Warren Gatland says he is under pressure to leave Welsh rugby on a high
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Wales head coach Warren Gatland says he is under pressure to leave Welsh rugby on a high as he plots his final year in charge of the national side.
Gatland took over the Wales head coach role in 2007 and will leave after the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, a tournament he feels Wales can win.
"As the year goes on, it will really come home to roost that this is my final year," he told the Rugby Union Weekly podcast.
The Kiwi insists he has unfinished business at the World Cup, after over-performing to reach a semi-final in 2011 and then a quarter-final four years later.
"It's my last year and it's a pressured year because you want to leave on a high and say the national team is in a good state," he said.
"The two tournaments that really mean the most are the Six Nations and the World Cup, and you want to do as well as you can in those.
"It would be brilliant to win a Six Nations again and go on and make the final of the World Cup, or potentially win the World Cup. "That's the whole focus of the next 12 months."
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