Lancaster: England must ‘get the culture right’

ENGLAND’S new interim head coach Stuart Lancaster admitted his first job will be to “get the culture right” in the wake of the country’s World Cup fiasco.

Lancaster will step up from his current dual role of England Saxons coach and head of player development to take charge until a permanent replacement is found.

Graham Rowntree is the only member of England’s senior World Cup management team to be retained while Andy Farrell, the former dual international, has been seconded from Saracens.

Lancaster, who had a watching brief with England during the World Cup, said: “We want to get the culture right, we want to ensure we have a talented group of young players who are hungry for success, who are ambitious, who want to win things and it’s our job as a coaching team to put that in place and to make sure that going forward we’ve got a foundation to build upon toward 2015.”