Head coach Warren Gatland says he offered to resign to Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Abi Tierney after leading Wales to their first Wooden Spoon in 21 years.

Gatland returned to Wales in 2022.

Asked whether he wanted to guide Wales through to the 2027 World Cup, Gatland replied: "Yes, absolutely. I've made that commitment."

Gatland added: "I just said to Abi [Tierney] in the changing room if you want me to resign, I'm quite happy to do that.

"She said 'like hell, that's the last thing I want, that's what I'm really afraid of'.

"But I can promise you we'll go away and review this really carefully. We've already done some review stuff and [we'll] work on areas that need to improve."

WRU executive director of rugby Nigel Walker has previously calling Gatland the best coach in the world.

When asked whether he was confident he could turn things around, Gatland replied: "Absolutely. I've never shied away from that.

"We've had glimpses where we've been really good in this tournament. We need to do that for longer periods."

This was a 12th Wales defeat in the last 13 games in the tournament, including seven successive Six Nations home losses.

Since he returned, Gatland has only won one game in 10 Six Nations matches, with a solitary away victory against Italy in Rome last year.

His overall record of his second spell in charge is six wins in 18 games, with four of those victories coming in the World Cup in France last year where Wales reached the quarter-finals before losing to Argentina.

Gatland has lost a lot of experience in the past year with the retirements of Alun Wyn Jones, Justin Tipuric, Rhys Webb, Dan Biggar, Josh Navidi, Leigh Halfpenny and now George North.

Liam Williams, Gareth Anscombe, Tomas Francis, Taulupe Faletau, Jac Morgan, Taine Plumtree, Christ Tshiunza and Dewi Lake have been unavailable for this campaign because of injury or club commitments.

Gatland says his coaching staff were "gutted" at this campaign.

"We're hurting as coaches and players," said Gatland.

"I know the fans are hurting. It doesn't help, but I can see light at the end of the tunnel because we've got a fantastic group of guys who I know have worked hard.

"There is a huge amount of inexperience, haven't played a lot of regional rugby and we're exposing them at the Test level.

"It's a real challenge. I said to the players in the changing room that when they turn up to the summer tour, make sure they're doing their extras and work-ons conditioning-wise, the gym work and that they're ready to go.

"This rebuild isn't harder than we thought, we knew the inexperience we had in the squad and the players we asked to step up to leadership roles.

"It's about taking the good out of the games and showing what we need to do."

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