THE Wales management team could be next to go after the decision by the Welsh Rugby Union to remove Gareth Jenkins as coach.

Jenkins was the head man, but he also brought in his own back-up team, and on the basis of collective responsibility they are next in line.

Jenkins surrounded himself with Welsh coaches and managers, apart from Alan Phillips who was already team manager and had been for the previous six years. But few of them had any coaching experience, certainly not at the highest level.

Nigel Davies was his assistant coach, Robin McBryde the forwards coach, Rowland Phillips the defence coach and Neil Jenkins the kicking guru.

Though they have contracts and major compensation would be involved - Jenkins will probably get around £100,000 as his contract ran until the end of the Six Nations - there is a will to change root and branch now.

The WRU board hold a full meeting tomorrow when the future of the management team will certainly be up for discussion.

"We will conduct a full review, we will meet with the coaching staff on Wednesday and there is a full board meeting on Tuesday," said WRU group chief executive Roger Lewis.

Chairman David Pickering also revealed the decision to remove Jenkins was taken for his benefit as much as anything else.

"We have handled this with sensitivity and we have conducted it behind closed doors. Once the decision had been made Gareth was told his contract would not be renewed and the direction he was taking was not what we wanted," he said. "We were aware the criticism would be enormous so we wanted to act quickly and did not want the vilification of Gareth."

Meanwhile, a short term appointment has to be made for the friendly against South Africa on November 24. A leading candidate could be former Ebbw Vale captain Kingsley Jones who coached Sale to the Zurich Premiership title two years ago.