so that no rich men cant fund them.
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I dot mean this in a derogatory way, but probably more English stock being close to the border and the valleys being flooded by English miners back in the day.
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Hard luck Ammanford and well done ! What is it about us west wales boys, , outsized by our cousins from the east.  Even when I played youth district rugby, we were up regularly against East Mon....huge packs. Had to think of ways to combat it. Newbridge always combative opponents for Llanelli, in times gone by, very physical and never easy . Been there twice and seen us lose TWICE ! Hope Ammanford build on this now going forward, will give them confidence
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Posted: 01 April 2023 at 6:53pm |
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Ammanford played well but they were a much bigger outfit.
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Llanelli 7 Merthyr 50 Full Time
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Ammanford 35 Newbridge 43 Full Time
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Yes good luck amman....will be a tough game. Always big packs those clubs from the east.
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Good luck to Ammanford in the cup tomorrow
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I'm not so sure, perhaps Llandovery and Carmarthen won't want to go into this new 8 team premiership as I think (maybe wrongly) the team selected from our region will be controlled quite a bit by the Scarlets with respect to which players play each week, depending on the regions needs. These clubs may want to stay as independent clubs with pretty good set ups one level lower.
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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/famous-llanelli-rfc-club-announces-26580347?int_source=nba
Doesn't look good this..looks arrogant too to think the RFC can simply not play league games next season yet expect to get into a new 8 team Welsh prem automatically ?
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I have read this on some social media posts the last couple of days, the RFC are to dispand at the end of the season. Not sure how much truth is in this ? Anyone else heard this ?
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To all intents and purposes it's not a new league, it's a reduced prem with you'd imagine the intention being it's full of developing players and senior players who can plug a gap in the URC if needed.
Creating a 'new' league means they don't really need everyone (the prem clubs) to agree to it. It's a backwards but probably necessary way to do it because no-one will willingly step down. It'll probably work better if they also agree there's no regional A games and the top players in the 18's play in the new league, with smaller squads everywhere don't see players lacking game time do the A games won't likely be needed.
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Firstly would the quins or Llandovery want to be in this league. Less games and teams weakened by having to play academy players. Secondly where are the players coming from to fill these teams. With funding being cut and squads being reduced surely the regions are going to be more reliant on academy and development players more than ever especially taking in to account injuries and international call ups. If this was funded properly and used properly it would be a great idea . But I really can't see it working
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I'm sick of it
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Yes, let's hope indeed!
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