Wales will go back to roots - Tompkins

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Wales centre Nick TompkinsImage source, Huw Evans Picture Agency

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Nick Tompkins has played 36 internationals for Wales

Centre Nick Tompkins says Wales will adopt a simplified crippled scheme against Australia that he admits group mightiness find "boring and tedious".

Wales arrived successful Australia connected a tally of 7 world defeats and having vanished bottommost of nan Six Nations for nan first clip successful 21 years.

Warren Gatland's broadside will look nan Wallabies successful a two-Test bid pinch nan opening crippled successful Sydney connected Saturday earlier nan lucifer successful Melbourne 7 days later.

Tompkins, 29, says Wales scheme to spell backmost to basics.

"We will astir apt person a much simplified crippled plan," Tompkins told the Rugby Union Daily podcast.

"You are going to spot what immoderate group mightiness find boring aliases tedious but we are going to get backmost to our roots, moving difficult and making judge our defence, kicking crippled and really we compete for nan shot is ascendant again.

"We are trying to portion things correct backmost and springiness ourselves thing we tin bent our chapeau connected and beryllium proud of.

"You person to springiness yourselves an personality arsenic a squad and that's really you breed confidence. You person to commencement pinch nan fundamentals."

Laying patient foundations

Tompkins believes nan attacking crippled will create erstwhile Wales person laid nan foundations.

"Attack takes a while," said Tompkins.

"You look really coherent Ireland are, it's not by magic, it's by a batch of players playing together for Leinster week successful week retired and they get that continuity and what you need.

"You are not going to get nan merchandise straightaway and you request to activity connected it daily, truthful that mightiness beryllium nan point that takes a spot longer.

"But successful position of defence, it is getting disconnected nan statement quicker and whacking group difficult and location is simply a batch of boys that do that very well.

"You tin get that facet and nan kicking crippled a small spot quicker.

"Attack takes a batch of clip truthful nan foundations of who we are needs to beryllium done now and nan good tuning of onslaught and different things tin beryllium worked on."

'Wales request to reconstruct pride'

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Nick Tompkins will circuit Australia for nan first clip pinch Wales aft travelling to South Africa 2 years ago

Saracens centre Tompkins says Wales are looking to reconstruct immoderate pride.

"It's backs against nan wall a small spot and we person to travel retired fighting and get immoderate pridefulness back," said Tompkins.

"We person not played good for a mates of games now and we request things of ourselves successful this country.

"We person sewage thing to suffer and request to travel retired swinging.

"The squad is united. If it was an ageing group this would beryllium a different situation and much difficult but what comes pinch younker is exuberance and carefree attitude."

Tompkins admits Wales request to beryllium mentally beardown arsenic they purpose to extremity a losing sequence.

"You get tested erstwhile you triumph but particularly erstwhile you suffer you don't want digit pointing, you don't want whispering down corridors and blaming different people," said Tompkins.

"You can't shirk aliases hide from it. You request to reside it and move on."

Moving on

That unity would person been tested by hooker Sam Parry leaving nan Wales training campy voluntarily earlier nan conclusion to South Africa pinch claims nan Ospreys hooker felt disrespected by caput coach Gatland.

"It's a reliable business because I cognize Sam rather well," said Tompkins.

"He's a beautiful boy and a superb player. He's been fed up and made his decision. I don't cognize if I would person done that personally.

"Ultimately he has missed retired connected an opportunity and I would person loved for him to person been present but it's his individual decision.

"We are getting connected pinch it and you person to."

Wales' opponents connected Saturday person besides endured difficult caller times connected and disconnected nan field.

Tompkins scored a effort against Australia successful nan grounds 40-6 World Cup triumph successful Lyon past twelvemonth pinch nan Wallabies bowing out.

Head coach Joe Schmidt has taken complete from Eddie Jones and selected a caller look squad.

"Australia person a bully caller coach and a squad that's hurting from nan World Cup truthful I americium expecting a batch from them," said Tompkins.

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