'No one knows what's going on!' Alun Wyn Jones steps in to make WRU plea

Wales legend Alun Wyn Jones has called on the WRU to communicate their plan to get Welsh rugby out of the doldrums and back on its feet again.

Wales have numerous issues both on and off the pitch and supporters are being left in the dark with regards to how the situation will be resolved. The Union is due to publish its full five-year strategy this month but that has yet to materialise amid unwanted headlines surrounding the women's team and unwanted results with the men's side.

And former captain and record-cap-holder Jones has told the Union to be "proactive rather than reactive" and to give the Welsh rugby public a cogent plan they can get behind instead of lurching from one crisis to the next

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"I was a fan before the game. I played a bit of rugby and I'm a fan of the game again on the outside," he said on Scrum V.

"Having been involved through quite a few turbulent times, wins, losses, strikes, mergers, project resets, all these things we've tried to correct.

"Why are we finding ourselves in these perennial problems that keep going on a cycle? We've had four or five different CEOs if you count an interim at one point. You say about leniency on the pitch, well has the leniency gone too far on the higher-ups? I'm not even talking about the CEO. Who appointed the CEO?

"Because people can shout me down and say 'You're not well versed enough, you don't know enough about it.' But I've been on both sides. We hear things about a report that should be published... a lot of things are reactive, rather than proactive.

"You look at all the success we had. I wasn't involved in 2005 (Grand Slam) but go from 2008 and what we did, did we actually take it for granted? Did we think of the next move rather than the one in front (of us)? Because we talk about succession of players and coaches, where is the talk about succession? Governance, all that sort of stuff that are obviously now impacting the game.

"Because ultimately I am a fan and I think, dare I say it, there's a lot of people out there that just want to know what the plan is.

"Communication. If you can see it, then everybody can get behind it, irrelevant of what happens on the pitch. Rugby needs supporters, it needs players, we are all stakeholders in this and if we're not communicated to, no one really knows what's going on."