With the Six Nations now behind us, it could be argued that the form of Wales was one of the biggest stories of the championship. Not only did the Welsh lose all five of their fixtures in the tournament, but they played some appalling rugby at times.
In fact, they failed to score in the first half in four of their games. That is a crazy stat.
While it is true that Warren Gatland was attempting to blood a number of young players, it was fair to expect far more from his current squad. The Wales head coach revealed that he even offered to resign after the loss against Italy on Saturday:
I just said to Abi (WRU chief executive Abi Tierney) in the changing room, ‘If you want me to resign, I’m quite happy to do that’. She said: ‘Like hell, that’s the last thing I want, that’s what I’m really afraid of’.
One former Wales rugby star has now spoken about that offer to resign from his old coach.
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Rugby: Was Warren Gatland resignation offer a 'tactical' move?
Sam Warburton is someone who knows Warren Gatland very well, having worked alongside him with both Wales and the Lions for a number of years.
Speaking to BBC Sport, the former rugby star said that he felt the public acknowledgement of the offer to resign was a tactical move from Gatland in order to ease any building pressure on the Kiwi over the coming weeks.
He was probably thinking going towards the end of that game, ‘look we’re zero from five'. He’s been in Wales a long time, there’s going to be bullets fired.
Even though Wales are in a development process, he knows the press are going to come after him. I think it’s almost addressing the elephant in the room.
Rather than saying nothing and have two or three weeks of speculation; ‘is Warren the right man to lead Wales? Is he going to get sacked?’
Just saying that in the first post-match press conference, it means nothing is going to be written about Warren losing his job.
I thought it was premeditated and a tactical thing from Warren just to nip it in the bud, put a pin in that balloon and move on from that story.
A strange one, but he probably thought about that and it was probably a tactical choice to say that.
It's difficult to argue with that logic.
Warren Gatland clearly knew the task he was getting himself into when he returned to Wales, with the squad he inherited a far cry from the one he experienced so much success with during his first spell in charge.
He certainly has quite a long way to go if he is to turn this current group into a successful rugby team.
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