Scarlets PROFILE

The Scarlets have thrown off the gloves and are ready for a bare-knuckle fight with the WRU over how the game should operate in west Wales.

First, the Ospreys paraded Swansea Council, now the Scarlets have trumpeted new investors from the USA as the Welsh regions scrap it out to prove how undroppable they are.

The Scarlets may be threatened by structural upheaval in Welsh rugby, but that won’t stop them looking forward to a return to the European elite.

He was always a firm fan favourite as a player and an interviewer’s dream, but now Bradley Davies has taken the first step into coaching at the top level.

He was always a firm fan favourite as a player and an interviewer’s dream, but now Bradley Davies has taken the first step into coaching at the top level.

The Scarlets’ season is over, but they went further than any of the other Welsh regions and Dwayne Peel reckons the future is bright.

Not many teams beat Leinster in Dublin, but Josh Macleod insists the resurgent Scarlets are capable of doing so this weekend, as Graham Thomas reports.

It's the awards season in rugby as we near the end of the domestic campaign and in the United Rugby Championship that means three Scarlets players are in with a shout, as Simon Thomas reports.

The Ospreys and Scarlets seem to have nowhere to go in Welsh rugby, so Graham Thomas reckons they should break for the border.

It’s now a whole year since the Welsh Rugby Union launched the headlines for a strategy they have been unable to agree with their regions.

Few gave the Scarlets much of a chance in South Africa - where they had not won in four years of trying - but their win has opened the door to the play-offs.

No many Welsh teams beat Leinster and the Scarlets hadn't managed it for seven years. But a win over the Irish giants has revived the Scarlets' hopes of making the URC play-offs.