Kieran Shannon: 'The best teams make changes before change is needed'

Last Saturday week,before he’d oversee Leinster steamroll Connacht in the RDS, Stuart Lancaster popped over to DCU on the other side of town to speak to coaches from all sports and all over the country on the theme of talent development.

It was part of the terrific coach masterclass conference that David Passmore, a lecturer in coaching science at the college as well as a former coach to the national senior hockey team, puts on every year and that is precisely what Lancaster delivered in his one-hour morning slot — a masterclass.