Scott Gibbs has urged Wayne Pivac to use the Tests against South Africa this summer to draft in fresh faces and see what a Wales rebuild looks like.
The British and Irish Lions' kingpin from the 1997 series in the republic would also like Springboks coaches Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber to operate from a similar playbook. Both sets of coaches still rely significantly on many of the players who featured at the 2019 in Japan.
But Gibbs said: “If I were Pivac or Rassie or Jacques at the moment, I’d be saying: ‘Listen, maybe we need to start thinking what a rebuild looks like because we can’t carry on the legacy from Japan four years hence. There’s clearly an array of talent that we need to blood and how do we do that? Let’s free up some spaces.’”
