Gatland considers heading home

Wasps coach Warren Gatland is considering cutting short his stay at the London club and returning to his New Zealand homeland.

Gatland, who guided the side to the Zurich Premiership title for the second successive season and won the Heineken European Cup, is contracted for another two seasons but is talking of possibly quitting at the end of next season.

The former Irish coach and All Blacks hooker admits there is little left for him to prove in the northern hemisphere.

“I may see it out or I may just do one more year,” said Gatland, who is back in New Zealand on holiday.

“If I stay for the full two years I would have been away from New Zealand for nine years. It is probably time to come back.”

Gatland said he has had rugby clubs and unions from both hemispheres beating a path to his door.

“I think if you’re successful then obviously you’re in demand,” Gatland told the Waikato Times.

“For me everything has to be on my own terms. I don’t have to worry too much financially and I just want to come home to where my family are.”