Gatland wants ‘ruthless’ display from Wales

WARREN GATLAND has demanded an 80-minute show of “ruthlessness and concentration” when Wales pursue a prized and all too rare Tri Nations scalp today.

World champions South Africa, led by their imperious second-row forward Victor Matfield, will arrive at the Millennium Stadium as firm favourites to strike another knockout blow for the southern hemisphere heavyweights.

Wales’ repeated failure to the crack the code of success against world rugby’s big three is hardly something they have inherited under Gatland. Admittedly, his record with Wales against them is not good – played 11, lost 10 – and another loss this weekend would allow the harbingers of doom a field day just two weeks before the All Blacks roll into town.