SINCE Warren Gatland decided to retire himself as Lions coach earlier this week his motives have been questioned. It’s been suggested that he is too thin-skinned for top end sport, that it’s timely promotion for his new book, and – all the way from New Zealand – that he is wrong to position himself as a victim.
Those judgements are a distortion of the issues surrounding Gatland’s role in the 2017 Lions tour, including the criticism by one of the tour’s stand-out players, Sean O’Brien, that they would have won the series 3-0 with better coaching.
It ...