Paul Rees asks whether the country which has won 12 Grand Slams can still afford to run four regional sides

A chastening season for Welsh rugby was summed up on Friday evening when Taulupe Faletau, 30 minutes into in his comeback after breaking his arm against Georgia in last year’s World Cup, left the field in Ulster with what looked to be a similar injury.
Wales’s head coach Warren Gatland, below, had hoped to utilise Faletau’s experience in the summer internationals against South Africa at Twickenham and on tour in Australia after a Six Nations whitewash, but a few days after long-servi...