Dragons chief confirms Aviva Premiership is an option for regions (From Free Press Series)

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  Charles Street wrote:
  An Anglo-Welsh league is clearly the preferred option of the vast majority of supporters I know, as is a long overdue return to Black and Amber and Newport back where it should be as the pro side at Rodney Parade. The irony of being regionallly 'inclusive' is that we include less people and have lost more support than we gained. Chris Kirwan recently described the Dragons idea as a 'mishmash' and he's right. If the WRU come out on top in this battle it won't matter anyway, as there will soon be no professional rugby left here.

  Would not disagree with your sentiments at all. The regional experiment has been a mitigating disaster and no more has this been true than at Newport in terms of name, etc., with the exception of finances which compared to the rest are relatively good because of economic prudence. It was in my view always doomed to collapse, which is the reason I refused to wander over to RP since 2005. With Cardiff essentially putting two fingers up to regionalism, with a return to their traditional colours and openly called Cardiff, there is on principle alone no option other than Newport to follow suit. The current CEO once spoke of finding the right 'brand' at RP. I prefer to use the word 'identity', based on history and culture and not 'brand' with a nod to commercialisation alone. Although I do favour the clubs having more control over their own affiars, and hence a degree of free market practice over the 'statism' of the WRU (and the Irish) this does not mean that the clubs should not act responsibly to maintain what has almost been relegated to a meaningless concept in sport and that is 'tradition'. This can be achieved.
  I notice that the Ospreys have played twice now in a 'white' kit. I could be reading more into this than is warranted, but ....?"
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