Mick Cleary believes that the national side must lift Welsh rugby in the wake of the regions' Heineken Cup capitulation in The Daily Telegraph.
"While much is rightly made of the struggles of the English clubs in going head to head with the cash-rich French and their relative demise as a result, the long-running underachievement of the Welsh teams is even worse.
"No Welsh side have won the Heineken Cup since its inception in 1995. For the third time in seven seasons, the regions have been wiped out in the pool stages. That’s a pitiful return by any standards.
"After bitter infighting, regional rugby was introduced in 2003. The classic town base of Welsh rugby was dismantled or redefined. Cardiff became the Blues, Newport, the Gwent Dragons."
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