Gareth Anscombe has warned that he and other Grand Slam winners are considering moves to England because of the regional chaos in Welsh rugby. The Wales No.10 has yet to agree a new deal with the Cardiff Blues with the instability of the domestic structure back on the agenda now the Six Nations is over. Anscombe, whose existing national dual contract expires at the end of this season, is a target for Gallagher Premiership clubs Bath and Harlequins.

Four of Wales’ Grand Slam winners have agreed new deals with Welsh regions including Josh Adams who has confirmed his move from Worcester to Cardiff Blues. The wing will move back to Wales at the end of the season in order to stay eligible for international selection, while Scarlets trio Jonathan Davies, Ken Owens and Rob Evans have all signed on to stay at their region. But Wales international hooker Scott Baldwin is moving in the other direction to Adams and will leave the Ospreys at the end of the campaign to join Harlequins.

First it was on, then it was off. Then it was just another back-of-the-fag-packet plan tossed into the bin after 15 months of waiting for Welsh rugby’s leaders to show the way ahead. The shambles of Project Reset is picked over by David Williams who just wants to flush the chain and run away. When is a merger not a merger? When it’s a takeover. That seems to be at the heart of the ‘on-off’ relationship between the Scarlets and Ospreys and their proposed gathering of the west Wales clans for the betterment of Welsh rugby. But who proposed such an unhappy and unlikely marriage in the first place? That seems to be the question exercising most people. Was it a WRU suggestion, or did it come from the supposedly cash-strapped Ospreys?

Project Reset has been. . err . . . re-set – at least until the start of the 2020-21 season. But the various ideas for the reform of the regional game in Wales have not been shelved, just shuffled along the desk a little. Robin Davey looks at the options and says money, as usual, will trump those quant little considerations like performance or fair play. Those people disturbed and confused by Brexit ought to turn for comparison to domestic rugby in Wales, where the future is at best uncertain and at worst a nightmare. Project Reset – which was supposed to be the new deal between the Welsh Rugby Union and the regions – has yet to be signed. The players are increasingly anxious about their future, contracts can’t be finalised, and nobody knows where they stand.

Tomos Williams grew up wishing he was Kobe Bryant or Shaq O’Neal but now wants to be the new Mike Phillips. Wales have not had an undisputed, unchallenged, first-name-on the-team-sheet scrum-half since the days of Phillips, the almost original Iron Mike. But Williams – who grew up favouring basketball over rugby and idolised the top American stars – has big plans ahead, starting with Friday night in Paris, and Warren Gatland might just share them.

Owen Lane was been praised for scoring “an international wing’s finish” after his try helped lift the Cardiff Blues to within two points of the top three places in the Guinness Pro 14 Conference A. Lane – who also scored a notable try against Lyon last week – was left out of Warren Gatland’s squad for the Six Nations. But after he touched down for the crucial score against Connacht in the Blues’ narrow 8-7 victory, coach John Mulvihill said: “Owen finished really well in the corner. That’s an international wing’s finish.

Allen Clarke has admitted his Ospreys team were simply not up to the mark as realistic Welsh interest in the knockout stages of European rugby came to an end. The Ospreys head coach watched his side stumble to a 20-18 home defeat to a Worcester team that showed 13 changes to their regular Gallagher Premiership side. It means the region need a mathematical miracle to make the last eight of the European Challenge Cup, while the Dragons had long since ruled out that possibility.

Sir Gareth Edwards has stepped down as a director of Cardiff Blues after 22 years. The Welsh rugby legend joined the board at the start of professional rugby having spent 12 years as a player at the Arms Park.

Allen Clarke insisted his Ospreys team had dominated the Cardiff Blues as they ended their rivals’ hopes of a derby clean sweep. The Ospreys coach saw his team win 20-11 at the Liberty Stadium – a venue where the Blues have now not won for 14 years – to leave the Blues five points adrift of their opponents in the Guinness Pro14 Conference A table. It brought the Blues’ resurgence to an abrupt halt after their victories over the Scarlets and the Dragons with Clarke claiming it was a reflection of the home team’s control.

Samu Manoa has left Cardiff Blues on compassionate grounds to return to California. The 33-year-old USA international was seen as a major signing when he arrived in the summer but played just seven games.

John Mulvihill’s true impact on Cardiff Blues this season will be put to the test at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday when his side looks to beat the Ospreys in Swansea for the first time since 22 December, 2005. Thanks to their back-to-back regional derby triumphs over the Dragons and Scarlets, the European Challenge Cup holders will head west once again at the weekend chasing an impressive hat-trick of derby wins in the space of 16 days.

Cardiff Blues stunned the Scarlets 43-5 in the West v East derby at Parc y Scarlets. Here, Dai Sport’s Harri Morgan analyses how Blues coach John Mulvihill got his tactics spot-on. Martyn Williams use of the rope a dope analogy in commentary on the East versus West derby at Parc Y Scarlets, was just about spot on.