First Minister, yesterday a collective sigh of relief was felt across the men's professional game of rugby here in Wales, not due to Warren Gatland's return as Welsh head coach, but because a six-year framework for professional rugby in Wales was verbally agreed. On Sunday, the Welsh Rugby Players Association released a statement expressing concern as player well-being was being severely impacted by delays to a long-term agreement, with some Welsh players already signing for clubs outside of Wales to ensure some job security.

The financial state of rugby is in a perilous position. Across Offa's Dyke, we've seen both Wasps and Worcester placed into administration and cease trading. Parking to one side the governance structure of the Welsh Rugby Union, which Sam Warburton said was 'stuck in the Stone Age', rugby in Wales, both the community and professional game, is in a nervous position. Given the Welsh Government negotiated a £20 million loan to Wales's four regions, what is the Welsh Government doing to ensure that repaying these loans won't leave some of Wales's regions going the way of either Wasps or Worcester?