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Autumn series: Wales v Australia

Venue: Principality Stadium, Cardiff Date: Sunday, 17 November Kick off: 16:10 GMT

Coverage: Stay on S4C, BBC Radio Wales, Radio Cymru, live text and commentary on the BBC Sport net situation and app

Tom Shanklin says the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) must earn away with Warren Gatland in the occasion that they endure defeats in opposition to Australia and South Africa.

Final weekend’s 24-19 loss in opposition to Fiji modified into a tenth successive Take a look at defeat, equalling Wales’ shedding dawdle characteristic under Steve Hansen in 2002 and 2003.

Wales will almost definitely be bidding to preserve a long way from a picture 11th loss in opposition to the Wallabies on Sunday with world champions Springboks arriving in Cardiff six days later.

“I arrangement no longer deem different nations would possibly perchance perchance maybe be as lenient,” passe Wales centre Shanklin suggested the Scrum V Warmth-up programme.

“With shedding 10 world games on the jump most coaches would possibly perchance perchance maybe be let mosey.”

Gatland returned for a 2nd stint as Wales head coach in December 2022 and has most productive six wins in 22 games, with out a victory since October 2023 in the World Cup in opposition to Georgia.

Here’s when in contrast to Gatland’s first 12-year spell where Wales won three Colossal Slams, four Six Countries and made two World Cup semi-finals.

“The topic with Warren is the success he has had sooner than that,” stated Shanklin.

“He has come in for his 2nd stint. When he came in 2008 and what he and the squad accomplished till 2019 modified into tall, with the Colossal Slams and the Championships, so he has credit in the bank.

“They [WRU] are being comparatively lenient, but these subsequent two games are large for him and the instructing team.

“If we arrangement no longer derive any ends in those, I arrangement no longer deem there would possibly be one other option as adverse to to gape for a new coach.”

Broken-down Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones believes the WRU hierarchy deserve to be arrangement end responsibility for failings.

“I are attempting to glimpse some accountability with the opposite folks that are making the selections on the whole game, no longer appropriate on the field,” stated Jones, who done 158 times for Wales and 12 Tests for the British and Irish Lions.

“The coaches are taking a lot of stick for the time being, but they and the players must no longer going in the market to lose.

“Having been eager by a fashion of turbulent times with issues admire wins, losses, strikes and mergers and the whole issues we comprise tried to correct it, why will we discover ourselves with these perennial complications that maintaining on in a cycle?

“Now we comprise had four or five different chief executives. We talk about leniency on the pitch, but has the leniency gone too a long way on the upper-ups?

“I’m no longer appropriate talking on the chief executive, who appointed the chief executive?”

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WRU chief executive Abi Tierney modified into appointed permanently in January 2024 by chairman Richard Collier-Keywood and acknowledged she would manufacture a new draw in the necessary half of the year.

A preliminary picture modified into published in June with the promise of the overall picture later in the year, but that has indifferent no longer been published.

“A option of issues are reactive in preference to proactive,” Jones suggested Scrum V The Warmth Up programme.

“We hear issues just a few picture that must be published and I deem we are indifferent ready.

“You gape on the success Wales had since 2005, but did we arrangement end it as a exact and deem of the next pass, in preference to the one in front?

“We talk about succession of players and coaches, but where is the succession with governance, all that form of stuff that are clearly now impacting the game?”

Jones says a protracted-term draw needs to be agreed.

“There are a lot of people in the market who are attempting to know what the thought is and we favor the verbal substitute,” stated Jones.

“At the same time because it is possible you’ll perchance perchance glimpse it, everybody can derive unimaginative it, beside the level of what is going down on the pitch.

“Rugby needs players and supporters, we are all stakeholders, if we’re no longer communicated to, other folks kill no longer know what’s occurring.

“Now we comprise had too a lot of those scenarios now, we appropriate need some form of thought.”

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