Steve Tandy is the favorite to succeed Warren Gatland as the top coach of Wales’ males’s workforce, sources have confirmed to ESPN.
The 45-year-old is at present with Scotland as their defence coach, and is underneath contract by way of to 2026.
If the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) do handle to influence Tandy to take up the top coach position, then a compensation package deal will must be agreed with the Scottish Rugby Union and Tandy is unlikely to be in place for Wales’ summer season tour of Japan.
The information of the WRU’s curiosity in Tandy comes throughout a turbulent time in Welsh rugby. The boys’s nationwide workforce is on a run of 17 defeats on the bounce.
Gatland left Wales after two matches within the 2025 Six Nations, and was changed on an interim foundation by Cardiff’s Matt Sherratt however he was unable to snap Wales’ shedding streak.
The curiosity in Tandy comes because the WRU seeks to overtake its rugby administration construction. It is anticipated the WRU will first transfer to verify the appointment of Dave Reddin as its new director of rugby this week earlier than any announcement over Gatland’s successor.
Tandy has emerged because the favorite — however is but to signal any deal — after a number of different names have been linked with the emptiness. Michael Cheika, Danny Wilson, Simon Easterby and Franco Smith have been additionally names talked about with the submit, nevertheless it’s Tandy who’s in pole place.
Tandy is aware of the Welsh system effectively having performed regional rugby, after which coached the Ospreys from 2012 to 2018. He joined Scotland in 2019 as their defence coach and was a part of the British & Irish Lions backroom employees for his or her 2021 tour of South Africa, the place he labored beneath Gatland.
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