ENJOY this rugby season if you can because things will never be the same again.

We are about to witness the total destruction of the game in Wales, and over the next few months, we can all pass the last rites as we see its disintegration.

Amazingly, it is the men at the very top of the game in Wales who are behind the move to wreck 130 years of club rugby.

For great teams like Newport, Cardiff, Llanelli and Swansea and others like Pontypridd will no longer be at the highest level of the game.

And who are the guilty men? Who are the people behind this disgraceful plan?

None other than Glanmor Griffiths, chairman and treasurer of the Welsh Rugby Union, Steve Hansen, Wales coach, and Terry Cobner, WRU director of rugby.

Griffiths, the man who, just a few months ago, said the future would be club based has now turned turtle.

Hansen firmly believes the future for Welsh rugby should be provincial, not surprising considering he is a New Zealander.

And Cobner has long believed the top end of the game in Wales should be based around district teams.

Yet Cobner has, for years, been part of an elite system based around one unit or one school at the top.

He went to West Mon Grammar School, one of the finest in the land, and he later taught at Oundle, one of England's best public schools.

Now, under the plan, he, among others, is championing the cause that would leave even his old club Pontypool without any ambition at all, their future confined to playing in an all-Welsh semi-professional or even amateur division.

Cobner had been quiet, as had the entire WRU directorate, when Graham Henry was Wales coach, but lately he has emerged prominently, scenting blood.

But who will be the victims of this assault by the men supposed to be running Welsh rugby?

None other than all those wonderful clubs who have served Welsh rugby so nobly in the past, clubs who have beaten the All Blacks, the Springboks and the Wallabies, clubs famous all over the world.

And please don't insult me, those clubs, the former great players and thousands of fans by saying they will, in fact, still exist.

The answer trotted out will be that Newport, Cardiff, Llanelli, etc, will still exist in an all-Welsh League.

But they will be represented by a few fringe players and by under-21s because all the top men will be playing for Gwent, Glamorgan, West Wales or whatever.

It might be Newport or Cardiff in name in a first division, but in reality it will be a combined second or third team with absolutely nowhere to go.

Former greats who have represented these stalwart clubs and sweated blood for the honour of doing so will turn in their graves at what rugby's rulers, of all people, are now proposing.

And to think that all 239 clubs in the Welsh Rugby Union will have a vote on the future of rugby at the top end. More madness.

When I asked Griffiths at a press conference last week why every member club in Wales should decide on the future of a few at the top, his only answer was to repeat that they would all have a vote.

We know why that is, don't we? Because without the precious votes of all the clubs, those now making such shocking decisions would not be in power but reduced to the car salesmen, miners, steel workers they once were.

So Upper Cwmtyrch will decide on what happens to Newport or Cardiff. Can you believe that?

Rugby writers of the calibre of Stephen Jones and former players of the quality of Jeremy Guscott firmly believe Welsh rugby should always be based on its club system.

But now we are about to have a district system foisted upon us when the whole of Wales is only a district anyway.

Provincial rugby may have worked in countries like New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland, but it has always been that way there.

What about England? What about France? Their system is based on clubs, and anyone trying to interfere with that would be hung, drawn and quartered.

How dare Griffiths, Hansen and Cobner bring 130 years of Welsh club rugby crashing down. How dare they so wreck Welsh rugby's birthright.

It is the complete bumbledum and utter incompetence of Welsh rugby's rulers that has led to this pretty pass.

They have consistently underfunded the Welsh club game at the top end, they have been so hidebound to the smaller clubs, they have drifted for so long failing to give proper leadership - they are the ones who have caused this mess.

But all is not completely lost. There are still courses the top clubs can adopt.

While I would never advocate strike action by any group of workers, it is tempting for the leading clubs to refuse permission for their players to represent Wales.

It is the clubs and their owners who pay the players and people like Tony Brown have never even been consulted. Now, patronisingly and with huge cheek, Griffiths says the WRU would like to keep benefactors on board -- after destroying the very clubs Brown & co have bankrolled.

They ought to be given a two-word answer.

The top clubs could also apply to join the Zurich Premiership and leave Welsh rugby behind altogether.

Let them all stew in their own juice here and play in England. Newport have dual membership of the WRU and RFU anyway, so they can quite legitimately explore that possibility.

If the shameful route of provincial rugby is to be followed, if meaningful club rugby here is to be no more, then Wales' best should rise up and go.

Let those petty, mealy-mouthed, small-minded men in charge of Welsh rugby play with the traffic.

For they are driving Welsh rugby to ruination.