Tandy has made four starting personnel changes for the French test and kept faith with captain and hooker Dewi Lake, who received criticism after Wales’ misfiring line-out against England.<\/p>\n
“The game is hard and we aren’t going to make knee-jerk decisions,” said Tandy.<\/p>\n
“Dewi is our captain and leads from the front. People can come in for some stick without often understanding the full detail of what it is. <\/p>\n
“You then have to examine the areas for which he is getting stick. If it is around the line-out, there are lots of things that can be different, like the call or opposition. <\/p>\n
“There was never a doubt in my mind about Dewi playing this weekend.”<\/p>\n
Tandy says any personal abuse suffered by players on social media was wrong.<\/p>\n
“The only time I get aware is when people tell me things,” said Tandy.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never been on social media and never searched for something, whether it’s good or bad.<\/p>\n
“People will give me the information, I’ve got young kids as well.<\/p>\n
“I want to be aware for the players, because I know lots of that is ridiculous because these are human beings. <\/p>\n
“It’s having an awareness of what’s going on, making sure you can help those, but also be aware you’re in high-end sport and international rugby.”<\/p>\n
Tandy says there is going to be scrutiny.<\/p>\n
“I don’t need people to tell me when we didn’t perform, I totally understand that, and feel I’m a very honest person,” said Tandy.<\/p>\n
“I spoke to players about outside influences not influencing us. <\/p>\n
“There is disappointment, and we love our support, and we want to make the country proud of how we play. <\/p>\n
“We’ve got to give everything we can, and make sure we can be the best we can be, any time we represent the Welsh jersey.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tandy has made four starting personnel changes for the French test and kept faith with captain and hooker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-477954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}