Heineken Cup future remains uncertain as clubs' meeting in Dublin fails to agree a way forward "Everyone aired their views," Mark McCafferty, the Premiership Rugby chief executive, said. One of the French delegates, Patrick Wolff, vice-president of the Ligue Nationale de Rugby, stated that the "schedule followed by Premier Rugby in doing this was inappropriate." Wolff also told The Daily Telegraph that there were no plans to have an Anglo-French competition as an alternative to the Heineken Cup if future talks failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion. "Absolutely not, there is not a plan for this sort of competition," Wolff said. We want to give every chance to the Heineken Cup to succeed. We want the English in there as well, of course we do. It was a typical first meeting in these sort of negotiations. We all exchanged our views and ideas about the sporting issues. The money was not a big issue for the day. The French do side with England in the desire for change. Their preferred format is to have six French clubs, six from England and six from the RaboDirect Pro12 in a competition reduced from 24 teams to 20, with the other two teams being the champions of the Heineken and Amlin Cups from the previous season. It is believed that there was a recognition of the need for some sort of revamp, but there was no common ground yet as to how this might be achieved. "We need to look at the detail of the sporting concerns first as this is a big change for people," Wolff said. That is why we need to go away now and look at the possibilities. I am optimistic still that this will come about and that we can find a solution. In June, the English and French clubs gave the requisite two-year notice of their intention to quit if no agreement could be reached on a reconstituted tournament. There are likely to be several more meetings yet. "There were a lot of new people at the table today as we haven't done this for five years so it is going to take some time," Derek McGrath, the chief executive of European Rugby Cup, the organisers of the Heineken and Amlin Cups, said. We are hopeful this will be resolved. This season's Heineken Cup begins on the weekend of Oct 12 with the final at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on May 18.