Welsh rugby cuts: What regions are at risk as the WRU plan begins?

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Ospreys are the most successful Welsh side since the regional rugby was launched in 2003, with four league titles and a triumph of the Anglo-Welsh Cup.

Warren Gatland appointed 13 Ospreys players in his first Wales team in 2008.

But that squad full of ‘galactic’ stars, with people like Shane Williams, Gavin Henson and Ryan Jones, as well as all blacks, Justin Marshall, Marty Holah and Jerry Collins, they should have achieved more.

The region has produced genuine superstars, such as Alun Wyn Jones, Shane Williams, Dan Biggar, Adam Jones and James Hook. This summer provided one of the only two players of British and Irish from Wales: Jac Morgan flying to Australia along with the Gloucester Williams shots.

Ospreys also has a population on his side in the second largest city in Wales and has chosen to leave the stadium often without soul Swansea.com and spend this 2025-26 season in Bridgend while rebuilding San Helen.

But Swansea’s advice has safeguards if the professional rugby in the city is affected by WRU’s decision.

The region, assumed by Y11 Sport & Media in 2020, approached a fusion with the scarlets in 2019, while refusing the conversation of a fusion with Cardiff in 2023.

The Wru would be interested in those discussions begin again.