Warren Gatland reaches 100 with Wales but admiration remains elusive | Paul Rees

A team once renowned for flakiness and unreliability now take some beating but the Wales coach will leave after the World Cup with praise rather than fanfare or gratitudeWarren Gatland will on Saturday reach 100 Test matches as Wales’s coach. He will get to the landmark 20 years to the day since he took over from Brian Ashton in charge of Ireland: his sacking three years later, in circumstances that read like something from a spy novel, remains the low point in his career, a blot all his success since has not entirely erased.As the amateur era drifted to its end, the winner of the match betwee…