Adopted Lancaster won’t blow his own trumpet

After a week when a ghost from Twickenham came back to haunt him, Stuart Lancaster can point this morning to a rattling reminder of Leinster’s European resurrection.

Just as he rose above Rob Andrew’s cutting accusation of “losing the plot” at the World Cup, so the deposed England coach helped ensure the former champions did the same to Montpellier’s monsters, a gigantic force assembled by the suitably monstrous clout of a Bedouin billionaire.

Rising above that lot takes some doing with a full crew, never mind one stripped of Johnny Sexton, Sean O’Brien, Jamie Heaslip and Rob Kearney, a quartet of Lions with exactly 300 Test appearances between them. Losing their formidable presence and still coming up trumps with a bonus point to boot made Leinster’s the win of the weekend.