Can the Welsh dragon roar in the URC this season?

A strong-looking Ospreys side should lead the charge from the principality this campaign. 

ON MY WHISTLE: Ospreys head coach Toby Booth. Picture: Ross MacDonald/SNS Group via Getty Images

Wales' four professional sides struggled to make any sort of impact in the inaugural United Rugby Championship and haven’t been serious players on the club scene for the past four seasons.

But it wasn’t always this way, there was a time when at least three of the four Welsh sides were competing at the cutting edge of the old PRO12 with the Ospreys being crowned champions on four occasions, and the Scarlets winning it twice.