Today's rugby news as Warren Gatland interview 'a tough watch' and former players stunned

Your morning rugby headlines on Monday, November 18.

Biggar doesn't know where Wales go now

Wales legend Dan Biggar says he simply doesn't know where Wales go now.

Speaking on TNT Sports after the game, the former fly-half suggested that it might be time for a change after yet another loss, but questioned who could replace Warren Gatland. The Wales coach admitted afterwards he will consider his future with the WRU.

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"It's eight tries with a 20-minute red card," began Biggar.

"They [Wales] looked like a team absolutely bereft of ideas there at the end, the confidence looked shot.

"The honest answer is I don't know where Wales are, where the team goes from here with South Africa coming to town next week, the first game of the Six Nations in Paris away and then Italy in the second weekend.

"You do wonder when is enough enough? But would changing the head coach going to make this team better and suddenly go and win games?

"We are down to 11th in the world [rankings] and have South Africa and France to face next, so the question on everyone's lips is when does the run stop? A change in head coach wouldn't harm things because they can't be worse."

After watching Gatland's post-match interview with TNT Sports, Biggar added: "That was a difficult watch, wasn't it? You could see the pain in Warren. You could see how disappointed he was, and how much it's hurting him as well. If there's people out there that think getting rid of Warren is the answer to al the problems, who do you bring in? It's not as simple as get rid of Warren and that's the end of it."

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Welsh rugby reacts to defeat

Wales' rugby community have given strong reactions on social media following Wales' 52-20 loss against the Wallabies.

Former Wales international Dafydd James suggested that a "changing of the guard" is needed. Insinuating that Gatland and Co should be replaced, James also said: "So frustrating Against 14 men. I don’t think it can get any worse for us."

Towards the end of the game, Jonathan 'Jiffy' Davies simply wrote: "Oh my word.....", whilst Tom Shanklin gave a similar, short response: "Gone backwards. Oh my days"

Wales international Sam Cross wrote: "Welsh Regional Rugby / WRU = turns out 10 years of poor investment in coaching, lack of quality foreign players, lack of investment in young players and academies, lack of investment in nutrition and supplementation of players / ability to be professional, cutting budgets, reducing squad sizes and the quality / depth of the professional game in Wales can lead to the worst national team results in history.

"Can’t say the boys on the field aren’t giving everything they’ve got, their just handicapped by the hand they’ve been dealt in my honest opinion."

Former Wales flanker Emyr Lewis said: "The coach's job is to make the players play better. If the players aren't improving you need to ask questions of the coach, and I don't believe the team has improved at all.

"Another problem is I don't think he's picking the right teams at all."

Lake: We feel the same as fans

Wales captain Dewi Lake says the players feel the same as the fans following their huge loss against Australia.

Wales shipped 52 points to the Wallabies, in a record 11th successive Test match defeat. Skipper Lake appeared to be devastated in his post-match interviews, and explained how much the players are hurting.

"We feel the same as everyone does at home," explained the captain to S4C.

"We're disappointed with the run that we're on, with the result today. We want to win games; we train hard, we work hard to win games, but we're not there yet.

"We show we're a team with weapons when we have the ball, but we need to stop other teams with the ball. Fifty points [conceded] tonight, we need to improve. They scored from three mauls tonight, that's normally our game. They've stopped our mauls and scored three of their own and that's just not good enough.

"I don't think anything (major) needs to change, we just need to click. In key moments in that game, half-time we were six points down, we went into the half with the momentum and came out thinking we're in this game. One try and we would've been ahead, but the game got away. We don't need to reinvent the wheel here, we just need to take our points."

Steward: England players at fault, not coach

By Duncan Bech, PA England Rugby Correspondent

Freddie Steward insists the players and not Steve Borthwick are at fault for the autumn washout that has piled pressure on England’s head coach.

Steward believes Borthwick has been “let down” by his team after South Africa clinched a 29-20 victory on Saturday, completing a clean sweep of defeats by the southern hemisphere giants after New Zealand and Australia also stormed Allianz Stadium this month.

Borthwick has revealed there will changes for the climax to the series against Eddie Jones’ Japan on Sunday, among them the return of Tom Curry and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso from concussion.

Japan, ranked 14th in the world, are expected to end England’s five-Test losing run that has left Borthwick facing questions over his future. Steward believes it is the players who should be held responsible.

“We almost let Steve down. I don’t think the fault should go to him at all. The fault probably lies in our hands,” the Leicester full-back said.

“As players we had a game plan that put us in position to win that game. We’ve got to look at ourselves as to why we didn’t pull away at the end and go back ahead.

“Steve is an unbelievable coach. He has a great rugby brain, is an unbelievable motivator and man manager. As players we believe in everything he’s bringing to this team.”