CHRIS HEWETT
Few people on God’s earth know more about professional Welsh rugby than Warren Gatland, who successfully coached the Test side through three World Cup cycles across a dozen years.
Yet when the celebrated Mooloo Man from Waikato signed up for a second tour of duty ahead of the Six Nations, he found that he didn’t know the half of it.
There were governance troubles, money supply troubles, form and fitness troubles – troubles on an industrial scale, which quickly resulted in a crisis of industrial relations. For all his experience, Gatland was taken aback. You could see it in his ...