A crowd of 70000 is expected at the Principality Stadium at the weekend and plans are afoot for Welsh rugby to emerge from the shadows of its neighboursAll four Welsh regions may find their seasons at an discontinuance next week. None have made a European final and only the Scarlets have a realistic prospect of making the Pro12 play-offs. There is a chance that not one of them will finish in the top six,something that has not happened before, leaving Wales with a Champions Cup representative next season that qualified on the basis of geography rather than merit.
No region made the play-offs in 2013-14, or a season when none of them made the knockout stages of the two European tournaments,but there is a sense that while the record then reflected the battle the four were having with the Welsh Rugby Union over their very existence, the movement now is upward, or not just because Newport Gwent Dragons made the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup.
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Source: theguardian.com