“Roger Lewis [the former WRU chief executive] asked me when I first went to Wales, ‘What would you do?’ And I said I would put investment into the schoolboy programme or the schools programme.
Maybe initially £1m a year to get ten or 12 top schools up and running with investment into their facilities, even helping with the appointment of directors of rugby at the schools.
“And I can imagine that if it had been ten to 15 of the colleges or the traditional rugby schools in Wales, I think we would have had the benefit.
Gatland’s second stint in charge of Wales came to an end by mutual consent last week after presiding over a record losing run of 14 consecutive matches.
Warren Gatland has apportioned some of the blame for the decline of Welsh rugby on Margaret Thatcher after claiming that the teacher strikes in the 1980s helped “kill off” the sport in schools.
