Expectations a little greater for departing Gatland and Schmidt

As we wait expectantly on the cusp of the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, the final round of the self-styled Rugby’s Greatest Championship seems an awfully long way down the track.

Yet when the final whistles blow in Rome, Cardiff, and Twickenham on March 16 it will sound the Last Post on not just this year’s Six Nations but the involvements of at least two, and possibly as many as four of the competition’s head coaches.