Stander: I wanted to flip the table and dance on it

CJ Stander has waited a long time to win his first senior title as a professional rugby player, but he’s waiting another week to celebrate it properly.

The Munster flanker was sitting with his teammates in Dublin last weekend, an hour or so after Ireland dismantled Scotland to put themselves on the brink of a third Six Nations title in five years.

Sitting down to dinner with the Scotland team also in the same room, Stander and company watched France defeat England in Paris to ensure the title went the way of Joe Schmidt’s team, but the reaction was strangely muted given the players were in their suits, rather than their boots.