{"id":285748,"date":"2025-07-23T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285748\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:29:10","slug":"steve-tandy-the-tasks-facing-new-wales-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285748\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Tandy: The tasks facing new Wales head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend was disappointed to lose Tandy, whose appointment has split opinion on social media.<\/p>\n

Views range from people being underwhelmed to others saying he is the right man at the right time.<\/p>\n

Tandy, 45, knows Welsh rugby always provokes debate and the former no-nonsense flanker will need a thick skin to deal with the role.<\/p>\n

Some have gone as far as to suggest this is an impossible job. Reddin disagrees.<\/p>\n

“From my perspective, I don’t think it’s impossible at all,” said Reddin.<\/p>\n

“Are Wales going to be consistently ranked as the number one team in the world for the next 10 years? No, I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

“But can we be a genuine, top-five nation who are constantly competing for Six Nations titles, capable of mixing it with the best in the world? 100%. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be here.”<\/p>\n

Tandy will have to win over the doubters and the only way to do that, in the long-term, will be by delivering results. <\/p>\n

Given the dire situation Tandy is inheriting, that will be the ultimate test, with former Wales captain Jonathan Davies saying he needs time.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reddin says he hopes to provide Tandy with the tools to succeed.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think anybody gets inspired by a team that says, ‘well, we’re going to rock up and do our best’,” said Reddin.<\/p>\n

“Especially a passionate rugby nation like Wales, we’ve got to be more ambitious than that. Passion on its own is not enough, it’s useless.<\/p>\n

“You’ve got to get all the other bits right as well. If you’ve got those bits right, the passion can carry you somewhere special.”<\/p>\n

Welsh rugby will hope Tandy will be the man to deliver on such bold sentiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend was disappointed to lose Tandy, whose appointment has split opinion on social media.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-285748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114903735599500154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}