Warren Gatland prepares to cut Wales to the World Cup chase

• Coach expects to reduce squad from 47 after match with Ireland• Younger players have chance to make their mark in warm-up gameAfter a month training “out of their comfort zone” at altitude in Switzerland and in the sweltering heat of Qatar the Wales squad will have it easier this week on returning to their base at the Vale of Glamorgan to prepare to face Ireland at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, the first of three warm-up matches before the World Cup.Warren Gatland intends to use this weekend to help him reduce his Wales squad from 47 to 36 or 38. Wales’s following warm-up game is a ret…