Wales has the talent to get up again, explains the head coach of rugby tandy

The Chef Rugby Union of New Wales, Steve Tandy, thinks he will have the talent at his disposal to reach the ambitious target of a return to the five best world teams.

Tandy has become the first Welshman to train the national team since 2007, when Wales slipped 12th in the world ranking and lost 17 successive games before beating Japan last month in the last game of Matt Sherratt’s provisional reign.

Wales was semi-finalists of the 2019 World Cup under Warren Gatland and the Wayne Pivac team won the Six Nations 2021 championship.

But the reign of Pivac quickly collapsed and the return of Gatland produced no resumption of fortune, with his coming departure during the Six Nations in 2025 in February.

The Welsh Rugby Union said it wanted to see Wales in the first five in the world by 2029.

“The privilege and honor of being a head coach of your national country are massive,” said Tandy, who ended a six-year stay as a Scottish Defense coach to return to Wales.

“I believe in the talent that we have in Wales, to bring us where we want to go.

“There will not be a magic wand or a quick solution, then everything changes, but I believe in the path.

“In the end, you want to have an ambition. We want to have the ambition to achieve these goals, but in the end, there is also a process to get there.”

Tandy won the Pro12 competition in six years in Ospreys but left the Welsh region in 2018.

He worked for NSW Waratahs in Australia before moving to Scotland, while Gatland did him a defense coach during the British and Irish lions tour in 2021 in South Africa.

Tandy assumes her role on September 1 and will prepare for autumn home games against Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa.

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