{"id":8771,"date":"2026-02-16T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:16:52","slug":"wales-coach-steve-tandy-needs-help-with-defence-says-sam-warburton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=8771","title":{"rendered":"Wales coach Steve Tandy needs help with defence, says Sam Warburton"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Warburton won two Six Nations titles, including a Grand Slam, with a Wales team built on the rock-solid defensive foundation provided by Shaun Edwards, who now holds that role for France.<\/p>\n

The former Wales captain said Tandy needs help with defence.<\/p>\n

“Steve’s admitted he’s probably spread himself a bit too thinly,” Warburton told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“He’s been doing the defence with Dan Lydiate but then you’re trying to do the defence with all the other things that come with being a head coach.<\/p>\n

“Dan is more the micro defensive skills [such as] tackle technique, competition on the floor.<\/p>\n

“Wales don’t have a full-time defence coach [and] it’s not just about being a coach during campaign time. When the players are playing for their clubs, you’re there full-time, watching the regions play, or the Welsh-qualified players playing in England, and you can still keep dialogue and send clips.<\/p>\n

“He needs to bring in a defence coach [but] it sounds like they can’t get people out of their contracts because it’s difficult to bring people in mid-season.<\/p>\n

“For someone to come in as a full-time defence coach, they need to be tried and tested at this level.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Warburton won two Six Nations titles, including a Grand Slam, with a Wales team built on the rock-solid defensive foundation provided by Shaun Edwards, who now holds that role for France. The former Wales captain said Tandy needs help with defence. “Steve’s admitted he’s probably spread himself a bit too thinly,” Warburton told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}