Welsh rugby disaster: Ospreys and Scarlets accuse WRU of investment U-turn

Ospreys and Scarlets have accused the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) of creating a U-turn after the governing frame introduced it’s going to transfer clear of a type of 4 frivolously funded skilled facets.

WRU bosses say they now intend to put into effect a brand new two-tier investment gadget a call which Ospreys and Scarlets say has “created more destabilising and debilitating uncertainty in our game”.

Ospreys and Scarlets didn’t signal as much as Welsh rugby’s new Professional Rugby Agreement (PRA) via the time limit of 8 May.

The settlement used to be signed via Dragons and Cardiff, who have been final month taken over via the WRU having served formal notification that they meant to go into management.

Last week Ospreys and Scarlets stated they’d requested the WRU for assurances that the takeover “will not disproportionally benefit Cardiff and disadvantage the independent clubs”.

After Ospreys and Scarlets had no longer signed, WRU have served a two-year realize at the present settlement that underpins the Welsh skilled recreation.

That present PRA runs out in 2027 even if it used to be because of be outdated via the brand new five-year deal.

On Sunday, the WRU launched a observation announcing that with the ones golf equipment no longer signing via the time limit set, it had subsequently taken the “difficult but necessary decision to issue the formal two-year notice to terminate the current PRA agreement in order, in particular, to proceed with its debt refinancing.”

The governing frame made the announcement amid reviews it intends to chop a staff from its skilled tier.

The WRU has neither showed nor denied if reducing a staff is a part of its plans.