**The Welsh Rugby Union is to take a dim view of Andy Powell after his drink-drive charge following an alleged golf buggy incident, BBC Wales understands.**The back-row was arrested with another man at 0600 GMT on Sunday at services off junction 33 of the M4 near the team hotel in the Vale of Glamorgan.
That was hours after he played in the dramatic 31-24 win over Scotland.
Ex-Wales captains Phil Bennett, Robert Jones and Mike Hall suggested this may spell the end of his Wales career.
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“I think he [Powell] has gone,” former British and Irish Lions three-quarter Hall told BBC Wales’ Scrum V rugby programme.
“Powell was struggling to stay in the team on form anyway”
Phil Bennett
"I don’t see him featuring against France at all and I don’t think this management team will put up with it.
"It’s without question [enough reason to be dropped from the squad], an extremely stupid thing to do.
“He’s a high profile public figure and I think [Wales coach] Warren Gatland will come down on him like a ton of bricks.”
BBC Sport Wales understands that Powell will appear before the Welsh management on Monday or Tuesday.
Brecon-born Powell, 28, has won 14 caps and toured with the Lions squad to South Africa last summer after a breakthrough season for Wales.
“Jonathan Thomas is probably a better bet because he’s more of a natural number six, Powell is a number eight”
Robert Jones
The Cardiff Blues man has been a favourite of Gatland’s and last season he displaced Wales captain Ryan Jones from his favoured number eight position before being chosen ahead of his national skipper for the Lions tour.
But this season Jones has regained his favoured eight jersey meaning that Powell has been moved to the blind-side flank.
His position may have been under threat before the buggy incident, with many fans and pundits calling for Jonathan Thomas to take the number six jersey.
Former Scotland scrum-half Bryan Redpath told Scrum V that playing Powell out of position was having a knock-on effect on open-side flanker Martyn Williams’ effectiveness, and Bennett and Jones agreed that changes should be made.
“Powell was struggling to stay in the team on form anyway,” former Wales and Lions fly-half Bennett told Scrum V.
"[Against Scotland] we were devastated by their back row.
"I’d be looking to move Jonathan Thomas back to six to give us some height.
“Gatland’s a disciplinarian and will come down hard on Powell.”
Former Wales and Lions scrum-half Jones added: "Our combination in the back row is not right.
"What is the job of a six He’s there to hit rucks, to do all the donkey work and to carry tightly and effectively, and that balance isn’t quite right.
“Jonathan Thomas is probably a better bet because he’s more of a natural number six, Powell is a number eight.”