Coach has so far relied on players moulded by Warren Gatland but Saturday’s team to face Georgia will bear Pivac’s imprint
Wayne Pivac has had more than Georgia on his mind this week. The theme of his year as Wales’s head coach has been broken dreams and whatever the result in Llanelli against opponents who have conceded 88 points to
Scotland and
England in the last month while scoring seven, the day of reckoning will come seven days later when England make the journey west.
Wales’s descent from Six Nations champions and
World Cup semi-finalists has been alarmingly precipitous. Six successive defeats have left Pivac standing on the brink in a country which had four head coaches between the 1987-91 and 2003-07 World Cups. It is not just the results: the performances, especially since the return from lockdown, have been the opposite of what went before, the bullies bashed.