Win, lose or draw, Lions tour has enhanced Warren Gatland’s reputation

Whatever the result in the decider against New Zealand, those who have derided the 53-year-old’s methods as smash and drab have underestimated the coachClowntime is over. Whatever the result on Saturday, Warren Gatland will finish the series with his coaching reputation encased in cement a month after an aside he made at the end of a media conference when his methods had been questioned, which cursed the need for him to keep defending himself, was picked up on tape recorders and printed.Some in the New Zealand media were quick to write off Gatland as a failure, despite his success with Wasps, …