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Fans and Welsh rugby chiefs at odds over plan to cut one of four professional sides

  • WRU chair says ‘system was essentially broken’ in Wales

  • Fan group insists there is ‘no appetite for a merger’

Richard Collier-Keywood, the embattled chair of the Welsh Rugby Union, has insisted he has the support of fans and players in Wales as the WRU attempts to drive through radical plans to cut one of the four professional sides.

Giving evidence before the House of Commons Welsh affairs select committee, Collier-Keywood – who is facing the threat of a vote of no confidence in his leadership – said he believed “the rugby system was essentially broken” in Wales before he took over and there was widespread acknowledgment that it needed to change.

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