Ospreys prepare for bloody fight against merger with Scarlets | Paul Rees

The club has railed against the WRU’s ‘Project Reset’ and the courts could become involved in a fight for the region’s identityWhen Mike James, for a few minutes longer the chairman of the Ospreys, sat down at lunchtime on Tuesday to talk to his Welsh Rugby Union counterpart, Gareth Davies, his mind could have drifted back 20 years, to when the two were allies against the governing body in one of the many bitter battles waged in the country in the professional era.James was then bankrolling Swansea while Davies was the chief executive of Cardiff, two clubs who that season rebelled against the …