Out of the bedlam of the last few days - for bedlam is exactly what it's been - has got to come some sort of order, for there remains a Six Nations title to defend and nobody wants that to go down the pan.

Maybe, just maybe, if Wales beat Ireland in Dublin next week and then follow up with home wins against Italy and France the whole sorry Mike Ruddock affair can be put to one side, though I wouldn't bet on it.

The players, believe it or not, are focused on the job at hand, they are determined to carry on where they left off with the victory over Scotland and they are trying to remain insulated against all the flak that is descending on them.

I don't actually believe they all necessarily wanted Ruddock out, it was more a clash of personalities in some cases and maybe an overseeing sort of role would have been more acceptable.

But what does rankle with everybody is the amount of spin that is being put on the sequence of events and the reasons behind Ruddock's abrupt departure.

It's a bit much just expecting all of us, never mind the fans, to swallow the line that Ruddock went just for domestic reasons.

What about last season and Wales' magnificent Grand Slam winning achievement? Did Ruddock not have pressures on his family then? How about the Autumn series with an unprecedented run of games against all three Southern Hemisphere giants? No strain on his family then?

The pressures just happened to pile in on him, making it impossible for him to continue just two games into another Six Nations campaign, we are asked to believe.

Come off it, we all know there were other factors involved and for WRU and senior officials just to throw out the party line is making monkeys out of all of us and, frankly, not being fair to the people who matter most - the fans.

Of course, they are bewildered. They had no indication anything was wrong at all. Why would they so soon after Wales won the Grand Slam under Ruddock?

A little bit of honesty would not have come amiss, but Ruddock declared he wanted to go for family reasons and the powers-that-be were determined to observe that decision and respect him for it.

But still spare us the platitudes with people like Gareth Thomas, who we all know didn't see eye to eye with Ruddock and left him dangling in mid-air at last week's now notorious Press conference, suddenly paying Ruddock the kind of tribute which frankly reeks of insincerity.

I repeat that had Steve Hansen and David Moffett been in charge none of this would have happened, that heads would have been cracked in the first instance and would have rolled in the second.

Maybe the one lesson to come out of all this is never put Welshmen in charge of Welshmen, for it always ends up in a free-for-all.

Maybe a rough and ready New Zealander like Hansen is good for Welsh rugby after all, as is a hard-nosed administrator like Moffett.

There's just one of them left here after Hansen, Moffett and the much admired fitness chief Andrew Hore have all gone, and that's skills coach Scott Johnson who is now in charge.

He's more off-the-wall than any of the others, but it could work for he has the respect of the players which Ruddock clearly didn't enjoy, and he's a quality backs coach at least.

In a way he's on a hiding to nothing for he's there for just three games, and then he's off, back to Australia for, would you believe, family reasons.

But at least in his case they have been well documented for a long time and he's gone about as far as he could to say he's going without actually saying it.

So we could even see a bonanza over the next few games as Wales might throw caution to the winds. But then what? Now that's another question altogether.

I don't believe Johnson will stay no matter what the results are in the remaining three Six Nations games which leaves regional coaches Gareth Jenkins, David Young, Paul Turner and Lyn Jones if the WRU go down that route or a Welshman outside Wales like Phil Davies.

I'm not sure, however, that going down the Wales route is the best course of action after events of the last few days.

A better idea could be to go down the Souther Hemisphere route again, and I would unhesitatingly go for Nick Mallett, the former South Africa and Stade Francais coach.

He's been there at both levels, commands respect and is well educated with broad horizons.

The WRU have got to move fast though otherwise they will fly to Argentina without a pilot.