Mike Ruddock, who had won the Six Nations Grand Slam with Wales a year earlier, had resigned from his post in February. And he was succeeded two months later by Jenkins, who signed a two-year ...

Wales appointed Gareth Jenkins as their new head coach, replacing Mike Ruddock who resigned from the post earlier in the year, on this day in 2006. Ruddock had won the Grand Slam with Wales a year ...

Those relate chiefly to the handling of Mike Ruddock's exit, after the WRU's Red Zone ... with Pickering and Moffett recently encouraging Jenkins to apply for the Wales job. But Leeds director of ...

Jenkins was overlooked by the WRU when Mike Ruddock, who shocked Wales by stepping down on Tuesday, was appointed as national coach two years ago. The Scarlets supremo appeared to be the front-runner ...

Mike Forshaw expects Wales to encounter “a different animal ... including a possible all-Exeter second-row pairing of Dafydd Jenkins and Christ Tshiunza, plus a start for Leicester flanker ...

Gethin Jenkins says the Wales head coach should be based permanently ... Sherratt says he does not want the job permanently with Michael Cheika, Simon Easterby and Franco Smith linked with the ...

Mike knew when it was time to get out and made a success of things with Leinster before returning to Wales. The area where he scores over Gareth Jenkins is his greater worldliness having coached ...

Head coach Warren Gatland has appointed Alex King and Mike Forshaw to replace Stephen Jones and Gethin Jenkins in Wales' backroom staff. King will return to the attack coach role he held ...

However, he was told he was not wanted by Warren Gatland when his former coach returned last year for a second spell with Wales and was replaced by ex-rugby league coach Mike Forshaw. Jenkins is ...

No Gethin Jenkins. No Mike Phillips. No Adam Jones. So your starter for 10: when was the last time Wales played one of the big southern hemisphere three without any of that trio in the starting ...

King and Forshaw join Jonathan Humphreys and Neil Jenkins, who are retained from Wayne Pivac's set-up. "I'm delighted Alex and Mike are joining the Wales coaching team," said Gatland. "They both ...