GARETH Davies has been forced to admit defeat in his plan to modernise the governance of Welsh rugby. The WRU chairman had hoped to reduce the nine archaic districts to a more streamlined five regional community boards.
There seemed to be a strong appetite for change with 93 per cent support for the proposals before Christmas. But now the WRU are set to issue a letter to clubs notifying them the plans won’t be put to an emergency general meeting after they were blocked by the WRU’s own board. Some board members and districts feared losing power.
Davies said: “We wanted to ...