The Ospreys grab Hore.

The Ospreys look to have continued leading the way in off-field activities with the announcement of Andrew hore as Elite Performance Director. The Ospreys have time and time again shown the way forward with their marketing, brand building and off-field appointments.

Hopefully this will give the other regions a kick up the backside as competing at the top level, not only in Europe, but in Wales is becoming increasingly difficult and challenging. The Blues, Dragons and Scarlets have failed to do anything of note to really make people sit up and take note, whereas the Ospreys have managed a number of big signings, money spinning games with Australia and possibly the Baa-baas and now on of rugby's most respected coaches will be joining their team.

What will it take for the other regions and the WRU to stand up and be counted. Everything seems a little too comfortable at times with no real drive, professionalism or passion coming from either, just alot of hot air! Ok, so the Scarlets have had their share of problems off the field, but we shouldn't be sitting back until it all blows over, hopefully plans have been put in place and now that things are moving forward, we'll see some exciting things happening, or am I being naive?

Since rugby moved into the professional era, its no secret that we in Wales have struggled to cope, now that the Ospreys have sorted their off-field madness out, hopefully they'll pull everyone along with them and who knows, we may even see one of the other regions come up with a few ideas to move into the new era of Rugby (Yes, the era which 'began' 10 years ago and we're still coming to terms with it!).