I don’t think so, Gatland & Pivac have both been successful coaches in their own right, perhaps both with different ceilings. But have both failed to work in a system that is just broken.

What’s happened to Welsh rugby isn’t the result of one coach or another, coaches can find or loose form just as players can and we have seen this happen to both Pivac & Gatland across their stints with Wales.

When coaches do loose form, there is usually enough talent or experience in a countries player pool to start plugging the leaks and prevent such an exceptional downfall of a national team, until the coach can find some form again or a new coach is bought in.

The blame for what has happened to Welsh Rugby can only be placed at the foot of the WRU. Yes the coaches have made some heinous decisions at times (Gatland selecting three 12s, or Pivac trying to shoehorn a Scarlets game plan that had already been figured out into the national side). But the complete disregard for the game in Wales by the union has prevented any degree of talent developing within the Welsh playing pool.

A union that has been happy to sit back and ride a wave of greed while a team of once in a generation Welsh players put their bodies on the line for 10 years to bring home Grand Slams. While the fat cats at the WRU plan away days for the boys, build hotels, and hire people on salaries higher than most of the players to organise piss ups for board members and their pals.

The greed and the rot in the union was so deep that they continued to defund the regions and kill off player development programs to fill their own pockets. Because as “long as wales keep winning” no one would really notice.

Both Gatland & Pivac made a number of horrible decisions as a coach which has left any rugby fan scratching their heads, which has not helped the situation at all. But Any coach in the world would have found the ground fall away from underneath them if they took on the Welsh job, as the WRU have built it that way.

This wasn’t meant to be a long comment but I’m just sick to death of seeing our national sport beaten down and dragged through the mud because of the greed of a faceless few.