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Hello, welcome to the Scrunfire Podcast, a short, punchy informative pod just to give you the latest

on, well, the latest, latest crisis in Gulf and Welsh strike B.

It's the news that broke on Wednesday night,

the proposals that the Welsh region's could end up being cut from four to three. Oh good podcast by the way. I'm joined by Gareth Griffith's the BBC Rugby reporter a man who I spoke with regularly

let me think we had regular conversations I'm thinking three years ago we did yes

what was that about? That was well similar

similar beat really was that was actually a merger between the offspring

and Scott scarlets in 2019 in the middle of the six nations which Wales

went on to win the grand, and that was a lot further

done the line. That was where players and staff were told it was happening and then for the

next ten days they rode back and eventually it didn't and the status quo kept the same.

Okay so this story broke and many people on social media suggested that this was the

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