More trouble looms in Wales
July 1, 2002

There could be more trouble ahead for the game in Wales after the Division One clubs backed Aberavon's call for an extraordinary Welsh Rugby Union general meeting at which they will bid to be voted a place in the top flight for next season.

If they are successful the country's financially strained elite clubs will be further alarmed that their £8.1m pot of funding will have to be stretched by one more share.

The EGM will be the third in less than four months and will cause an administrative chaos if fixture lists have to be re-drafted.

Aberavon have won Division One for the last two successive seasons, but were denied promotion on the first occasion when no team was allowed up and at the end of last term when they lost to bottom premier club Caerphilly in a two-match play-off.

The Wizards are continuing their fight alone in the courts against the WRU with a civil hearing due to be heard in Cardiff on July 26.

In April, Wales's clubs knocked back a proposal to reduce the top tier to six clubs at an EGM. And in May, clubs voted that there should be automatic promotion and relegation to and from the top flight.

The latest EGM will take place after the WRU annual general meeting at Port Talbot on July 20.

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