ALL the Gwent clubs in District A meet Welsh Rugby Union chiefs David Pickering and Steve Lewis tomorrow night.

The meeting is scheduled for the Hilton Hotel on the outskirts of Newport instead of the normal District A headquarters at Crumlin Rugby Club.

It is part of a series of meetings being held throughout Wales by Pickering and Lewis, called the Red Zone Road Show, in which they will explain their side of the Ruddockgate scandal.

The pair want to show in person why they removed Wales coach Mike Ruddock halfway through the current Six Nations Championship less than a year after Wales won the Grand Slam instead of at the end of the Six Nations when he wanted to go. They also want to give the background to the whole saga.

But the first meeting last night when Lewis and Pickering met the District F clubs at Ammanford did not go too well because though the clubs felt the pair made a decent case they said afterwards they were still in favour of calling an extraordinary meeting of all WRU clubs.

The reason for that is that they want to hear Ruddock's side of the story, and they have no doubt they could secure the necessary ten clubs needed to call an egm which would probably turn out to be a vote of confidence in Lewis and Pickering.

Gwent is the biggest district in Wales and their views tomorrow night could go a long way towards deciding the future of Lewis, who is from the Gwent region, and Pickering.

The chances of Scott Johnson finishing as Wales coach after just three matches in charge and returning to Australia at the end of the Six Nations have increased.

New Australia head coach John Connolly, the former Queensland Reds, Swansea and Bath chief, is coming over to this country and will almost certainly meet up with Johnson and Michael Foley of Bath, the former Australia hooker.

Connolly is believed to want Johnson and Foley to work with him in charge of the Australian national team while Johnson's well documented family problem remains an issue as well.