The WRU’S executive director of rugby Nigel Walker said the governing body hopes to offer Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets an “uplift” in funding in coming years but admits cutting the number of regions from four to three is still a possibility.
And he set a target annual budget of £5.5m to £6m to make each of the four competitive.
But he questioned whether the global professional game is “sustainable as it is right now” and admitted reducing the number of regions in Wales remains “on the table”.
All four regions have suffered an exodus of players in the past 12 months after budgets...