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• Wales must 'show courage and front up' against South Africa, says Gatland

  Warren Gatland has urged Wales to "show real courage and front up" in their final Autumn Nations clash against South Africa.

  Gatland's side bring the curtain down on a disappointing year when they welcome the reigning world champions to the Principality Stadium on Saturday. 

  Wales have lost an unprecedented 11 straight Tests, and could go an entire calendar year without tasting success for the first time since 1937.

  Gatland has made four changes from last weekend's 52-20 defeat to Australia, with Sam Costelow, Rio Dyer, Christ Tshiunza and Taine Plumtree all coming into the starting XV.

  Gareth Anscombe, Aaron Wainwright and Cameron Winnett drop out of the squad, while Adam Beard misses out through injury.

  And Gatland wants his players to demonstrate fighting spirit against the Springboks.

  "Last week's result hurts, and we are just as disappointed by it as the fans," he told reporters during his pre-match press conference.

  "Our focus now is on training and preparing well for our final game of this Autumn Nations Series.

  "There were good elements that we can definitely build on going into Saturday, but we have to improve our accuracy.

  "We know what a quality side South Africa are and the physicality they bring. This week, we need to show real courage and front up against the world champions."

• Wales promotion 'hasn't sunk in' for Bellamy after 4-1 Iceland win

  Wales secured promotion to League A after beating Iceland 4-1 at home in their final Nations League group match, having gone a goal down early on.

  Their victory, alongside a 3-1 defeat for Turkiye away to Montenegro, means that Craig Bellamy's side topped their group by a point.

  "The feeling hasn't quite sunk in yet, but it's been a real positive camp Whatever the result of this game, it's just been a positive camp," said Bellamy after the match.

  "The targets we set right from the start, I feel we've been able to achieve."

  Wales started the day knowing they needed to win and for results to go their way to top the group, but went a goal down after seven minutes after Andri Gudjohnsen followed up from a Danny Ward save.

  It was the first goal Wales had conceded at home in 321 minutes and the first time they had been behind under Bellamy, but they responded well. The hosts managed to control the rest of the half, with Lewis Cullen scoring twice in the final 15 minutes of the first period.

  The determination of his team to stick to the plan was something that pleased Bellamy immensely.

  "There were one or two tests today that I feel we've been able to progress [through]. If they had happened one or two games ago, we might not have been able to.

  "Where we're at, you go 1-0 down in the first few minutes and you get a performance like that.

  "Then after that, when the crowd get a little bit edgy and try to force things for us... No, no. We keep the ball because we believe that's going to benefit us, and the players were able to do that."

  In the second half, Wales were able to dominate and bagged goals from Brennan Johnson and Harry Wilson to make things more comfortable.

  "I thought we took control of the tempo of the game and we're a good team if we're able to do that," said Bellamy.

  On promotion itself, the Wales manager could not overstate the importance of being able to mix with the biggest teams in international football in Europe.

  "For where we want to be and where we want to go, it's huge. It's so important for us," he said.

• 'What will be, will be' – Gatland will respect any decision on Wales future

  Warren Gatland accepts his future is out of his hands after Wales suffered a record-setting defeat to Australia.

  Wales were hammered 52-20 by the Wallabies in Cardiff on Sunday, as Australia scored eight tries in their biggest ever away win over the Welsh.

  It marked an 11th straight Test defeat for Wales, who face world champions South Africa in their next outing.

  Wales are on their worst ever run of defeats, and Gatland knows there is plenty of negativity around his coaching.

  "It's the most challenging time I've ever known as a coach and what will be, will be," Gatland told TNT Sports.

  "I will chat to a few people as to what happens from here.

  "I am passionate about Welsh rugby but there's a lot of negativity around the game right now and we want to make sure what happens is the best for Welsh rugby, not about me. I will respect the decision."

  Gatland is in his second stint in charge of Wales, having led them for 12 years between 2007 and 2019, leading them to four Six Nations titles.

  Yet Wales have been abysmal as of late, and were dispatched by an Australia team that were reduced to 14 men for 20 minutes of the second half.

  "It hurts. We got ourselves back into the game, but to me, we're a man up and conceded three tries - 21 points - that's really disappointing," he added.

  "From our point of view, we had a chance to put them under pressure, we probably just forced things - [conceded] some turnovers, some penalties, so that was disappointing.

  "I felt we had the chance to get ourselves back into it and kind of just shot ourselves in the foot.

  "We spoke about it at half-time, some momentum, go out there and be accurate, we'll get some opportunities and when we play with tempo and keep the ball we look good.

  "[Conceding] 21 points with a man advantage, it's not often that happens."

  Wales prop Gareth Thomas told S4C: "We're all very disappointed after that. We came into the game with a lot of energy, everything was in place coming into the game. We had confidence with the coaches.

  "Our discipline let us down and we're very disappointed. We've let ourselves down. They were down to 14 men and we couldn't take advantage."

  Australia's Tom Wright capped off his hat-trick just before full-time, and he was keen to highlight the Wallabies' dominant display.

  "That was an awesome 80-minute performance," he told TNT Sports. "Ebbs and flows, we gave a lot of momentum to Wales at stages, we made it difficult for ourselves, but those are games you like to be a part of.

  "There was a lot of ball in play, Wales were really up for the content and really made us earn all those points."