Wales have lost 11 successive Test matches, while Warren Gatland has only won six out of 23 Tests in his second spell in charge of the team.
FILE - Wales head coach Warren Gatland and Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus shake hands ahead of their 2019 Rugby World Cup semi-final in Japan. Erasmus has backed Gatland to bounce back after 11 successive defeats in charge of Wales. Picture: Odd Andersen / AFPcoach Rassie Erasmus says his under-fire Wales counterpart Warren Gatland hasn’t suddenly become “a bad coach” despite Red Dragons’ historic downward spiral.
It’s why Erasmus resisted the urge to make wholesale changes for the match following their victory over England last weekend. "I know the record of losing 11 on the trot is obviously not great, whenever we play a team that's backs against the wall ... we take ourselves back, just before I took over in 2017, I think we lost 57-0 in New Zealand.“I just know Warren is a great coach and I know they've got great players. It's not clicking quite there. He is a guy who has fixed things before."
"Coaching can become lonely. It's cut-throat,“ Erasmus said."Whenever someone is under the pump, you don't wish anything bad on that person. I wouldn't say I'd love him to beat us, but I'd love him to be successful.
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