Rob Howley says Wales will see Warren Gatland at his greatest, as the pinnacle coach tries to show across the flagging fortunes of the boys’s nationwide aspect.
Gatland’s aspect want to keep away from a ninth successive worldwide defeat as they bid to degree the sequence in opposition to Australia in Melbourne on Saturday.
The 25-16 first Check defeat in Sydney was Gatland’s 14th defeat in 20 matches since he returned for a second stint in cost in December 2022.
After Wales reached the 2023 World Cup quarter-final, Gatland’s aspect have misplaced eight Checks in a row and completed backside of the Six Nations for the primary time since 2003.
Howley was a part of the Wales teaching workers that guided the aspect to world primary with 14 successive victories in 2018 and 2019.
He was additionally concerned within the teaching crew that suffered eight defeats in 2012 and 2013, with Wales’ report dropping sequence standing at 10 beneath Steve Hansen in 2002 and 2003.
Gatland is getting ready Wales for the ultimate worldwide of the season and hoping they will end the sequence in opposition to the Wallabies on degree phrases.
“That’s the place you see Warren Gatland at his greatest via his expertise that he has,” mentioned Wales assistant coach Howley.
“Not many people have skilled the variety of losses that now we have had however Warren mentioned after the sport [in Sydney] it’s what it’s.
“We hold difficult our gamers to enhance individually and collectively.
“We again our gamers’ choices. We hope in some unspecified time in the future via that have of those gamers enjoying extra worldwide video games, we are going to recover from the road.
“We now have to maintain knocking on the door, working arduous, trusting your programs and hold believing.
“Warren does that very effectively.”
