KEY QUESTIONS FOR TANDY AHEAD OF WALES'TESTING AUTUMN CAMPAIGN

STEVE Tandy will name his first Wales squad next week and selection meetings will undoubtedly intensify over the next few days.

- By STEFFAN THOMAS

Realistically, due to Wales’ shallow talent pool, Tandy will have to select the majority of the same players who were involved under Warren Gatland and Matt Sherratt.

But there are still a lot of places up for grabs and Tandy will no doubt want to stamp his own authority on the squad.

Tandy has taken on a difficult task and it is not an easy fixture schedule with Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa coming to Cardiff.

There are a number of key questions Tandy and his assistant coaches will need to answer before he names his squad.

THIS is always one of the first things a new head coach has to work out.

Wales need an identity and they need to find a style of play which gets the best out of the players available.

During the first Warren Gatland era, Wales had a pack of forwards and even a backline who could go toe-to-toe with the strongest teams in the world.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case during his second stint in charge and the game plan arguably didn’t suit the strengths of the players at his disposal.

This is what Tandy has to get right and he needs buy-in from all the players.

Currently, Welsh rugby hasn't got the size or the power of most of the other tier one nations, so getting drawn into an arm wrestle would be foolish.

How much of an influence will attack coach Matt Sherratt have with regards the style of play?

“I'm not a coach to say we lack power, my job is to find a different way,” he said towards the end of the Six Nations.

“Perhaps as a nation we've got to have ball movement, better shape, try and get one-v-ones and play a faster game - and the players’ conditioning and training week has to be around that”