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Published 09:50 12 Jan 2016 GMT
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New England boss Eddie Jones would need an emphatic, winning Six Nations campaign to stand a chance of claiming the post.
At the announcement of yet another commercial deal, on Monday, Lions chief executive John Feehan stated that Gatland was the frontrunner. Feehan told reporters:
"It would absolutely ludicrous of me to say that Warren would not be the leading contender, he clearly is. "If he is involved in the next tour it will be a third tour for him, he has a record that is pretty much second to none in the northern hemisphere and so he has to be the leading contender. "The four home-based coaches are a starting point and a pretty good starting point. It is unlikely that we will move outside of that, but we will keep an open mind."Feehan added, "We will consider any international coach who points his hand up and wants to be involved. There are strengths and weaknesses of various guys, not necessarily of their coaching but their availability or the level of experience they have had with a given team. "We are going to wait until after the Six Nations and the June tours and then we will go through a process and hope to end up with a head coach at the end of August or the start of September. "In an ideal world we would like to see them free from the point of appointment but you also have to be realistic about things. For example, on the last tour Warren went back and was involved with the Welsh set-up for two weeks through the November Test series." Going into the next six months, it is all to play for.
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