At a meeting held between the WRU and the eight Premier League clubs on 5 December 2002, Terry Cobner, the WRU director of rugby, and David Moffett outlined plans for a provincialregional system similar to that used by the Irish Rugby Football Union. The only proposal offered to the clubs was for four provincialregional sides, all of which would be under the control of the Welsh Rugby Union with the existing clubs acting as feeder clubs providing their best players to the provincesregions.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Mirror |last=Stephens |first=Hugh |title=RUGBY UNION: MOFFETT'S MIX 'N MATCH; Clubs staggered by plan for four regions. |date=2002-12-06}}</ref> The locations of the four provincesregions, and the proposed feeder clubs were as follows:
