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If you applied the old adage about what isn’t broken doesn’t need to be fixed, you could make a strong case for Warren Gatland’s management team remaining intact for the foreseeable future.

Nevertheless, at the end of a World Cup there is always the whiff of change in the air, and you don’t need a sensitive nose to detect it around the present Wales camp.

WRU chairman Gareth Davies has said Gatland will be the one to decide whether his back-room team stays the same, is tinkered with, or subjected to wholesale change. That’s assuming nobody leaves of their own accord, of course.

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Davies added that throughout the World Cup he thought the New Zealander had done some “really good work to be perfectly honest”.

Hardly a ringing endorsement, but then again you don’t sense there is much of a relationship between Davies and Gatland as yet.

That may have to improve if the head coach is indeed going to be the one calling the shots on the make-up of his staff.

It is an inconvenient time for the two most powerful men in the Welsh game to be confronting the issue of who stays and who goes – if anyone.

The WRU leadership is in the midst of a hand-over, with chief executive Roger Lewis leaving at the end of the week to make way for his successor Martyn Phillips.

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Whether Phillips ends up boasting the same kind of clout Lewis did remains to be seen, but he and Davies – who has himself only been chairman for a year – may need to find their bearings before rubber-stamping fresh contracts.

Trouble is, with the Six Nations just three and a half months away time is of the essence.

So at this stage, just what does the future look like for the Wales team management?

Warren Gatland

It will be a relief to 99% of the Welsh rugby public that Gatland has shown no inclination to depart early from his post.

He is contracted until the end of the 2019 World Cup and clearly has designs on leading the Lions again in his homeland of New Zealand in 2017.

What’s more, after his success in Australia in 2013, and a World Cup campaign that has overwhelmingly drawn plaudits, he is currently favourite to get a second bite at the role.

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All this of course is to assume that Davies and Phillips are as amenable, if the Lions do come calling again, to him having time off from his day job as Roger Lewis and David Pickering were.

If the new men in charge were to try and block him from another Lions jaunt, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Gatland walk.

But that’s an issue for further down the track.

The most encouraging thing is that Gatland has dismissed ongoing links with the England job. And let’s face it, it would be extraordinarily awkward for him to go there straight from Wales.

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For now, Gatland must sort out his coaching henchmen and work on developing a good working relationship with his new bosses.

He got on well with Lewis, but then he was Lewis’ appointment.

Gatland will be greeted by a new WRU sign when he reports back to work ahead of the Six Nations: Under New Management.

Shaun Edwards

Out of contract within the next fortnight and, like Gatland, Edwards has been linked with a move to the England set-up when – and surely it is just a matter of time – the current Red Rose set-up is disbanded.

It’s a logical suggestion, but most Welsh fans would recoil at the idea of losing Edwards with the defensive operation of the national team so watertight.

Would Gatland recoil though? It’s a moot point.

You could describe these two as the Brian Clough and Peter Taylor of rugby such has been their success as a double-act.

But my view is that Gatland could take or leave Edwards, however the situation unfolds.

The former rugby league star is a brilliant coach, but he also has his eccentricities, his own way of working.

There have been whispers some in the Wales group were peeved when he brought up his future at a press conference following the heroic victory against Ireland in last season’s Six Nations.

My understanding is there were those who felt discussing his personal situation on the back of such an outstanding collective effort was poor form.

The episode has long been water under the bridge but Gatland has already shown us he doesn’t see Edwards as the be-all-and-end-all, having omitted him from his 2013 Lions coaching party.

He took Andy Farrell instead. What price Farrell switching from England to Wales? Stranger things have happened.

Whether Edwards himself wants to stay will obviously be a huge factor.

You may think he would have potential suitors hammering down his door. You may be surprised.

If he were to express a desire for a change, I don’t envisage Gatland trying to talk him out of it.

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Rob Howley

The former Lions scrum-half has a contract that takes him to the end of the tour to New Zealand next summer and it seems the only way he will go anywhere is if Gatland goes and takes Howley with him. It’s a very unlikely scenario.

As attack coach Howley will not be at all surprised to have received some stick over a perceived lack of creativity in the Wales side.

And yet he is a terrific coach. Passionate, organised, meticulous, knowledgeable, and these days boasting of a track record that commands respect.

I know of no inclination on Gatland’s part to dispense with him or any desire on Howley’s part to seek pastures new.

Even were he to be offered a No.1’s position at a top club, I’m not sure Howley would ditch the security of his current post.

Robin McBryde

Another whose contract is soon up and another who has had his critics during his time with Wales.

However, McBryde is very well thought of among the players and Gatland has been fiercely loyal to him from the word go.

McBryde is a personable sort of fellow who has grown as a coach since the rawness of his early days, and yet he could be vulnerable.

Rightly or wrongly, the problems Wales had at scrum time in the World Cup many people will largely lay at his door.

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You wonder whether McBryde would benefit from time spent working with one of the regions. You wonder whether, deep down, Gatland feels there is a need for someone else in this department.

The New Zealander may well wait for McBryde to get fixed elsewhere before making any move. If he makes a move at all, that is.

But the strides Australia, for example, have made under the stewardship of former Argentina hooker Mario Ledesma does make you wonder whether it’s time Wales brought in a scrum doctor of world repute.

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Neil Jenkins

As an employee of the WRU it’s not so much about an expiring contract with Jenkins, but if Gatland believed he wasn’t cutting the mustard as kicking coach he could ease him out of the door in terms of working with the national squad.

There are no signs of that happening mind you, and no indications that Jenkins isn’t doing a fine job.

Wales has the best goalkicker in the world in Leigh Halfpenny, and arguably the second best in Dan Biggar.

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Their extraordinary strike-rates are in large part down to their own work ethic but Jenkins, a metronome of renown in his playing days, has to take credit too.

There was a time when the kicking from hand among the squad was so poor you wondered whether they were taking to the field with pieces of Toblerone stuck to their laces.

But under Jenkins it has improved manifestly, even accounting for the fact that some members of the Welsh back-line are never going to boast kicking prowess.

Paul Stridgeon

Wales’ head of physical performance was appointed on a tournament-by-tournament basis last June and has already worked wonders. Expect him to continue combining this work with his duties at Toulon.

The dreadful number of injuries before and during the World Cup led some to question whether it had anything to do with the way Wales had prepared physically for the tournament.

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The answer has to be a resounding no.

The Welsh players, under Stridgeon’s guidance could have done no more. I’ve not the slightest doubt that no team prepared better for the World Cup in terms of conditioning.

Stridgeon’s appointment has been hailed as a coup by players and management colleagues alike.

He’s going nowhere.