Warren Gatland believes Andy Farrell is right to follow his Lions lead

Gatland believes if people perceived Farrell was pulling Ireland’s strings from afar it would be undermining to both Easterby and the Lions.

Wales’ head coach Warren Gatland at the launch of the 2025 Guinness Men’s Six Nations Championship at the Colosseum in Rome. Picture: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland

Three-time British & Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland has urged Andy Farrell to be completely neutral as he runs the rule over his potential tourists for this summer during the upcoming Guinness Six Nations.

Farrell succeeds Gatland for the 2025 tour to Australia and three-Test series against Joe Schmidt’s Wallabies having served as the Lions defence coach alongside his predecessor in 2009 and as his assistant in 2013 and 2017.