Wales have conceded 248 points and 34 tries in Tandy’s five games in charge so far with no specialist defence coach in place.<\/p>\n
Tandy combines the head coach job with the defence position, the specialist role that he had successfully held with Scotland and the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n
Pundits such as former Wales wing Alex Cuthbert and ex-Scotland captain John Barclay have questioned whether Tandy can do both roles.<\/p>\n
But Sherratt said the arrangement will continue. <\/p>\n
“He is a very good defence coach, he is the British Lions defence coach and it’s not one thing [causing the problems],” he said.<\/p>\n
As the attack coach, Sherratt comes up against France defence coach and former Wales favourite Shaun Edwards this weekend.<\/p>\n
“I know Shaun well, I worked with him with Wales, Cardiff and the Ospreys and he’s a world-class coach,” said Sherratt.<\/p>\n
“It’s more about the players going against their defence rather than me against Shaun because, on and off the pitch, he’s pretty formidable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales have conceded 248 points and 34 tries in Tandy’s five games in charge so far with no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-420491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}